If I knew where to do it I would seriously think about it! It would be so beneficial for me in the long run.

Honestly, the ONLY reason I would be interested is that I am definitely disillusioned with the idea of staying in academia - blogging can be a total career killer in research unless you're already well established.

The real problem here is finding someone that can properly express ideas to lay people, so... honestly, most graduate students AND faculty at universities don't really fit this bill (it's a major problem in sciences now). Being a molecular genetics PhD student that's aiming for a career in scientific research and…

Seriously, people who act like twitter isn't a source of news that people take seriously obviously missed out on the whole AP-hacking debacle the other week.

I'm a size 0 when I've got a little pudge going (short and tiny bone structure)... their stuff still was short and horrible. Absolutely all of their clothing is made for people with little fat anywhere - have a butt at all? Skirts are gonna rise up WAY too high in the back.

Less than an hour from me!

Hey, stuff happens. It's hard to stay close to people, especially if you're one of the people who has had to move around thanks to school/career stuff. It's also pretty possible that, like me, all of your best friends are the children of hippies and have decided marriage is ridiculous.

I'm sure it was unintentional, but A+ job at trolling here.

Lucky for you, I have a few South Koreans (not from the US!) on hand at work (science!) and the response of the two I polled was essentially "they pretty much look the same", one of them even made some exasperated comment about plastic surgery.

Slightly defending the noses being identical... the nose type deemed "most attractive" is also the most common in the US... any random sample is going to pull out a lot of people with the same kind of nose. Thinking of people on my floor at work... I would say maybe about 60-70% of individuals have noses that fall…

You're not really that rare. About 10% (at least!) of the population is left handed and about 1/3rd of caucasians in the US are blue eyed. Which makes you no more special than about 3/100 caucasians in the US... not the most common, but certainly not rare. Additionally, thanks to how genetics work, red hair and light…

That's not actually correct. It's the MOST common among certain European groups (notably those of nordic heritage) - but for eastern and southern Europe along with parts of the British Isles it is NOT the most common. This is also DEFINITELY untrue for the United States. The allelic frequencies among caucasians…

I guess I never defined a large number, yeah - it's not a majority or anywhere near it. A change from 4% to 6% unvaccinated is (in fact) a significant and LARGE change. Yeah, I mean, it really also depends on what we're talking about. The rates are usually around 80-95% where it kicks in.

That's because of a LARGE NUMBER. You've gone bellow the point of herd immunity. It's "okay" when there were more people that were vaccinated (like when the OP was in school).

This is true of pretty much every homozygous recessive trait, they require some degree of consanguineous mating to become fixed in a population. It's pretty basic population genetics.

Growing up in Texas, if anything, people were more mystified about how I managed to stay so pale than they were critical about my skin tone.

They probably managed to swing an exemption. Not being vaccinated is pretty alright assuming you're in a population where everyone else is vaccinated - which it's pretty likely your school was over the 80-90% threshold to help protect those kids from many illnesses. It's also possible they might have begrudgingly…

Some churches like these meet in a pastor's basement and have very, very few members. The only one I'm personally familiar with (which was just extremist but accepting of modern medicine) had about 15 actual members and had existed for upwards of 10 years at the time I became familiar with them. They also had outside…

I stayed on them because I have menorrhagia and am essentially physically unable to do work for a week every month without them. I pretty firmly believe that it shouldn't matter WHY someone is taking birth control, but it enrages me when people act like something that is very essential for subset of women to function…

I'm at UMD now thanks to an unfortunate series of events, it's amusing having my undergrad tell me all about Greek life at UMD today.