when this was active, it sorta defined this person:

straight down, as straight as possible.

if it is, it gets buried amidst his extremely reasonable vitriol toward sacroplasmic hypertrophy. having your main argument be "pretty much the point" of the article is not a sign that it was successful.

HamNo, glad to see you're putting that Sc.B in armchair physiology to good use.

most likely all designations of identity have a genetic basis - certain genetics predispose you to particular identities, so he is not really glib.

Can I quickly diffuse a misconception? This is not an image of DNA (i.e. it is not an x-ray image) This is an x-ray diffraction pattern that indicates helical structure. Unless you are an x-ray crystallographer, you cannot look at this picture and think it's a double helix. From a picture like this, you do a ton of…

you mean reservations

If the plan is to terraform Mars, I'd say we've made the decision as to whether we're trying to keep Mars absolutely pristine.

In principle, this'll be accounted for by brick design i.e. they're not just slabs of bacteria. However, if they were, it wouldn't really matter because most mutations you could cause are innocuous or would kill the cell.

GymPact, fatsos

See A-Trak's response to that article, in which he explains the difference between what deadmau5 does and what a DJ does.

No, there are non-retroviral RNA viruses. See Ebola, Marburg, Influenza, Hep C, etc.

This only works for RNA viruses - RISC wouldn't work for DNA.

This only applies to RNA viruses. RISC doesn't wouldn't work for DNA

While it is true that environmental factors have huge consequences, there are certainly genetic components to how well individuals can remember information, incorporate information, and utilize that information. People who can do these tasks better are deemed more intelligent.

most of my friends are going through this right now and i'm about to, so i hope i've got it right. residency and specialty training are two different things, though some of your residency can be concurrent with your specialty training. surgeons have to do several years post res, called general surgery, and if they…

overshot a little, yeah, but the yearly breakdown is something like

Right, NPs are just as qualified because they receive the same fifteen years post grad training. Good one.