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Yeah, sort of like the accidental incest app that they have out in Iceland Bump Before You Hump.

Yes, this is a real problem. The example I heard was of a young guy that hooked up with someone, and then literally bumped into her at a family reunion two weeks later.

Using LinkedIn and Facebook may be perceived these says as a practical necessity for many people, of course. There is such a thing as social networking effects. But using them is still overall a bad thing for society -- even ignoring the personal mental health effects: https://www.medicaldaily.com/s...

Essentially, profiling (or ratting on) your colleagues and friends/family and defining all your relationships to them to a central authority on an ongoing basis is in some sense immoral in a democracy when other decentralized alternatives exist (e.g. email, IRC, personal websites,and more). It is immoral because it pushes too much power (as information) into a few centers instead of keeping that power decentralized across society. It does not matter if those centers are industrial or governmental.

Giving up such information voluntarily to big central authorities is the kind of thing that anyone who went to public school in the 1960s or 1970s would have been taught reflected the values of Soviet Russia and its pervasive intelligence apparatus (e.g. listening in on all phone calls) -- not the values of a democratic USA.

As Mark Zuckerberg himself said, it is just dumb:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/...
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks

Of course, given such a high level of informational immorality over the past decade (trading privacy for convenience), the world indeed may have changed. It is possible there is no going back -- even as various people, myself included, have worked towards more decentralized communication alternatives.

Instead, we may have to consider, say, David Brin's "Transparent Society" as a different option. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Of course, there is likely a healthy balance of meshwork and hierarchy needed, so not all one or the other:
http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/me...
"Indeed, one must resist the temptation to make hierarchies into villains and meshworks into heroes, not only because, as I said, they are constantly turning into one another, but because in real life we find only mixtures and hybrids, and the properties of these cannot be established through theory alone but demand concrete experimentation."

No easy answers... But a big potential problem...

See also for the past:
https://ibmandtheholocaust.com...
"IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing throughout World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s."

And for the present and near future, China's Social Credit system:
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
"Chinaâ(TM)s social credit system, a big-data system for monitoring and shaping business and citizensâ(TM) behaviour, is reaching beyond Chinaâ(TM)s borders to impact foreign companies, according to new research. The system, which has been compared to an Orwellian tool of mass surveillance, is an ambitious work in progress: a series of big data and AI-enabled processes that effectively grant subjects a social credit score based on their socia

Children who learn to read earlier do better in life later on. Most of that learning happens at home, prior to formal schooling. The most successful students learn to read at home from parents who demonstrate that they value reading as a skill; if a student doesn't see that, he is less likely to value reading himself. Teachers make much less of an impact than parents.

Just because you think you're not distracted by all that doesn't make it so. Studies have shown that talking on a headset can be just as distracting as talking on a handheld.

Also, I know people who smoked a pack of cigarettes every day for FIFTY YEARS, and didn't get cancer. That doesn't mean cigarettes don't cause cancer, it means they were just very lucky.

Similarly, you've just been very lucky not to have been in an accident, and now you're being cocky about it, as if it's some special skill you have.

The FDA barely does anything. Companies send their own fake research in. http://www.medicaldaily.com/ph... posted AC as I used mod points in this thread - TheCastro

Did U Know?

Life expectancy is higher for liberals than conservatives? And life expectancy is going down for Red State voters and up for Blue State voters. So it'll all work out for the best.

http://www.medicaldaily.com/li...

There is ongoing Medical Study that seems to indicate that interruptions can spark and/or sharpen creativity.

It really depends what you read, you are right the first thing you get when google the difference between sociopath and psychopath is the are synonyms, however if you click on the link it actually goes on to describe differences like psychopath is genetic and sociopath is nurture. Psychopath is dangerous, sociopath is crazy.

from http://www.medicaldaily.com/wh... the top link

Psychologists tend to break down the two groups by certain factors, and they have a lot in common. Both tend to be charming, despite being unable to empathize normally with others. They offer convincing systems of fear and disgust, but tend to lack both. Here’s the crux, though: Psychopaths cross the line. Sociopaths may hole up in their houses and remove themselves from society, while a psychopath is busy in his basement rigging shackles to his furnace.

If you go a little further (the 3rd link down) you can find from psychology today https://www.psychologytoday.co... which I assume is a reasonably authoritative source, you get a description more like the Joker/Dexter argument, minus the pop culture references. By this definition you would expect CEOs to be psychopaths, not sociopaths.

