I just read this a couple weeks ago and really liked it. I had a few problems with the end, but overall I think it was really interesting. It played with the concept of self quite a bit. How you can have a self that's divorced from your body, and so even when jumping into other bodies, A still thought of…

When I was in 8th grade we read The Giver. That book was a gateway drug for me, leading into reading 1984, Brave New World, and many others. There are good YA books out there, and there's nothing wrong with giving kids something they might find more accessible that will spark an interest in something more.

I watched it earlier this year. I was a little disappointed, but I think that was because it was over-hyped for me. So many people told me it was the best show EVER, and it was funny, but not overwhelmingly so. But I have found that certain scenes and jokes have stuck with me, and I now reference it more than I…

My husband is one of those guys who has no problem shopping with me. He'll go through the store picking out things he thinks I might like or that he might like to see me in, and then waits by the dressing room so I can try things on and walk out for his opinion. He also is very honest with me about what he thinks…

I know it was a joke, but I thought you might be interested anyway.

It wasn't that the rest was filler. We've known for awhile that regulatory regions existed. And promoters, and silencers, and non-coding RNA. But there was still DNA that was thought to be non-functional. There are a lot of pseudo genes and truncated genes. These are genes that at some point were duplicated, and…

I think it's hard to figure out with just numbers. After my parents divorced my mom was a single mother of 2 working on a teachers salary. Less than $50,000/year definitely (and my dad was on disability so not much money there). But my grandparents were wealthy, my grandfather sold his business when he retired…

Thank you, you put this much more eloquently than I could. Also the work I do is all about studying genetics during early development. I need to use whole animal, just a cell culture won't work. And I can't use modeling because we don't know what is going on. I don't use mice, but rather zebrafish, to study what…

So I prefer beer, preferable a stout. What vagina goes best with that?

Well that made me laugh a lot. Thank you :)

Did he line up a bunch of women and take detailed notes about their vaginas or something? I'm imaging a line up with him carrying a clip board going "melanin content noted...color noted, size of labia and depth noted. Hmm, still need to get a temperature, let me grab my meat thermometer..."

The group is out of Stanford, and, according to the article, stated no conflicts of interest.

I actually did believe this when I was young (like <12 years old). I think my Hebrew school teacher may have taught me that. I don't know how long I believed it (not past 12, that's when I became an atheist).

Sorry for the multiple replies. I attached the two figures from the paper. I'm not convinced. There is a very small effect size, and only in the group treated <6months was there an odds ratio where the confidence interval didn't overlap 1.

Figure 2: Adjusted odds ratios of <6 months (a), 6–14 months (b) and 15–23 months (c) antibiotic exposure for overweight and obesity at 38 months and 7 years. 95% confidence intervals represented in lines, and point estimate represented as bullet. All multivariable models included birth weight, maternal parity, race,…

Figure 1:Multivariable associations of <6 months (a), 6–14 months (b) and 15–23 months (c) antibiotic exposure and body mass outcomes (WHO weight-for-length Z-score <2 years; BMI Z-score greater than or equal to2 years). Exposure window shaded for contemporaneous comparison of children who were exposed and not exposed…

Its times like these that really make me appreciate my limited sex ed classes. They didn't provide tons of information, but they were better than this. We had a nurse come in and talk to us about STDs and masturbation (and she made sure to tell us that it was a myth that too much masturbation caused blindness), we…

They look like big, good, strong hands.

I wonder what the added expense would be. And if their families, who might be willing to pay for college in Iran, would be just as willing to send them to foreign schools.