Yeah... this is one of those evolutionary psych moments where they're just totally free-wheeling speculation. Like, how can I come up with a reason that ANYTHING might be an evolutionary advantage?

UGH. I KNOW. I actually had someone tell me that I "needed to get out more" when I mentioned that I had never been out of the country. I'm so sorry that I've been working since I was sixteen and cannot afford to take the time off my hourly wage jobs. At least growing up I felt "normal", but once I was at an Ivy League…

I hated it because it was slooow. So much less material got covered when that material got turned into a group project.

I thought EVERYONE hated cooperative learning? At least, bitching about group projects is pretty gender-neutral. Competitive learning, on the other hand, was the shit. I used to pick one kid in every class to beat. For no reason at all.

I've never understood all of the Taco Bell hate. It feels just like an extension of general weird criticisms of Mexican food—"Mexican... basically dog food amirite?!" I've worked for Taco Bell, and I have friends and relatives who've worked at other fast food joints. It's basically the same shit different business. We…

You're not missing anything. It's one of those things where the idea of the correlation is exciting but the actual meaning of it is sort of "meh". At least as far as I can tell.

If it's any help, my SO made the switch... and it basically involved a LOT of self-study because the classes were often behind the current statistical techniques. It also involved increasingly just refusing to do molecular work. Molecular takes time, and ambitious people don't want to do it because it isn't as…

What they're getting at is that there is no uniform answer to that. Every living thing with a genetic code has some parts of that code that are more actively "read" than other parts, and methylation is one of many tools that the system has for marking what should or shouldn't be "read" and how often. Methylation…

There's certainly something to be said about people demanding medical tests that their history doesn't justify... For example, expert panels in multiple countries have concluded that pap smears need to be done less frequently, and yet many people seem to be psychologically attached to the idea that they need an annual…