In a message dated 11/24/2006 7:31:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What I thought Alberto was getting at was how do the
maternal and paternal chromosomes fit together?
Here's my picture of the problem, where the two parents
have different numbers of copies of gene
In a message dated 11/10/2006 5:27:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've known lots of cases in which dogs and cats lived
together. Sometimes they are the best of friends. Sometimes they
just seem to enjoy barking and hissing at each other.
Sounds like my
In a message dated 10/1/2006 11:14:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However, in medicine (as in some other areas) people are suffering
and dying during all those years. Particularly when the established
theory is stress or IAIYH as it was with ulcers as well as
In a message dated 10/2/2006 5:45:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Chaco Canyon have all shared the feature of being
settled in a
marginal environment. Is a marginal environment a
prerequisite for collapse?
Chaco may not have been so marginal at the outset.
In a message dated 9/27/2006 5:44:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Which can take years or even decades. Another example
from medicine that I am hard put to explain, except to
think that no one _wanted_ to believe such a thing was
so widespread, is something that I
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 2:46 PM
Subject: RE: 9/11 conspiracies (WAS RE: What should we believe when there is no
reliable information?)
Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Behalf Of Nick Arnett
Assuming that a
snip
Very cool indeed. Mysteries are what science is
all about.
Even when the suggestions are as..odd..as the one
from m-theory that
our universe has no inherent gravity, it gets it
via leakage from
another universe nearby in m-space, hence why
it's so weak...
Another version is
In a message dated 9/22/2006 9:39:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That natural
selection is *part* of the mechanism is close to certain. But there's
way more to speciation - kin selection, sexual selection, allopatric/
synpatric speciation. We're discovering
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Sent: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: 9/11 conspiracies (WAS RE: What should we believe when there is no
reliab...
On 21/09/2006, at 12:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The similarity is a fact. The
In a message dated 9/18/2006 11:06:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Assuming that a large number of people can't be wrong about something
because they are smart and well-connected is a tautology. I think
there are many examples of large numbers of smart,
In a message dated 9/18/2006 11:43:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry, I phrased that poorly. He was _always_ an
extraordinary, Hall-of-Fame caliber shortstop, because
his hitting more than made up for his atrocious
fielding. His hitting was never quite as good
In a message dated 9/19/2006 1:05:48 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...'cause there's no such thing as something that is so well
supported it can be considered a fact. Like gravity. Just a theory.
Well according to Karl Popper there are no absolute facts in
In a message dated 9/19/2006 4:45:05 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm fairly certain that gravity is a fact.
How it works is a theory.
Finally - that's exactly what I was saying about evolution before.
Same thing.
No disagreement here.
I am not sure
In a message dated 9/18/2006 9:58:12 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
He has,
rather remarkably, gone from being a truly atrocious
shortstop to one who is basically average (he was
significantly better than average last year, I think).
OK - maybe you will grant
Good to here from you. So even though you are clearly wrong about 9/11
(everyone knows that it was a mutant energizer buddy sent by the Bush daughters
because they could not count up to 103 and were therefore insulted by the
towers) I hope you have some more insight into the collapse of
In a message dated 9/17/2006 3:29:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think a key point in the moral tale is the assumption that the population
lived on the island for hundreds of years before the deforestation took
place. This fits well with people who are in touch
In a message dated 9/13/2006 7:26:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All we can say for sure is that if a
living human being requires some sort of spirit
or essence or katra or whatever you call it then
at some point prior to a live birth such an
entity must enter
In a message dated 9/6/2006 7:58:49 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Upon what do atheists base
their morality? I've never been able to understand this. If selection of
the species is determined by survival of the fittest, isn't might the
ultimate good, biologically
In a message dated 9/6/2006 9:32:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Or: how does God Himself decide what is good and evil? Isn't He, at
least, basically in the same position as us atheists?
One of trickiest issues for the notion of god is whether god knows there is
In a message dated 9/3/2006 5:47:11 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This type of change, while certainly having negative consequences, is not a
catastrophe. I'd argue that the potential for disaster from an asteroid hit
is far higher than from global warming.
