Wonderful. Now I can appreciate Keith's enthusiasm more. The world is a wonderful thing to observe. One sentence stuck out for me. The one about pencil and ink. It had a parallel from my own life experience. My "Medicine Teacher" once told me there were things that were written as if in water and could easily be changed. There were things that were written like Ink on paper and could not be changed without damaging the paper but that you could if you were willing and persistent. And finally he said there were things written in stone and that would take generations to work through and evolve to a place of stasis. My Medicine Teacher was the High Priest of the Overhill Cherokee people but he was also a Nuclear Refrigeration Engineer for Westinghouse Corporation. Makes me wonder. He had a great love for science.
REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D & N Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 11:08 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: [Futurework] Twins, Nat Geo on nature, nurture and epigenetics Found this at the doctor's office; thought of Keith and Mike S. Natalia http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/01/twins/miller-text (snip) Lately, however, twin studies have helped lead scientists to a radical, almost heretical new conclusion: that nature and nurture are not the only elemental forces at work. According to a recent field called epigenetics, there is a third factor also in play, one that in some cases serves as a bridge between the environment and our genes, and in others operates on its own to shape who we are. The Jim Twins The idea of using twins to measure the influence of heredity dates back to 1875, when the English scientist Francis Galton first suggested the approach (and coined the phrase "nature and nurture"). But twin studies took a surprising twist in the 1980s, following the discovery of numerous identical twins who'd been separated at birth. The story began with the much publicized case of two brothers, both named Jim. Born in Piqua, Ohio, in 1939, Jim Springer and Jim Lewis were put up for adoption as babies and raised by different couples, who happened to give them the same first name. When Jim Springer reconnected with his brother at age 39 in 1979, they uncovered a string of other similarities and coincidences. Both men were six feet tall and weighed 180 pounds. Growing up, they'd both had dogs named Toy and taken family vacations in St. Pete Beach in Florida. As young men, they'd both married women named Linda, and then divorced them. Their second wives were both named Betty. They named their sons James Alan and James Allan. They'd both served as part-time sheriffs, enjoyed home carpentry projects, suffered severe headaches, smoked Salem cigarettes, and drank Miller Lite beer. Although they wore their hair differently-Jim Springer had bangs, while Jim Lewis combed his hair straight back-they had the same crooked smile, their voices were indistinguishable, and they both admitted to leaving love notes around the house for their wives. (snip)
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