I actually spend most of my time talking about sonic hedgehog, and it's companion gene in zebrafish: Tiggy-Winkle.

I think Virginia was talking about the original Princess and the Frog story. The princess drops her ball in a well and a frog offers to get it if she will take him with her to her castle, let him eat off her plate, and let him sleep in her bed. She agrees and then after tries to leave him in the well. But her…

Allison Janney! YAY! I will definitely be seeing this.

You don't understand medical science. So I'm done. You want to argue straw men, fine, but do so without me.

You actually haven't answered any of my questions. And your yelling fire in a theater is a straw man. Having a child is not the same thing as potentially causing a stampede that could lead to deaths.

Octomom and Jon and Kate are anomalies, they are the exceptions, not the standard.

Why do we continue to treat the elderly, try to extend their life spans, and try to increase the functionality they have in their retirement ages? Why do we treat any illness or disease? Why do we thwart nature's attempt to kill us all off when we are past our reproductive prime?

Ahh, this is going to be my costume this year, except I don't have a granny or Red's mom in the mix.

My mom's marriage advice to me: Marry a man who can cook. And I did! He's a better cook than me. And I love watching him cook, because it is seriously sexy, especially the way he can slice and dice those vegetables. Mmmm....

Thank you for that! I always need to see real people because I'm short, and I never have measuring tape nearby when looking up dresses. I need to see where the hem of the dress is going to hit, and the models are too tall for me!

My grad program is the opposite. At least in my year, a lot of the women are married and 3 of them had children while in grad school, but 5 years later, none of the guys are married.

I love The Neverending Story, both the movie and the book. I (like probably most people) saw the movie first and loved it, but the book is definitely deeper and more thoughtful. There is a scene near the end of the second half of the book that makes me tear up.

It sounds like they were trying. They were helping her seek psychiatric care, moving schools and cities when needed. They may have thought she was doing better, but something may have triggered her. A lot of it all went down on Facebook so they might not have been aware of how much was happening.

Then why read the article? Why post here? If you don't care about her, then just move on.

I do too, I kind of wish I had a skirt like that. I also wish I had the body to pull it off, but I don't have a dancer's body type :(

My mom is Jewish and my father is Catholic, but they are divorced now. My mom's been getting back into the dating scene, and she's more interested in dating a Jewish man now. She's not adamant about it, and has dated non-Jews. But she says that for her, it's starting to matter.

I have two copies of Good Omens: one is the first copy I ever got, that I read a million times over (at least once a year); the second is the "good" copy that I have signed by both Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett :) I never read that copy, it must be kept safe.

They are going to be separated? Oh but I watched the video before reading the article, and now I have all these ideas of how Mitik and Pakak are BFFs.

What about something like the right to vote? Technically you are given that right by the government; after all you don't have the right to vote <18 years of age, and then you are given the right when you reach your 18th birthday.

thanks!