In a message dated 8/27/2006 8:32:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
First, your theory presumes that manking is capable of having an effect
upon the climate. Yet, you also seem to assume that whatever
intentional effects we have on the conflict will always benign.
In a message dated 8/21/2006 1:24:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You mean you /don't/ want more moist skin, less-noticeable wrinkles
around your eyes, or thicker hair?
I just don't look good in bikini so the other stuff won't help much
In a message dated 8/19/2006 12:44:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Seventy percent of people using the product reported larger breasts
within two months plus additional benefits that included more moist
skin, less noticeable wrinkles around eyes, and thicker
I just disagree with Alberto's statement that ecology is for rich people.
Bangladesh is one of the poorest nations in the world and is most vulnerable
to rising sea levels. Do you think that they’ll be shouting Jobs, not dry
land?
In a sense ecology is for the rich; it is up to
Jim wrote:
I have a bit of a problem with this idea that environmentalism and
economics are mortal enemies. There has to be some middle ground.
In fact, in the long run, environmentalism makes good business sense. The
problem is that so many businesses in this country don't take
In a message dated 8/2/2006 1:31:04 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Montana's problems are somewhat interesting. We can understand and
empathize with them because we face many of the same kinds of problems.
In comparison with the disaster that occurred on Easter
In a message dated 7/26/2006 10:27:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyway, the Biological Species Concept, as with every single other
way of defining species, has weaknesses. With this one, it's that it
assumes sexual reproduction, so asexual organisms are hard
In a message dated 7/27/2006 7:33:32 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Doesn't this definition fail to account for species that reproduce
asexually?
Very few plant and animal species reproduce asexually of course. Some
reproduce asexually some of the time but very
In a message dated 7/25/2006 11:08:02 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My point, though, was simply that at that point they would clearly no
longer be human they would be something else, by definition.
One of the problems with your mode is thinking is the by
Just a note. The Darwin exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in
New York is nearing the end of its run. If it comes to a museum near you (or
you will be in NY before the end of the summer) I urge all of you to see it.
The most amazing part of the exhibit are the transmutational
In a message dated 7/26/2006 7:06:45 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If Biological Law is the survival of the more fit, then we
don't obey this Law. Sometimes, what happens is the survival of
the _less_ fit.
Biologic laws are not like the laws of physics (at least
In a message dated 7/26/2006 8:46:20 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can you tell the difference between something that looks like a
person and has a soul and something that looks like a person and doesn't?
Oh my god the philospher's zombie just showed up.
In a message dated 7/26/2006 10:15:35 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So souls can be combined as well as created? Or do identical twins share
a soul?
In addition the twining process does not take place at inception so if one
has identical twins when was the
In a message dated 7/24/2006 11:05:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is an argument that as they are independent and an immortal
cell line, that they could be considered an example of a speciation
event, but all that means is that we've chosen to call them
In a message dated 7/25/2006 12:22:50 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, it's murder to kill a twin... if they've been born. But look at
the developmental mess that twinning can result in, and the ethical
conundra that result. Conjoined twins, parasitic twins.
In a message dated 7/23/2006 7:17:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do the cells *really* have human DNA? The wikipedia mentions their
extraordinary reproductive properties - don't these properties
necessitate some sort of change in the DNA? After all, if you took
In a message dated 7/22/2006 2:28:44 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That link is broken, but I've seen polls that indicate that sort of denial
of facts by Republicans. I also have seen it by Democrats. All it
indicates to me is that it is not unusual for folks to
i read it last year but would be interested in discussion
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Collapse...
Doug said:
Is anyone interested in reading and discussing this Jared Diamond book on
list? I
semi regular - I lurk a lot and come out in bursts when things I know about
(very few actually) or I care about are discussed.
