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    Bacillus cereus!

    Also they are invariably scientifically illiterate, which is worse than the tee-hee-math-is-hard inanity IMO.

    Here's a summary for you:

    THANK YOU. 'Has a sense of humor' means 'yours matches mine, so we make *each other* laugh.' Not 'I yearn to be the goggling, slack-jawed, captive audience for your endless monologues.'

    Also a possibility; or perhaps the truth is somewhere in between (e.g. there is something pleasurable about fugu for the dolphins, even if only the somatic tingling that humans get from low doses as well AND they accidentally took too much).

    Well, I'd say the answer is 'yes' (actually the question was rhetorical in the first place for reasons well articulated by KrzyScientist) because video evidence of dolphins in an apparently altered state after puffer fish consumption trumps any amount of data on ttx obtained in distantly related species.

    But is it possible that ttx could work differently on the dolphin brain? Humans don't get high on catnip either e.g.

    A. So what? It's vanishingly unlikely that those 15 people would be random outliers with the unusual ability to synthesize vitamin D from sunlight when most of their peers could not

    A. Your doctor is wrong

    Only the folate, iron, and DHA in the prenatal have been studied and demonstrated to have benefits. The rest of the contents are just thrown in there because, well, whatever.

    Um. What about 15 minutes a day of sun exposure (no sunscreen, preferably in the AM)? That will probably do a lot more for your mood and general health than a vitamin D supplement.

    The parts of the prenatal that have demonstrated health benefits are the folic acid (reduces neural tube defects), the iron (only for those women with demonstrated iron deficiency anemia - but that's very common), and the DHA (some cognitive benefits for the baby I think).

    There are two types of IUD.

    Stanford's got a center dedicated to the study of empathy

    Where do you live? Trader Joe's (at least in my area) sells something called Cream Top Milk which I think is pasteurized but not homogenized. The Whole Foods near me also sells pasteurized, non-homogenized milk from Straus Farms.

    1. Nice. Perhaps the Aka would say that our society is the exception that proves their rule? There is a large spectrum of childcare arrangements across societies. The Aka are on one end of that and we are on the other.

    Traditional gender roles vary greatly depending on the society. Take a look at the role of Aka men with respect to childcare if you think Western traditional gender roles are some kind of biological imperative.

    Huh? Did we read the same article?

    We agree that the wage gap is not due to explicit discrimination.