Wasn't there an article about how sometimes spoilers can increase the enjoyment of a novel? in other words, share the title please? I don't mind being spoiled!

Where's your swimming buddy? Everyone hold their swimming buddy's hand please!

It's due to epigenetics, and imprinting. Basically there are genes in which the maternal copy is inactivated and the paternal copy is activated, and vice versa. If you tried to make a disomic sperm into an embryo it won't differentiate into the differentiate. If you make a disomic egg it makes it to the blastocyst…

You need 46 chromosomes. The egg contains 23 chromosomes. The other 23 chromosomes come from the sperm. The cell can't handle a monosomy, which is the term for having only 1 of a particular chromosome, such as having only a single Chromosome 16. Disomy refers to having two copies of a chromosome and trisomy refers…

I'm not the only one! It also resulted in me failing swimming tests all the time because it was not an acceptable way to swim.

The talking loudly to drown out his oppponents voice wasn't what pissed me off. What really made me angry was his assertation that Soledad was just parroting what the white house said. It sounded as though he didn't believe that she could have read the facts and come to her own conclusion. And I really wonder if he…

For the record, I agree with Phyllis. You sound like you are trying hard to give your kid the best support possible. My old boss had a kid who was a really picky eater, and would just not eat if he didn't like it. And it's all well and good to say "let the kid starve" when it's not your kid, but he was already at…

I've been a couple times. It's fun and goofy. I like the music. I've been to both the show and the concert, and enjoyed both very much.

My boss was away for a week once, so we didn't have our weekly friday afternoon meeting. So I got the whole lab together and decided we'd drink beer in the break room and watch a movie. Had to be something on Netflix, and a couple people said they liked animated movies. So I choose The Iron Giant. Everyone loved…

It's really variable. For all the horror stories I've heard, my department is the opposite. Of the 12 female grad students who started my year (11 + me), 6 are currently married (including me), and 3 of those 6 have had children while still in grad school. Two of the 6 were married prior to starting grad school,…

My husband might end up a stay at home dad. He's trying to get his photography business working, and if we can work it right, he can take care of the (currently non-existent) children during the week and work on his photography as a part time thing at night and on weekends. And if it doesn't work, well he'll be an…

That's actually a running joke between my friend Kevin and myself. He likes to turn to me and say "you know, you killed my god." And I say "he was asking for it" (or something else to that effect.

My husband doesn't have a facebook account. It's not that he is a sociopath, or that he has no personality, or that he's super pretentious. He just never made an account when it was early on, and now he finds it really funny not to have an account. It means that all his friends friend me instead, and I get all the…

oh kinja, how you do love your double posts.

I think the no cable comparison is not as valid now that so much is available through the web. We also dropped cable because we watch a lot of shows on netflix and hulu. It doesn't mean I don't watch a lot of tv still (too much really, but I still have 2 seasons of How I Met Your Mother, 4 seasons of Supernatural,…

I really can't stop laughing at your story. That's the funniest thing I've heard. Does your family still give your brother hell for that? That's the type of story that gets told to all girlfriends and potential girlfriends.

I went to an all woman's college (7 Sisters!) and I loved my experience. I honestly don't think I missed out on anything. There were men on campus, I had male professors, so I got enough of the "male perspective" so anyone argueing that I must have come out unprepared to the male dominated world? Well I'm in a…

Oooh, that would be amazing. Maybe something more along the lines of Dream Hunters? That way you can have a couple large pictures, next to a page of text.

Agreed. I could see buying a print of that. I don't know where I would hang it, but it's haunting.

Judo! That makes me feel happy.