I am 60 years old (how did that happen). I have two children 22 and 16. My
dad died last Friday of Alzheimer's Disease.He had a long decline but was well
taken
In a message dated 7/3/2006 3:51:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's a mathematical certainty that that person existed, said Steve
Olson, whose 2002 book Mapping Human History traces the history of the
species since its origins in Africa more than 100,000 years
In a message dated 6/27/2006 10:02:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The conspiracy theory is, as far as I can tell, that some very powerful
folks wanted to scare Americans. They got wind of the AQ plot. They
thought that flying planes into the WTC, which would
In a message dated 6/28/2006 1:13:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And what parts of the brain are used during conversation? I'd be
wanting to know that before I drew any conclusions about anything.
(Sorry if someone has already covered this, I'm way behind)
In a message dated 6/28/2006 5:48:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Would earplugs work for you? You can get those at the drugstore year
'round.
anything to protect me from cancer.
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In a message dated 6/27/2006 12:31:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How much control do you think that the terrorists had? While the hijacker
pilots did have a bit of training, it's hard to imagine that they would be
able to do a much better job of hitting the
It isn't whether it can penetrate it is how much penetrates, what is the energy
of the penetrating em signal and where the penetration occurs. The study does
not by the way prove that the em signal penetrates into the brain; the TMS
signal may be affected by superficial stuff so the phone em
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From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:10:11 -0500
Subject: Re: Cell Phone Signal Excites Brain Near the Cell Phone
At 01:49 PM Monday 6/26/2006, Charlie Bell wrote:
On 26/06/2006, at 9:33
In a message dated 6/26/2006 3:16:06 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Actually, it's a first order approximationnot a straw man. First, we
know that the rate of cancer caused by the EM fields within the brain is,
at most, the total rate of brain cancer. I think
In a message dated 6/26/2006 3:45:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Which, IIRC, have been now shown to have an effect, albeit low level.
But the effect is completely different than the effect needed to produce
cancer. Remember the brain produces em radiation
In a message dated 6/26/2006 5:56:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
EM radiation DOES cause cancer and cell damage and physical trauma.
Go lie out naked in the sun for a while, you'll see.
It's whether *these frequencies* at *this power* can cause damage
that is
In a message dated 6/26/2006 10:51:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2) The planes did hit the building, but explosive charges were set
off in
the floors that they hit.
Bingo, and it resides as a suspicion, not a belief. None of the
official explanations
Shocking, just shocking. :-)
Dan M.
And the second time you use it, it'll be revolting.
But, the third time you use it, you will get a charge out of it. :-)
Dan M.
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And the 4th time you use it stops working because the grease from
In a message dated 5/28/2006 8:27:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(1) virus ( ) alive ( ) not alive.
(2) BSE prion ( ) alive ( ) not alive.
(Choose one and only one answer to each question.)
The problem with this sort of argurement is that it assumes that
In a message dated 5/28/2006 8:50:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Did you stay for the coda, or did you wimp out with the majority of
mindless
Marveless minions who walked out when the credits started rolling?
Well since I don't remember what I stayed for am
cool
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From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Fri, 12 May 2006 07:16:14 -0700
Subject: Re: Elegant science (was Re: Scientific methodology)
On 5/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand the
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From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:29:18 -0700
Subject: Re: Elegant science (was Re: Scientific methodology)
On 5/12/06, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll try again: Direct
In a message dated 5/11/2006 10:46:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To expand on that a bit... Science also depends on a notion of elegance.
Look at superstring theory, for example. We have no accelerators that come
close to producing the sort of energy necessary to
In a message dated 5/11/2006 11:45:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think Zimmy was saying that, since the physics indicates that the power
from mobile phones is not sufficient to affect the brain, he has a
heightened skepticism concerning the report of damage found.
