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Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids From Learning From Their Mistakes
jamie pointed out an interesting piece being featured in Newsweek that claims a "genetic glitch" may prevent some kids from learning from their mistakes to the same degree as others. "If there is one thing experts on child development agree on, it is that kids learn best when they are allowed to make mistakes and feel the consequences. So Mom and Dad hold back as their toddler tries again and again to cram a round peg into a square hole. [...] But not, it seems, all kids. In about 30 percent, the coils of their DNA carry a glitch, one that leaves their brains with few dopamine receptors, molecules that act as docking ports for one of the neurochemicals that carry our thoughts and emotions. A paucity of dopamine receptors is linked to an inability to avoid self-destructive behavior such as illicit drug use. But the effects spill beyond such extremes. Children with the genetic variant are unable to learn from mistakes. No matter how many tests they blow by partying the night before, the lesson just doesn't sink in."
Kinda like the Democrats?
Dark Reflection
Sounds like Dubya has this genetic glitch..
This must explain conservatives. Keep trying the same failed policies time after time, each iteration expecting a different result. (Not a troll, just statement of fact. Look at the neocons trying to get us into a war over Georgia.) And let us not forget our pending war with Iran.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Geez, no wonder he keeps recycling the failed policies of Jimmy Carter.
We all knew there had to be something genetically wrong with anyone who "thinks" that putting huge taxes on oil companies will make gasoline cheaper for the common man.
Bush...Twice?!?
It's like the cover of Britain's "Daily Mirror" asked after the re-election of Bush: "How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?" (with a comment at the top of the cover saying: "Doh! 4 more years of Dubya")
And now our electorate is still a little confused about the people responsible for many of the bad policies of the past eight years... John McCain is only a few percentage points behind Obama. That is absolutely insane!
This genetic glitch must affect half of the American population -- especially the 20% who think Bush is "doing a heck of a job"! LOL!
me 2. I was a C student in high school, now in a PhD program in C.S. , HEIL HITLER!
Who shall decide the winners and losers? The Soviet Union had tests to segregate people based on ability. They were abused for politics and who do you know kind of stuff. The National Socialist wanted to segregate people based on their idea of racial purity. When you build two systems, one for "smart" people and one for "dumb" people what you ultimately create is a class division and give someone the power to decide what kind of education people get.
There is no longer a need to be stingy with education, so your main motives no longer apply. Electronic publication makes it possible to share knowledge with everyone and no one interested should ever be denied. Wealth comes from the freedom to exploit resources. Artificial restrictions and scarcity create poverty and resentment. Hoarding knowledge is a crime.
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i've never seen a bigger lunkhead than you. why don't you just shut the fuck up and go to digg where you belong.
And there I wondered, why they come up with the same bullshit over and over again...
"Not a Republican"?
What's your argument that Bush and his 2001-2006 Congressional majority were not Republicans? Of course they were Republicans. Not only are they all in the Republican Party, they voted in lockstep with each other. The most monolithic Republican Party in the modern age, probably ever. For whom 60M+ Americans, mostly registered Republicans, voted, for 3 straight elections, plus the even larger number voting for the Republican congressmembers 1994-1998.
With their majority, Republicans have ruled with an iron fist. Their project was called the "Permanent Republican Majority". They excluded minority congressmembers, the Democrats, to an unprecedented degree. Not only was Bush/Cheney by far the most secretive Executive in history, even "reclassifying" vast ranges of once public info, secret even from Congress (Democrats, anyway), but the Republicans routinely would release to Democrats for reading a bill to be voted on the night before the vote; bills of hundreds or thousands of pages, often complex lists of incoherent patches to existing large bodies of laws. Republicans even went so far as to threaten with "the Nuclear Option" minority right to filibuster: the Senate's "last resort" for extending and delaying debate before a vote at the personal cost of a senator actually standing up and talking for dozens of hours. The Nuclear Option would have totally unbalanced the power of the minority that the Senate had operated on for over two centuries, since its founding. Of course, Republicans have now filibustered in their minority since 2006 more times than any other Senate ever has, a matter of course, on practically every bill opposed by their party line, rather than merely voting their minority bloc and losing to the will of the majority. Even though the Democratic majority has brought to votes bills that are vastly more moderate than the draconian ones the Republicans routinely passed.
All that Republican partisan totalitarianism was exercised first with one of the slimmest possible majorities, over one of the largest possible minorities, with the two parties right up against the 50%+1 mark. Though Democrats now have a larger margin in their majorities in each chamber, Republicans filibuster and vote as a bloc so much that they are even more powerful stopping Congressional work than they were in doing it when they excluded Democrats.
There has never before been a party in the US as partisan, and voting completely consistent with its party policies, as has been Bush's Republican Party.
Bush was an "Evangelical" candidate, but Evangelicals are largely Republicans. Bush's policies have not been very "Evangelical", except as a way to destroy science and education where those institutions interfere with the Republican corporatist agenda. War in Iraq isn't very "Evangelical", as Saddam Hussein's regime was secular, and the (Republican) Christian Crusaders throughout Bush's government (especially in the Air Force) have used religious war as nothing but an excuse for an endless war that mainly fills their budgets with blank checks and unaccountable power. The "Evangelical" aspect is nothing but a mask for suckers. The vast substance of Bush's policies beneath that mask have been completely irrelevant to Evangelical interests. Even Bush's "Faith Based Initiatives Office" got shortchanged, with its #1 deputy dropping out to write one of the most scathing condemnations of Bush's congame, _Tempting Faith_.
You've got that "Blue Dog Democrat" argument wrong, too. The entire argument by Blue Dogs is that they have to act like Republicans to get elected in a Republican state like Nebraska. And Nebraska indeed does send Ben Nelson (D-NE) to the Senate on exactly that argument, though you say they wouldn't. Nelson then proceeded to vote with Democrats only slightly more than he did with Republicans. Nelson's Republican counterparts from Democratic states, like Gordon
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And his post gets marked +4 informative for describing a simpsons episode, only on /.
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