I am no physiologist so I have no idea which source is more authoritative but my guess is there is probably disagreement in the community.

Ummm....

http://www.medicaldaily.com/pa...

Please see this: http://www.medicaldaily.com/10...
You will notice there are 10 parts (organs) you don't need in your body that we don't need. But nature put it there so if has to reprogram people, it has the tools. C++ evolves and your own needs do not over ride the needs of others. Natural Language like English has lots of redundant words etc. Now if you specifically show how a feature has affected 2 or more application in your life, then it will prove either you did not understand the tool or took it for granted. Just deeply think and write. Robustness does not include absoluteness which with one single error will destroy the whole system. Head ache never kills you. but that is part of having head and the enviornment.

Photographic memory is a myth. http://www.medicaldaily.com/ph...

Not so much solved as a serious hint. The reason you know this might be the direct result of my great aunt dying. When she died she was the oldest living person in the world and she gave her body to science. (She open sourced her body)
And the result was published : http://www.medicaldaily.com/bl...
https://www.newscientist.com/a...
http://www.the-scientist.com/?...
among other places you might find info on it.

Here is a map of air pollution in the United States http://www.nws.noaa.gov/airqua... Here is a map of mental illness in the United States http://www.medicaldaily.com/sa... If toxic particles from the air are getting into human brains, could this be related?

Ok, your temper tantrums show you need to be talked to in even smaller chunks.

Which tax evasion are you talking about, in the situation I described here ?

That TED talk was awesome.

In terms of "spectrum" I think smell might take the sensory cake**. The senses don't nicely map to each other, so it depending on how we choose to define the problem any of them might win.

Vision lives within the same order of mangitude, wavelengths from ~380-720nm, with the ability to perceive maybe 10 million unique colors. But the sensitivity is tops, in theory able to detect a single photon.

Hearing ranges over 3 orders of magnitude, from 20-20,000Hz. Due to the logarithmic relationship between pitch and frequency, and the intricacies of the human ear, any of the other measures are pretty complex and frequency dependant. This is an excellent primer on the physics of hearing.

Back of the envelope, since humans are able to detect pitch differences on the order of 10 cents, if we're generous and give ourselves 11 octaves, we can maybe discern ~1,300 different pitches. Throw in timbre and loudness and things get more complicated. Sensitivity wise, there are frequencies in the lower register that have to be 60-70 dB before we perceive them.

Humans can possibly detect somewhere between a trillion and a quadrillion (but likely more than 80 million) odors, and the sensitivity to certain chemicals in the ppb to ppt range.

And it seems that sense of touch may be much more sensitive than previously thought. Like down to the nanometer scale, which is crazy.

**Even more than other types of cake, the sensory cake can be reasonably said to be a lie. Or at least, a cake with no universal truth value.

Lol.

Yep, I'll be living as a woman in 10 years, unless I die homeless in a gutter. There really is discrimination out there. It's just that it comes from management. But blame me! Sure, that's done a lot of good to fix the problem!

I will not be programming, at least not professionally. The gender insanity will continue in tech. I can't change the gender I was assigned at birth. That's a matter of public records

The requirements for changing the gender marker on birth certs, etc., has gotten a lot easier since the turn of the century. It's in recognition of several facts:

• There are those who, due to health problems, cannot risk gender-affirming surgery.
• Expense is a huge barrier.
• F2M surgery is way behind M2F surgery, as well as being about 3x the cost.
• Having to wait until after surgery to change the marker creates huge problems with jobs, etc.
• Recognition that it's what's between the ears, not the legs, that counts.

And of course there's this. Genes don't count for everything - but we already knew that :-)

I don't need to look forward to a future about arguing about whether I'm a "real" woman or just an invader with a woman-suit who's "really" just a cit het white male shitlord underneath, keeping "real" women from getting programming jobs in some vast, insane conspiracy.

... but you WILL be able to help any employer check off a few boxes in terms of diversity ... vive la difference! We have been dealt a double helping of problems, might as well take advantage of them where we can.

And most people don't really care. The TERFs (eg: Germaine Greer) are so ancient history ("what, you mean she's still alive???") that the only people who pay them attention are other TERFs and people looking for click-bait. They can go screw themselves because nobody sane would. want to.

As for Briana Wu - nobody wants to be pretty much universally known as an ID-10-T.

... portion of her skull and http://www.medicaldaily.com/ch... it with a 3d printed ...

Slashdot editors not doing their job again?