My experience with MRIs comes mostly from having my head examined,
but I'm pretty sure that the room is a Faraday cage to contain the
substantial RF output, so it would be just about impossible to make a
cell phone work in there. You'd probably have to build a cell inside
the room (or use
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From: Jo Anne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:00:54 -0700
Subject: Re: Study: Cell-Phone Radiation Affects/ Ten Year Anniversary/Nesty
birds
Dr Bob Wrote:
I am just very skeptical of all this. The radiation from a cell phone
-Original Message-
From: Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:09:31 + (UTC)
Subject: Re: Optimism for the USA
... I'm not really sure what you are trying to get across? The
supreme deity as omnipotent? That's been around
Q. for Dr. Z. or anyone else who may have the necessary expertise: Is there any
way for a subject to use a cell phone while undergoing a cranial MRI? For that
matter, is there any type or frequency of EM radiation that a cell phone
produces which is more powerful than that which would
In a message dated 4/25/2006 8:11:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm content to let it remain a mystery. Like many other things, I don't
think that whether or not it is literal truth would make any difference in
the way I live my life. I often wonder what it is that
In a message dated 4/25/2006 9:49:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For what it's worth, I think it is true, in some mysterious way, that the
universe was created in six days. But I don't think that it really happened
that way
what the hell does this mean?
Incompleteness
Rebecca Goldstein
Atlas books 2005
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From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:59:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: three paradigm shifts?
Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said
Animals
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From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Z_Brin brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:42:58 -0500
Subject: Depleted Uranium, Floridated Water, and Bisphenol Food Wrapping
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C8122-1596301%2C00.html
Food wrap linked to
Which book was that? Just wondering.
Julia
I am away from home. I will send you the name next weekend
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So how do you explain cats?
Cats are a perfect example of non-domestication. We have certainly bred them to
be smaller and tamer but they are not domesticated in the way that dogs are
domesticated. They do not connect with humans in the same way.
-Original Message-
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:38:27 -0200
Subject: Re: Great Sam Harris Interview
The Fool, in a sudden religious zeal, wrote:
I believe only in the purity of math. Everything
Acoustic neuromas are slow-growing noncancerous tumors that develop on
a nerve linking the brain and the inner ear.
Technically these tumors are more accurately called vestibular schwannomas
(They arise from the vestibular branch (balance controlling) rather than the
cochlear (hearing
Q. for Dr. Z: Is an acoustic neuroma considered a type of brain tumor? (Based
on what I have read on the subject, ISTM the answer is No, but then IANAMD,
nor do I play one on TV . . . )
It is not a tumor of the brain but rather a tumor arising from cells (schwann
cells) that cover nerves
In a message dated 4/2/2006 8:40:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alternative hypothesis explaining the correlation between brain
tumors and cell phone use which afaik the study has not ruled
out: it is the behavioral effects of a pre-existing brain tumor
which
In a message dated 4/3/2006 4:54:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From my experience, I recommend a nice Mixed Oligo-Astrocytoma of
the frontal lobe over, for example, Anaplastic Ependymoma. The
former, in my experience, is a happy little indolent tumor that is
In a message dated 3/31/2006 6:28:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A total 85 of these 905 cases were so-called high users of mobile
phones, that is they began early to use mobile and, or wireless
telephones and used them a lot, the study said.
The study also shows that
In a message dated 3/11/2006 2:05:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
writes:
anyone else read it yet?
Yes - I enjoyed it. Cool world; good ending.
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In a message dated 3/6/2006 6:05:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I'll go ahead and ask you now. What do you think about minicolumns?
I think I don't know anything about minicolumns unless you are talking about
really about gossip sites that deal only with vertically
In a message dated 3/6/2006 6:05:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
go ahead and ask you now. What do you think about minicolumns?
I read something about them that cited
http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/bhj134?ijkey=WZG8KUzGqERqQub;
keytype=ref
-Original Message-
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:35:27 -0600
Subject: Re: Hello (hello, hello)
(Yawn) I was just napping, really.
Might go back to in, in fact.
Zzzz
(Speaking of Z,
In a message dated 2/20/2006 7:05:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just watched the tape. Really cool stuff. And
now I have a face
to put with the e-mail voice . .
Well actually I told Gibson it was the coolest shit. .
I was scanning the Fri am newsfotainment
In a message dated 2/21/2006 9:21:42 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I didn't get to see you on the tv, but did find the scan pic/article on ABC
and it is way cool. Being buried back in school for a clinical
doctorate,
I can really see how exciting this is.
