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Re: Hi Nautikos. delivering flowers till I blog properly again.
Thanks proc! Even men appreciate flowers sometimes...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 23, 2007 at 6:17 PM
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Hi Nautikos. delivering flowers till I blog properly again.
posted by
proc
on May 23, 2007 at 5:54 PM
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Kabu
MAKE SURE YOU PICK UP YOUR SKIRTS!
posted by
Nautikos
on May 23, 2007 at 4:39 PM
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Naut darlin'
gorillas, demons, blue boys with dingly gangly dee dee's, all behind me I promise............gotta run they're chasing me down the street. BYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
posted by
Kabu
on May 23, 2007 at 4:37 PM
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Troosha
Without getting into cumbersome detail, let me just give you one example: mirror neurons. They fire when you see things being done. They are essential for feelings of empathy. People tend to vary in the degree to which that happens. Cases where they are functioning very poorly tend to be associated with autism...
I had a little standing joke with my therapist, telling im he had no mirror neurons, since he didn't care about the pain he was inflicting on me...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 23, 2007 at 10:02 AM
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Re: I love the mystery and magic of science -- it's so much weirder than
PAT! YESSSSSSS! YOU UNDERSTAND! SCIENCE BOGGLES THE MIND! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START! AND IT'S REASON! REASON WRAPPED IN MYSTERY AND MAGIC!
posted by
Nautikos
on May 23, 2007 at 9:04 AM
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Naut
I'm still scratching my head about the possibility of emotional tendancies being a result of the gene pool (not one of your posts, I think - someone else's). Emotions, I believe, are nurture - not nature.
posted by
Troosha
on May 23, 2007 at 8:40 AM
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I love the mystery and magic of science -- it's so much weirder than
the strangest stuff you could think up.
posted by
Pat_B
on May 23, 2007 at 6:53 AM
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Offy
It's nice here in Southern Ontario as well...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 23, 2007 at 5:57 AM
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Kabu
That's not what I had in mind! But the demon could have been an escaped gorilla from the Sidney zoo! It happened to a woman in Rotterdam the other day, who was sat upon by one! Of course, he wasn't from the Sidney zoo, but the Rotterdam one, although he was originally from Berlin! Can't trust these Germans!
But Kabu, dear, you really need to get your mind off Li'l Boy Blue, and especially his dingly dangly dee dee, or else you'll end up being one of Oliver Sacks' clinical cases...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 23, 2007 at 5:56 AM
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Enigmatic
Of
course I'm right! I'm
incapable of being wrong!
posted by
Nautikos
on May 23, 2007 at 5:46 AM
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Good morning again....We have another beautiful day in the midwest..
posted by
Offy
on May 23, 2007 at 4:19 AM
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Naut so the blue boy with the dingly dangly
dee dee was a genetic mutation???????
Are you trying to tell me that my brush with demons came from a dna mutation too. Hmmnnnnnn well now then back to the blue boy
Little boy blue come blow on your horn etc.
posted by
Kabu
on May 22, 2007 at 9:59 PM
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Nautikos
You're absolutely right - calling them genetic mutations, would be an insult to all genetic mutants throughout the world!
posted by
Enigmatic68
on May 22, 2007 at 7:38 PM
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TAPS
Definitely. The interesting thing is simply that there is ancestral
viral material in our genetic make-up. I suspect it is very rarely expressed, if at all! And in your case I don't think one could possibly find an error anyway...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 22, 2007 at 7:27 PM
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Enigmatic
Rosie and Burka Boy are not genetic mutations, they're genetic catastrophes...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 22, 2007 at 7:18 PM
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MandaLee
thanks for the rose!
posted by
Nautikos
on May 22, 2007 at 7:16 PM
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Nautikos
Like everything human, there are errors even in genetic materials and when these errors are copied (which they are), mutations occur. Now you have me mentally inspecting my being and considering which parts of me might be copies of errors.
posted by
TAPS.
on May 22, 2007 at 7:04 PM
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Nautikos
Are there specific genetic mutations that explain the existence of people like Rosie O'Donnell and Michael Jackson?!
posted by
Enigmatic68
on May 22, 2007 at 6:58 PM
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posted by
Amanda__
on May 22, 2007 at 6:20 PM
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afzal
you're welcome!
posted by
Nautikos
on May 22, 2007 at 5:53 PM
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Offy
yeah well, but it has been going on for millions of years, and is continuing, of course. Evolution hasn't stopped just because we're around! God knows what we're passing on, lol...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 22, 2007 at 5:52 PM
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Thanks for sharing a hitherto unknown information.
posted by
afzal50
on May 22, 2007 at 5:49 PM
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Naut
Well when I think of prehistoric parasites forming DNA it rather makes me uneasy
posted by
Offy
on May 22, 2007 at 5:39 PM
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Offy
well, nothing new here, really, the only new thing is that we know more now...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 22, 2007 at 5:35 PM
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Naut
This is not good news...It can't be..
posted by
Offy
on May 22, 2007 at 5:18 PM
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