And what happened to the submission regarding the Chattanooga shooting?

http://slashdot.org/submission/4647341/islamic-terrorism-hits-chattanooga-tn

Censorship raising its ugly head in Slashdot??

Take a chill pill, you anonymous cranks! This is a tech-oriented website. Having a 3D printed titanium skull transplanted into a living human is completely appropriate for slashdot. You know what really is off-topic for /.? The Chattanooga shooting. What does that have to do with tech, computers, the internet, etc? Sure, it's news and it's tragic, but not really within the scope of this site. Not that it's stopped other random articles from showing up of course....

Only up for debate by psychopaths, just like global warming, just like austerity economics, just like uncontrolled capitalism and what ever other disingenuous debates psychopaths like to foster in order to continue their egoistic destructive criminal enterprises. http://www.medicaldaily.com/co... as an example. They should be identified at the earliest possible age and tracked, to ensure all who come in contact with them are aware who they are.

Have you ever dealt with actual High Schoolers?

Because your entire argument is based on abstract principles that have jack-squat to do with reality.

I've been an Ice Hockey coach from the Squirt level to the Midget level. That's roughly 10 years old through 18 - 19 years old. I've been the president of a Youth Ice Hockey association, and probably surprisingly to you, associated with "Take our Daughters and Sons to Work" day for several years, and as part of that, attempted to steer young women toward Science and technical careers.

The young boys and girls on the hockey teams have a marked tendency to be well behaved at the squirt level - with only a few exceptions, then when puberty kicks in, can become quite erratic in behavior. By the time they reach 15 years old, most have adapted to the surging hormones. By the time they are at Midget age, they are pretty close to physical adulthood, and are in large part, pretty sensible, and are capable of making intelligent decisions. note: I was not around many young ladies at the midget level, because with a few exceptions, they had moved to women's Hockey from co-ed hockey due to differences in mass of the young men.

While my experience with the young ladies in the TOSADTW events was not as in-depth as the coaching, the same maturity level was true. Little kids that turned into giggly early teens, then by they time they were seniors, intelligent and articulate young ladies. If they were allowed.

18-year-olds are not mature adults. Period.

And some folks want to extend that age of adulthood to 25 years old. But it really doesn't matter, because children will stay children as long as you allow/force them to be children.

http://www.medicaldaily.com/ad...

I'll bet that 30 years might be the next extension.

Not too many years ago, people were married at the young age of thirteen or so, and supported themselves and raised families.

I was 21 when I was married, and my wife had just turned 18. I was working full time, just having started my first retirement program - at her insistence, which turned out to be a rather mature move on her part, perhaps?

But if you are correct about their immaturity, it is because we don't allow them to be mature, not because they are inherently biologically or psychologially incapable of maturity. Millions of years of evolution mock your "Period". If 18 year old people were not capable of maturity, we wouldn't be here today. We'd be sleeping with the fossils.

They have quite the legal responsibilities of adults, but nobody is surprised when they check a criminal record which includes a lot of stupid shit prior to the age of 21 and is clean thereafter.

And you know, some people never gain adult maturity either. Regardless, my notation of the biological versus artificially extended childhood still stands. You didn't see those 15 year olds a hundred years ago with a couple children getting into trouble.

Moreover, this story is not about 18-year-olds. It is about 16-year-olds. They have even less maturity. They have fewer legal responsibilities.

Sure. But it's part of the extended childhood thing. And I'm not even arguing against extended childhood within reason

But people - all of them - have to realize that there is simply no possible way to protect their children from every possible threat or from bad people, or even other people who are just goofy. That's why colleges had so many problems with Helicopter Parents. The parents were still trying to make every decision for the pseudo adults they were refusing to let go. Ever have a adult child call mommy and daddy, because some professor is "mean" to them, then the outraged parents demanded the professor be fired? It's happened. Ever see a parent scheduling their childs classe

http://www.medicaldaily.com/po...

The FDA is concerned about the modified virus spreading to normal cells. Currently, the researchers are confident that the modified Polio Virus cannot transfer.

This new chemical treatment is maybe not as far along, but encouraging to see as well.

Actually, I think it has more to do with the state telling parents what shots their kids must receive. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all about vaccinations and feel that anti-vaxers are idiots, but I'm a little leery of government making health decisions for my kids.

