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Children Help Their Mothers for Decades
Itninja writes "NPR reported this morning on some interesting findings regarding mothers and their children. From the article: 'Some scientists have proposed that when a woman has a baby, she gets not just a son or a daughter, but a gift of cells that stays behind and protects her for the rest of her life. That's because a baby's cells linger in its mom's body for decades and -- like stem cells -- may help to repair damage when she gets sick. It's such an enticing idea that even the scientists who came up with the idea worry that it may be too beautiful to be true.'"
It's such an enticing idea that even the scientists who came up with the idea worry that it may be too beautiful to be true.
A qualified poet once testified under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty, and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in the case was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening's ultragolf.
Yes, there is the "Good Hypothesis": that the cells stay in the mom and try to protect her for the rest of her life.
And yes, there is the "Bad Hypothesis": that the cells gather at inflammation sites and contribute to mom's autoimmune diseases.
But there is also a third hypothesis:
That both of the first two hypothesis were concocted by by a wily editor of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy in order to increase the level of universal uncertainty and paranoia and so boost sales of the Guide?
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
"Service Pack".
So My mom has a fetus cache? Or did I leave a cookie?
And All I Ask is a Tall Ship And a Star to Steer Her By
My personal collection of cells can actually mow my Mom's entire lawn.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
The miracles of the vagina never cease to amaze me....9 months trying to get out and the rest of your life trying to get back in.
Babies are the new brocolli! Eat more babies!
Experience negative health benefits from children.
I know mine drive me crazy.
are 30 years old and still living in the basement.
sigs, as if you care.
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... the rate of pregnancy in woman in their 40-70's has skyrocketed!
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
I've got some cells that are lingering inside your mom too.
nothing
So it's okay if I skip a card and chocolates on her birthday now and then, right?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
nice, your typo contradicted your point :)
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
If it wasn't so much fun, I'd stop trying to kill her this way. Y'know, ever since she had that tubal, I've been wondering about the wisdom of trying to do her in by impregnation. Oh, well . . . too late to stop now!
Just like a Ga'ould symbiot! Second only in healing powers to Richard Dean Anderson himself.
"Dance with me, mom! Dance the dance of life!" ...fumble, trip, crash...
...sigh... the things I did for you, giving you birth through excruciating labour for hours... ...sigh... the things I did for you, leaving my fetal cell behind to help you heal...
So is this mean, I can finally talk back to my mom with same tone?
mom:
son:
ps: Mom, I love you. I'm just kidding.
"Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
Thanks. Now when my mom asks me what I've done for her, I can deflect the guilt trip.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Now when my mom and I get into an argument and she uses the line "Hey! I brought you into this world!" I can counter with:
I gave you super healing!
"There are more important things than stopping terrorism. Upholding the Constitution is one of them." - Ars Forumer.
Ok...so mothers get to live longer because of the left over cells. What about the years shaved off by dealing with youngins?
Child birth: +10 years
Raising a child: -7 years
Genetic design working out in your benefit: Priceless.
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
What's so beautiful about the idea that females send unknowing new people into this cruel world, just so the mothers can leech off the stemcells? They keep the byproduct of the stemcell production around, first to help with chores, then to pose for exploitative pictures, and later to drive them to the senior club.
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make install -not war
The therapist always told me I wasn't responsible for my mothers death, but now I have scientific evidence.
My cells should have been there for her.
If only Google Maps could find me the nearest bridge.
Good Bye Cruel World!
Big ones, small ones, some as big as yer 'ead!
Give 'em a twist, a flick o' the wrist...
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Was that the episode where they magnified a photograph to an impossible resolution?
Or maybe it was the episode where they compared a fingerprint to all the ones in their database...for some reason rendering each fingerprint to a computer monitor as they did it?
No wait...I bet it was the episode where Grissom makes a condescending comment to the criminal just as they're taking him away.
Heheh. Actually I saw that episode. It was a pretty good one. And one that showed that DNA evidence is not always 100% correct. They had ruled this guy out as a suspect, even though the rape victim was pointing at him and saying "Thats the guy who did it!"
"Some scientists have proposed that when a woman has a baby, she gets not just a son or a daughter, but a gift of cells that stays behind and protects her for the rest of her life"
I thought it refered to the kid as the gift of cells that protects the mother.
God spoke to me.
That isn't true, and the gender disparity only shows up much later in life. I'm not sure why the difference exists
Some men develop testicles later in life which produces testosterone -- the male hormone.
Evidence of the contrary is here.