In a message dated 2/17/2006 10:24:15 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just watched the tape. Really cool stuff. And now I have a face
to put with the e-mail voice . . .
Thanks - but didn't you know what Charlie Gibson before?
In a message dated 2/17/2006 11:03:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are you familiar with the brain imaging done by Dr. Daniel Amen on
ADD/ADHD? There seem to be varying opinions about its meaningfulness... but
your images certainly reminded me of what he shows.
I am going to be on Good Morning America tomorrow (around 7:40 am est they tell
me) talking about a nre brain imaging technique called Diffusion Tensor Imaging
- just about the coolest thing to come down the pike in neuroimaging in the
last few years (neater in my opinion than fMRI). Of
In a message dated 2/14/2006 12:06:39 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What I found interesting about the first two books was not the SF
portions of it nearly as much as the *human* portions. The stories of
the pilgrims were all gripping, and that's what I liked about
In a message dated 1/17/2006 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You must have been spared the cliche of your parents starting to ask
on your wedding day how soon they could expect to become grandparents.
Au contrarie mon ami. I was not all spared this event.
In a message dated 1/16/2006 4:56:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Somewhere I've heard that the biological drive to procreate can only
be completely satisfied by grandchildren. :-) I have quite a few
years
to wait before first-hand experience.
There a sense in
-Original Message-
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 08:57:24 -0200
Subject: Re: meta research
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
But that was not the question. The question was more basic. There
were two
-Original Message-
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:33:33 -0700
Subject: Re: Brave New Genetic Frontiers
On Sep 25, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Leonard Matusik wrote:
How about this question... How probable would it be
The secret ingredient appears to have been sex. Asexual reproduction, in
addition to being rather boring, doesn't introduce anywhere near the
possibility for diversification of a genome like sex does. So somewhere around
700 to 1000 million years ago, life discovered this new way to do
-Original Message-
From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:29:17 +0100
Subject: Re: or Something REALLY different / was: Brave New Genetic
Frontiers
Warren said:
ALL trilobites were killed off in the
In a message dated 9/25/2005 4:58:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Only selection determines that those with high net reproduction rates
each generation reproduce so that what was improbable becomes
probable.
It seems to me that a good way to think about this is How
In a message dated 9/24/2005 8:03:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can blind cave fish could result purely from random mutations (among
several sub species no less)? I believe that several billion tetras must have
been sucked into Mexican caves in order for random
Sorry if I seem so contentious on the point but I repeat, the vehement
reliance of natural selection as a mechanism for macro-Evolution has
stiffled the quest for truth in this arena for a century (and still does!)
This the standard arguement against natural selectioin. It is used
In a message dated 9/10/2005 7:13:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, do we influence our own evolution in the same fashion?
Yes.
YES.
Yes!
And no.
Both; all four.
Unfortunately the most likely effect of our environmental impact will be our
own
In a message dated 9/2/2005 10:49:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But, if there is
a shortage, and prices are kept constant, what, besides rationing or gas
lines, would reduce demand to the level of supply? This isn't a rhetorical
question, I can't think of another
In a message dated 9/1/2005 11:03:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PS: with all the reproductive isolation we've foisted upon dogs (not
to mention rats!) Why haven't we created any new species?
We have. Dogs _are_ an artificial creation of Humanity
They are a
In a message dated 9/2/2005 5:50:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Price controls
are almost always a bad idea. They've always been a
bad idea. They're the idea of people who think that
they are somehow morally exempt from the laws of
supply and demand, a position
In a message dated 8/22/2005 11:59:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However, the issue I have with your contentions (to the extent they
refer to me) is that you seem to be suggesting I have insensitivity to
subtle bigotries as suffered by a particular group, which (to
In a message dated 8/20/2005 9:30:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, it's not... quantum mechanics is a reasonable, scientific theory. The
Jews-run-the-world idea is a paranoid goofball conspiracy theory. That
makes
all the difference. I believe the latter is
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