So in your mind, the influenza vaccine is identical in risk and reward as Measles? How about the Guardasil vaccine and Polio? See, this is a huge problem trying to discuss medical issues. I'm not anti-vac, I'm anti-some vac. But if I tell someone I'm against the influenza vaccine I'm treated identical to one of the rarities that does not want any vaccines. There is little sanity to be found in terms of discussing vaccines, period.

If the government can tell your kids what vaccinations they must receive, what's next? Can they tell parents what to feed them? Can the government mandate what TV shows kids are allowed to or must watch? Can government force kids to read certain books or attend certain functions? Where do you draw the line? Once you draw that line, why can't it be crossed or moved?

They already do. Parents who do not pack what the school demands are already being forced to pay for hot lunches and kids having food taken away. Some schools are already denying packed lunch without a physician's note. The Government is already telling kids what to read, and what they can't read. As with box lunch you don't seem to have any real world knowledge.

The one someone threw at me in the last week or so was about a medical article.

Popular news headline: Marijuana Use Causes Brain Damage Confirmed

University press release title: Adolescents most at risk of brain damage from long-term, heavy cannabis use.

Actual research article title: Effect of long-term cannabis use on axonal fibre connectivity

It's not just expertise that makes you think that the news is misleading. Often times the news actually is misleading, intentionally. I'm not saying the American news media are collectively guilty of lying to the American public, but I think that collectively and severally they deserve a fair trial.

Bullshit.

Alcohol affects people in different ways, Just like THC does.

After some beers - I drive differently from when I'm sober. When I'm sober, I'm a lead foot tailgating cursing driver that wants to kill the person in the left lane refusing to obey the overtake law. If I've had a few beers, then I make damn sure to be in the right lane- under speed limit, and take back roads to avoid excessive fines in case I lose the drive lottery and get pulled over.

One thing I am happy to avoid? Brain damage from THC

http://www.medicaldaily.com/ma...

I think that THC use and Texting while driving should have the exact same penalties as someone who has .08 BAC.

My Great aunt, who donated her body to Science (Also in an Open Source way(1)) never drank any Cola, yet they were still way down when she died at the age of 115.

A search on van andel telomeres will give more detail. I have the study somewhere around here, but am not able to find it just now.

(1) Not only did she donated her body to science, she wanted the science to be used for people to learn AND have her name linked to it. To be honest, she thought she would end up on a shelf somewhere after they cut her up. She never thought it would result in so much results in research.

Also because of her, they now have proof that alzheimers is not a given with old age thus a solution is at least possible. There were no traces of Alzheimers found anywhere.

From an ideal standpoint it looks as if super-intelligent kids is something every parent would want. However there are some drawbacks. First, IQ is only a rough measure of intelligence, there are many factors involved and success in life is not immediately linked to IQ. See Unabomber, etc. Also super intelligent kids may not be that easy to handle. They typically hate school and may actually do poorly in school. They demand much more attention from parents (more activities, more time with them, etc). There is plenty of evidence that IQ is also linked to the environment kids grow in, so simply selecting the gene stuff and thinking this may be enough will not work. Intelligence is also linked to curiosity and independence and so perhaps to more risky behaviours. Finally there is a correlation with very high IQ and some severe forms of mental illness.

All in all, there is a cluster of reasons why the average IQ of the population is 100. High intelligence is not always that comfortable. Think of Sir Winston Churchill, hero of the battle of England, most effective Prime Minister in a time of war, Nobel prize winner in litterature. He had severe depression all his life (his "black dog"). I agree we should raise the general IQ though, cautiously.

Is that the smarter babies will have higher incidences of schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, depression, and drug addiction, things usually associated with genius. Even Einstein had his problems. Source: http://www.medicaldaily.com/wh...

Selecting for kids with even higher intelligence might mean they have more severe mental problems.

I want to take care of my mind too, but I'd rather do so by exercising. I've read several articles, including this one, which said that exercising helps protect your brain from decline. I'm not a doctor, but exercise just seems safer than applying electromagnetic pulses through the skull.

It's true (thought YOU might find THIS, somewhat interesting) http://www.medicaldaily.com/me...

* Seriously here: "Will wonders NEVER cease..."

APK

P.S.=> Now, what was that Dr. Alice Krippen genetically engineered to cure cancer again? Let's listen -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

... apk

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

I don't know about healthy. But late to bed, late to rise, seems to make you more intelligent and wealthier That study looked at 1000 people, rather than 54. If both studies are accurate, it looks like you can be smart, fat, and rich, or healthy, poor and stupid.

