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  1. Re:Intelligent Design tantamount to teaching relig on Slashback: Little Red Hoax, Firefly, Google · · Score: 1

    "if a pattern cannot be found it is called random. If God is behind random that is fine but because God cannot be proven or disproved scientifically,"

    I don't think you have read the same explanation of the evolution theory as I did. Could it be that you only read summaries in ID books? If so, and if you are open to other ideas at all, read http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/abioprob. html ('what's wrong with creationists' "abiogenesis is so improbable" calculations') and if you dare http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/evo/blfaq_ev o_science.htm

  2. Re:Esperanto? on New Keyboard Has Just 53 Keys · · Score: 1

    I love the grammar. 'To be' in Latin is horrible: sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt.

    In English it is easier: am, are, is, are, are, are. In Esperanto, it is, correct me if I am wrong: estas, estas, estas, estas, estas, estas.
    Future: estis. Past: estos.

    And every single other verb behaves the same!
    ====
    But back to the keyboard: it's so brave to try, but already when i switch to the other OS I miss all the keyboard shortcuts that make me thrice as productive, have to do it all with the mouse again. I'm not going to even try this kb.

  3. Re:A little bit biased, isn't it? on Chimpanzees Beat out Children in Reasoning Test · · Score: 1

    Notice all the juvenile tracts humans show, if compared to monkeys.
    Only hair on the (round) skull, big eyes, no strong jaw muscles. Arm length.

    A theory says that that development is delayed in humans. It's not a difficult thing to do for evolution, just delay some genes to be activated.
    This would give us a chance to grow our skull after birth, because growing the head more in-womb would require a different way of giving birth. A side effect is that we are dependent creatures for a longer period. Which requires more parental care, a stronger bond between parents, but also gives more chance to learn and copy.

    There is bound to be a neighour of you who has the pocket The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris. I think he is into this theory.

  4. Re:Experiment Proposal on Chimpanzees Beat out Children in Reasoning Test · · Score: 1

    Yes, I think that's the key.

    And the fact that they took human kids, which might be in their imitation phase.

  5. eeeev'rybody knows..... on Chimpanzees Beat out Children in Reasoning Test · · Score: 1

    .. that all properties we have can be assigned to single genes.

    Such as the anti-drought gene from cacti which can be put into wheat, so GMO wheat can be grown in the desert.

  6. Re:but children will become adults on Chimpanzees Beat out Children in Reasoning Test · · Score: 1

    That would take immense power. The best effort has been put into that but what do you do against this strong mental power we have dubbed cognitive dissonance...
    http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/disso nance.htm

  7. Re:balls on Narwhal Tusks are Sensory Organs · · Score: 1

    AFAIK the Rhino's horn is constructed of hair, not ivory.

  8. Re:Lotus Notes on Mozilla Thunderbird Gets Firefox-style Tabs · · Score: 1

    Ok Notes-lovers, so did Eudora, and like Thunderbird, Pegasus opens a window for every mail you wish to double-click, but then also adds them to the Windows list.

    It's not what I was waiting for in TB, i was hoping for a richer search, easier filtering, reorganizable maps.

  9. Re:Hypes in findings? on Earliest Bird Had Feet Like Dinosaur · · Score: 1

    Great post, thanks for clarifying this!

  10. Hypes in findings? on Earliest Bird Had Feet Like Dinosaur · · Score: 1

    Is there some peak lately in observations on dinosaur fossiles in relation to birds?
    Whatever is causing this?
      - suddenly more fossiles appear of ancient birds?
      - was there some sudden insight?
      - is the press more interested in this subject?
      - is it a hype in researchers land?
    Or is it me being more focused on it?

  11. Re:ID on Earliest Bird Had Feet Like Dinosaur · · Score: 1

    How are we supposed to read that, as sarcasm, as an argument proving something?

  12. Re:Competition on BellSouth Wants to Rig the Internet · · Score: 1

    If monopolies are allowed it would be hard to stop it. Better support anti-monopoly NGO's and politicians.

  13. Re:Whatever on What's New With IE, Firefox, Opera · · Score: 1

    oops, y're right... 1000x that.

