Dude, I have a plate of cells growing in the lab incubator. They are replicating, they grow and divide and replicate their DNA, and respond to stimuli. When I culture cardiomyocytes, some of them even beat. Am I a murderer for throwing them in the trash when I'm finished with my study? A torturer for treating them…

At the risk of trying to reason with you (an irrational and possibly anti-semitic catholic?): I have a PhD in human genetics. I am aware of the difference between viable and nonviable embryos, chromosomal abnormalities, and genetic mutations. A single-cell embryo does not always "know" that it is "incapable of human…

Fertilization is the union of egg and sperm, not sure how or why that is up to debate in the "christian community". You are free to believe that life begins at conception, but if you define conception as when the sperm penetrates the egg, as do medical doctors and scientists, then it should be pretty clear that many…

I would totally have worn the one on the far right as my wedding dress, and I want to live in a world where I can wear the orange one in the middle to dinner this Friday.

Us womenfolk can be scared as shit of babies too - we didn't have the manual loaded into our brains at birth, and those of us who were raised in feminist households weren't "groomed" to be mommies either. Stop worrying about what would or wouldn't be frowned upon and try to be the best partner you can be.

But the life begins at conception people don't parse between "viable" and "nonviable" embryos; they say life begins at fertilization, full stop. If one of those genetically defective eggs *were* to attach - and that does, unfortunately, happen - these people would be vehemently against the parents' choice to abort…

This is always my #1 weapon for "life begins at conception" lunatics, but most of them don't have a great track record of understanding basic science so I doubt this nugget of libtard elite lamestream media info would make a difference...

I'm like that too, but I think part of this is a symptom of everyone else shaving a few pounds off of their weight. I'm 5'4'' 140 and usually wear size 4-6; whenever I tell people my weight or even get weighed at the drs office people act surprised - I guess because I don't "look" my weight, whatever the F that means?

That is flat out wrong. Increased maternal age increases the risk for miscarriage, full stop. A woman's eggs are finite, so the older we get the older our eggs get, with a higher chance for genetic abnormalities in those eggs that result in a nonviable embryo.

Wow, that seems incredibly progressive. I've never met a Mennonite IRL, so I just went along with the pop-culture definition of Mennonite as someone who refuses to get an email account or something - and articles like this don't do much to inform me otherwise. Your church sounds great to this agnostic :)

If you don't mind me asking, how were you raised Mennonite but liberal? Genuinely curious!

Are you referring to "spots" in graduate programs or for funding? As far as a career-track "spot", I think people drop out of the race for tenure track for many reasons - which is unavoidable, since the ratio of open positions vs postdocs is discouraging to say the least. It is unfortunate that tenure track is pursued…

Disgusting. I involuntarily make my "there's a nasty smell in the fridge" face every time something about him comes up in the news.

I know - mine was a beginner's class too! I remember when my Mom would go to yoga when I was a kid, she would go in sweats and Tshirts with her friends, sometimes my Dad - it was an "uncool" granola thing to do but she loved it. She doesn't go any more; we'll do DVDs at home.

I was once pose-shamed at a SF yoga studio filled with lulu barbies: "this is how NOT to do the warrior! ahhahahahah". I now do my own damn stretches in my tattered running shorts at a gym filled with normal people.

I have watched every episode from seasons 3-5 to death - it's my happy place - and although my first reaction to this was "NOOOOOO!" tom haverford style, now that I've thought about it I agree. The only thing worse than your favorite show ending is it dying a slow, painful, embarrassing death. Hopefully this will be…

I just wrote in another thread that the Zella brand from Nordstrom is like lulu lemon, but priced a bit more reasonably. Plus they're on sale now.

replying to say that their version of the classic lulu yoga pant is usually $60, on sale now for $40...

Nordstrom's has a lululemon-like brand called Zella that I actually prefer to lulu lemon; it's not cheap really, but not as expensive - and they carry plus sizes! They've got some on sale right now - capris for $28!

I figure the default gift is always cash. I've come across those money registries and just feel like they are really in-your-face; like know duh I can give you money, most people will get the hint if you don't have a registry. If it's an Italian, Asian, Middle Eastern, etc wedding we'll bring an envelope and/or a…