Probiotics and alternative medicine people have said things like this for decades. Modern life, with antibiotics for non-life threatening illnesses, and things to kill bacteria at every turn, is one big living experiment. Little things that have big consequences that are really unknown:

Antiseptic Mouthwash Raises Heart Attack Risk
http://www.medicaldaily.com/an...

The vascular part I am guessing / noting / observing.. it's a ,thing I noted a long time ago is all.

  The rest of it is information readily available . The general topic goes by the name of neural plasticity which is broken down into functional and structural .

It's not the thing I research specifically so I am not loaded down with bookmarks for you but I know all about it from undergrad

For people with no neuroscience background there's books like The Brain That Changes Itself and of course it's a big area of research- pulled from the web without much effort:

http://education.jhu.edu/PD/newhorizons/Neurosciences/articles/Response%20of%20the%20Brain%20to%20Enrichment/

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/29/10/3019.full.pdf

http://psyserv06.psy.sbg.ac.at:5916/fetch/PDF/21906988.pdf

http://www.medicaldaily.com/talk-therapy-reverses-biological-structural-brain-changes-ptsd-patients-264229

Some notes on one methodology:

http://dbm.neuro.uni-jena.de/pdf-files/May-TICS11.pdf

Aside from that, what exactly do you think phenomena like PTSD are? Purely disembodied psychological issues? If you've were or have ever repeatedly sustained hard study, you'd notice that your whole "self" changes in response to your efforts. You're smarter, your experience of everyday life is richer etc etc. This goes on as long as you're willing to inflict a good measure of discomfort on yourself.

By the same token, leaving your studies for a time then coming back is an extraordinarily punishing affair. Along with feelings of inadequacy and bewilderment when faced with the same material you left even a few short weeks ago, there's a sense of awe at your own former self's output and level of functioning.

Like the song says:

When you're up / looks like a long ways down
When you're down / looks like a long ways up

Cheers

Generally female to male transsexuals are wired almost exactly like males, while male to female transsexuals are about 50% female wired...

http://www.medicaldaily.com/brain-mapping-gender-identity-what-makes-boy-girl-247122

Probably a combination of initial biology and environment, as always.
(e.g. 'Made not Born', and 'nature and nurture')

http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/14434/20130328/cancer-treatment-cd47-miracle-bullet-breast-colon-bladder-antibody-eat-macrophage-immune.htm

That is one of the examples at least. Last I read it was very hard to make but is showing amazing results. I have not found out yet if the phase 1 trials happened and how they have gone.

Productions problems seem to be a fairly common things for nanomedicines right now.

There are some amazing nanotech cancer drugs that look like they are just starting human trials like this one http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/14434/20130328/cancer-treatment-cd47-miracle-bullet-breast-colon-bladder-antibody-eat-macrophage-immune.htm

I know that at this early stage there are definitely not guarantees that it even works on humans. However, at this point, it is not like he can really get worse. I have had friends die from cancer and one of the reasons I went back to school was to help make many lab bench science cures practical industrial ones. If this has any chance at all of working it would be nice if he could try it, it could stop the spread of the cancer giving him a lot more time for other things to develop and it could even completely cure the cancer.

These new immune system type nanotherapies are amazing. The idea of basically planting flags on cancer cells that your immune system will then recognize as something to be destroyed is probably one of the most creative ways to deal with cancer I have seen. Nothing toxic, your body deals with the problem at its own pace, the macrophages tell the other cells in the area to start replicating into the areas they are removing. You also don't have a toxic shock effect of so many cells dieing all at once since the therapy does not kill the cancer cells, it just marks them for destruction by your immune system.

It looks like we are very close to having real treatments and cures and I want to end the suffering that people go through with cancer. The drugs many people end up on towards the end are pretty bad and nobody should go through that.

TFA:

"Of course, we haven't been able to grow hands," Casares told New Scientists
Read more at http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/13545/20121217/scientists-make-fish-grow-hands-experiment.htm#3malsWejISVWX0hh.99

No, there is very little cheese. Not a lot of Diary in the history of China, that's why 95% are lactose intolerant.

From the article:

"In addition, because most humans could not tolerate lactose well, cheese was more easily digestible than milk. Cheese would have been the perfect way to receive the nutritional benefits of milk without much of the lactose intolerance."

Read more at http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/13493/20121213/humans-eating-cheese-7500-years.htm#GEzfA3bkMaVooLME.99

More likely it is just fraud, in my opinion. Here's another one of today's articles in Medical Daily: A Tomato a Day Keeps the Shrink Away: How Eating Tomatoes Can Cut the Risk of Depression by Half

I don't know how it was accomplished, but I'm guessing there was fraud.