  14. Re:Opera on What's New With IE, Firefox, Opera · · Score: 1

    Hm, did you know Opera has several sort of 'skins' so you can make it imitate whatever browser you were used to?
    (no i am not an opera user)

  15. Re:Whatever on What's New With IE, Firefox, Opera · · Score: 1

    A Bug Forum is a place where people suffering from bugs come together, and the easier accessable it is and the more people think their bugs are taken seriously, the more peopl will report there.
    So if that's your indication of the quality of a product, think again.

    My FF (1.5rc3) now uses 78k with 8 tabs, 1 window. It only crashes on rare sites, the last time I experienced one is over a month ago. But I am not that much of a flash site visitor, and I skip the average time-wasting intro.

  16. Re:Also probably bogus on Born with Couch Potato Genes? · · Score: 1

    Thank you for pointing to this, very interesting. I found a nice story on that institute: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oregon_ Institute_of_Science_and_Medicine

  17. Re:Utah, mormons, god... on Researchers Identify Gene Involved in Regeneration · · Score: 1

    thanks h4rm0ny, my connection was down for a day, but I couldn't have said it better.

  18. Re:Utah, mormons, god... on Researchers Identify Gene Involved in Regeneration · · Score: 1

    [Ah, anonymous, why?]
    The church lately has been very very good in forgiving, the previous pope has said genetic engineering is fine 8-o. He's been convinced by the Africa-needs-GMO nonsense.

  19. Re:fetus on Researchers Identify Gene Involved in Regeneration · · Score: 1

    runs to his lab...

    They've done things like splitting the ball of cells that you get before it forms into an embryo shape (google: morula, blastula), and semi-splitting it, etc. -i hope not on humans though- and well that worked out fine usually. Later, me thinks goes wrong.

  20. Re:More intelligent animals on Researchers Identify Gene Involved in Regeneration · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Re: worm: afaik the remaining part of the worm (ar we talking lumbricus terrestris?)needs to have a bit or the whole 'ring' structure. So only one part can regenerate.

    Re: complex animal: all these scientists found is how to BREAK the mechanism. Like when I was 10, i could take a part out of the alarm clock (but then it failed completely). Until now most GMO's are single gene expressions. (double if you count in the antibiotic resistance, but no things cooperating)

  21. Re:Get your $#!^ together on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    Really? Hm that does not make sense then, mentioning fruit/vegetable diets, does it?

  22. Re:uh, low flush toilets are often REQUIRED... on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    and this one was low flush?
    or poorly connected?

  23. Re:Get your $#!^ together on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    BWJones said: "are not so great if you have a fruit/vegetable intensive diet"

    Wrong here, what's smelly is the digested proteines. Proteines are found much more in meat and dairy products, than in fruit and veggies. The odd bean besides. The human digestive tract is also pretty long for meat, which usualy starts rotting in the bowels. You should really compare the odour of veggies and mcD'ies.

    Especially when you go a step further and abandon the flush toilet for a compost toilet, you'ld like to be vegetarian, or rather vegan. (And one low on beans :) ) At a huge meeting (Ecotopia Romania, 1995) were they (Rampenplan) cooked vegetarian, the compost toilets smelled <sweet>. Eeeev'rybody said so!

    But draining and ventilating them intensively is vital. If you don't it gets really smelly.

  24. Re:Colateral damage (please RTFA) on Royal Society Wants to Keep Science off Web · · Score: 1

    Sorry for forgetting the newline tags.

  25. Re:Colateral damage (please RTFA) on Royal Society Wants to Keep Science off Web · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And remember that the Royal Society is not always unbiased: Royal Society misleads MPs over cloning CAHGE believes that the Royal Society is misusing its scientific prestige in attempts to overcome the public and MP's resistance to embryo cloning. http://www.hgalert.org/pReleases/pr07-11-00.htm and: Pro-GM Royal Society Fellow Named as Source of Libel Case Allegations The High Court in London has been told that a letter from Prof. Anthony Trewavas, well-known champion of GM and critic of organic agriculture, contained a series of unfounded allegations about Greenpeace and Lord Melchett that should never have been published. Jonathan Matthews reports. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Trewavas.php (!)