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Transition Metal Catalysts Could Be Key To Origin of Life
An anonymous reader writes "One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals — such as amino acids and nucleotides — have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation? In a paper appearing in the current issue of The Biological Bulletin, scientists propose that a third type of catalyst could have jumpstarted metabolism and life itself, deep in hydrothermal ocean vents."
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glenn beck?
Beck is the natural reaction to Obamatuerism.
Who but a rank amateur would attribute a quote from Theodore Parker to Martin Luther King:
A mistake has been made in the Oval Office makeover that goes beyond the beige.
President Obama’s new presidential rug seemed beyond reproach, with quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. woven along its curved edge.
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” According media reports, this quote keeping Obama company on his wheat-colored carpet is from King.
Except it’s not a King quote. The words belong to a long-gone Bostonian champion of social progress. His roots in the republic ran so deep that his grandfather commanded the Minutemen at the Battle of Lexington.
For the record, Theodore Parker is your man, President Obama. Unless you’re fascinated by antebellum American reformers, you may not know of the lyrically gifted Parker, an abolitionist, Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist thinker who foresaw the end of slavery, though he did not live to see emancipation. He died at age 49 in 1860, on the eve of the Civil War.
What kind of rank idiot fucks up something like that?!?!
Beck explained: A guy trying to sell books and get rating for his TV show.
If you think he is anything more, you're as duped as his minions.
What kind of rank idiot fucks up something like that?!?!
Are you supposing that Obama made the rug himself?
There are plenty of substantive issues you could have criticized him for.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
What kind of rank idiot fucks up something like that?!?!
Me, actually. With quotes that get thrown around a lot, it's really easy to misattribute them. Martin Luther King did say it, after all, and sometimes it's hard to trace back to the original source. It is possible Theodore Parker even heard it from somewhere else, you don't know.
Qxe4
When a country moves too far to the left, demand arises for a populist right wing figure to satisfy all the simple people who rightly feel that there is something wrong but lack the understanding of what exactly, and therefore need it explained in simple language with drawings on a chalk board, just like in school. That's where Glenn Beck comes in.
your such an idiot, the left is like a spoiled child wanting it's mommy (the government) to wipe it's ass and spoon feed it.
Glen Beck and his chalk board can be explained by A Beautiful Mind.
Have gnu, will travel.