I agree. The only things my husband wasn't involved in was the dress shopping and flowers (but I had no interest in flowers either, my mother dragged to along for that). But he was most concerned with the photographer (he is one, so had very exacting tastes), the venue, menu and DJ. And his suit of course. Most of…

Heh, I had an argument with my ex-boyfriend once, after we broke up, as we were talking on AIM. He accused me of not "being personable online" because I didn't use enough emoticons. That was the moment I was really happy I ended the relationship.

My best friend and her mom read together every night until she was in high school. Years later my mom admitted that she always felt like a bad mother because she didn't read to me. I reminded her that I hated having people read to me, I preferred to read myself, so I wouldn't let her read to me. Now however I love…

I don't get the bubble popping one. I think popping bubbles is just as fun as blowing bubbles, and bubbles will just pop on their own anyway. I'd probably be the kid who'd want to just blow a lot of bubbles and let someone else pop them all for me (cause blowing the bubble and popping it myself seems like a lot of…

It's YA, but The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt makes me cry every time. As a warning though, it contains scenes of child abuse, so be careful reading it. I still reread it once a year though.

What was the last movie shown? With the woman falling on the steps in winter? I swear those steps look like my college.

Well I haven't had a chance to read it, and I imagine others hadn't as well. You could have stopped with "Not only will it surely be too violent." and left out the parentheses and still have made your point.

Have you ever been to Baltimore? Or actually know anything at all about the city? I'm betting no.

For my brother and myself it was not because our public high school was bad (it was a decent school) but we were pretty well ignored by teachers, and I was having problems with students in my school. My private school was a lot smaller, so I got more personal attention; it helped me become more confident in myself…

It's a very emotional thing to be unable to have children and turn to surrogacy. To then be unable to bond with the child as a parent? They've already suffered heart break after heart break. I completely understand.

My husband and I went on our honeymoon last October...on our second anniversary. It was funny explaining to people that we were on our honeymoon, but had already been married for 2 years.

exactly, as long as they are in uniform they are on duty, that means not having consensual sex and not playing strip poker. If you want to do that, wait till your shift ends.

Oh man, I knew I should have read the comments before voting, I would have changed my votes just cause of your comment!

You are right, I think this is an important step forward. (I'm a geneticist, so I love to contribute to science talk time :)

Just a correction: it's not 100% risk. Your cells contain hundreds of mitochondria and each mitochondria contains many copies of the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA). You can have both "mutated" and "normal" copies of the mtDNA which can be passed down to the offspring. During cell division, stochastic movement of the…

@ The_Cow_Palace:

Thank you! I get so frustrated with sensationalist science news articles.

My husband's pharmacy made a big mistake with his prescriptions last July. He has cluster headaches, and was given 2 prescriptions from the doctor: one was for blood pressure medication that he was supposed to take once a day, to hopefully reduce the number of headaches, the other was extra strength ibuprofen for…

@girl_talk: I understand. It's hard because there's still a lot we don't know about how different genes affect neurological function. And not all (or even most) alterations are even in genes, which just complicates things further. Anyway, sorry to have nitpicked, I'm a geneticist, so concept of a perfect genome is…

@girl_talk: Slightly nitpicky but nobody is genetically perfect. More than likely it's just that any differences in your brothers genome are small polymorphisms that haven't currently been linked to any neurological problems. But everyone harbors "mutations" in their genome, there is no such thing as genetic…