Slashdot has a LONG history of running articles that are in fact advertisements, many people have said. (They call them Slashvertisements.)

Now we are seeing stories from Medical Daily.com, a publication that seems to me to be EXTREMELY unreliable public relations.

Consider this: How did Slashdot become a medical web site?

http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn/spiderdrugs.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_psychoactive_drugs_on_animals [

There's some evidence that humans shouldn't use marijuana if they are young and their brains are still developing: http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/11417/20120809/marijuana-brain-damage-memory-learning-drug-habit-addiction.htm

"Performing oral sex or having sex without a condom may benefit both mental and physical health in women, according to scientists who analyzed the effects of semen's "mood-altering chemicals."

Citation needed on that.

Desperately!

I can't speak to the accuracy of the claims, but here. Pretty much verbatim.

Anecdotally, I know what being on the receiving end does for my mood though. ;-)

You didnt miss much. Just some conclusions about the evolution of insects:

They explained that up until now, research on insects has been divided into two camps. While some researchers believe that insects evolved from the same ancestor that gave rise to malacostracans, a group of crustaceans that include crabs and shrimp, the majority of scientists believe that they were derived from a group of crustaceans called branchiopods, a species that includes include brine shrimp, which have a simpler brain anatomy than malacostracans.

However, researchers from the latest study say that the new finding shows that insects did in fact evolve from creatures that already possessed complex brains.
Read more at http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/12631/20121010/520-million-year-old-bug-creature-first.htm#hclmrDOPXj8WW6PR.99

Pick your study. This one reported on in the same web site claims Researchers concluded that the similarities in the DNA are due to common ancestry and that Neanderthals and modern humans weren't inbreeding.

Check the photo of the ear in the arm. Awesome times we live in!

Homo sapiens first appeared 180,000 years ago but stayed around bodies of water in central Africa for almost 100,000 years. Researchers explained that the location was critical because it had a ready supply of fish and shellfish that provided the necessary fatty acid Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) necessary for brain development Read more at http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/12261/20120921/180-000-year-old-mutation-allowed-human.htm#8CTvIV68ZBqJuuRV.99

Bertie was attributing the braininess of Jeeves to fish, and I thought he was being a dope as usual. Turns out there is something to that.

The MAO-A gene resides on the X chromosome. Therefore men can carry at most one copy of the gene. It is shocking that neither of the linked articles state this.
In fact, the second linked article is flat out wrong:
Interestingly, the gene did not hold the same correlation for men, who reported the same amount of happiness no matter if they had zero, one or two copies.

Actually, the good news for diabetics is already here

We cant even get voice recognition to work because of tonal changes and ascents.

Recently an article was published talking about the human synapse which describes it far as more complex than original thought. See http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20101117/3877/new-imaging-method-developed-at-stanford-reveals-stunning-details-of-brain-connections.htm

I recon we should start focusing creating LtCmdr Data before we progress on figuring out how to build Lore.

Study: Couples who delay having sex get benefits later

A new study in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Family Psychology sides with a delayed approach.

The study involves 2,035 married individuals who participated in a popular online marital assessment called "RELATE." From the assessment's database, researchers selected a sample designed to match the demographics of the married American population. The extensive questionnaire includes the question "When did you become sexual in this relationship?"

A statistical analysis showed the following benefits enjoyed by couples who waited until marriage compared to those who started having sex in the early part of their relationship:

* Relationship stability was rated 22 percent higher

* Relationship satisfaction was rated 20 percent higher

* Sexual quality of the relationship was rated 15 percent better

* Communication was rated 12 percent better

Single and Multiple Cohabitors’ Risks of Divorce

...contrary to the early hypotheses, research has consistently shown that those who cohabit prior to marriage have a greater chance of divorce than those who do not cohabit. (Bennett, Blanc, and Bloom, 1988; Bramlett and Mosher, 2002; Dush, Cohan and Amato, 2003; Lillard, Brien, and Waite, 1995).

Premarital Sex and the Risk of Divorce

Examined relationship between premarital sexual activity and risk of divorce among women married between 1965 and 1985. Found that nonvirgin brides faced considerably higher risk of marital disruption than did virgin brides.

Marriage & Relationships

What I really want to know is whether or not they had the liberal gene?
http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20101027/3003/researchers-find-a-liberal-gene.htm