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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
edited April 2009
That is explained approximately 73x better than I could possibly have done. I did the math so I know that my statistic is correct.
The article about conflict escalation is also really neat, and I just spent a while trawling for an old blurb I'd read to counterbalance it. Turns out the best reference to the study in question was ALSO on Scientific American.
In a study, the researchers explored a particular type of unselfishness known as inequality aversion. Suppose individual A has $10, and individual B has a lesser amount, say $5. We say individual A is inequality averse if he shares some of his cash with individual B, thus reducing the inequality between them. We say individual B is inequality averse if he is willing to sacrifice some part of his money, provided individual A’s endowment is reduced to an even greater degree, so that, once again, the inequality between the two is reduced.
Fehr and colleagues show that, in a sample of 229 children between the ages of three and eight years, younger subjects overwhelmingly conform to selfish (self-regarding) preferences. They don’t like to share and aren’t interest in reducing inequality. In contrast, the vast majority of the older subjects are inequality averse when put in either the advantageous (individual A) or inadvantageous (individual position.
Moreover, the researchers find that the older children are “rational” in the sense that they are more willing to share when the cost of doing so is low than when the cost is high. Finally, the children tend to be more inequality averse in dealing with “ingroup” members, or children from their own school or day care. This preference for sharing with ingroup members occurred even the sharing game was purely anonymous, so no child could determine the identity of the other players.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Also, have you guys ever thought about microbe sex, because it's really cool.
See, little things like bacteria and protozoa are a lot more promiscuous than we are. They'll mate in many ways and with many things outside their own species, to the point that SPECIES is a really hard thing to pin down when it comes to microbes.
One of the more interesting ways in which bacteria can reproduce actually involves one living bacteria simply absorbing pieces of another DEAD bacteria and incorporating some of it's DNA into it's own body. They can also share fragments of their DNA, called plasmids, like kids today would swap trading cards. And these exchanges don't just provide the bacteria's OFFSPRING with benefits, the bacteria itself can utilize the new instructions right away, perhaps providing it with drug resistance or other micro super powers.
preferably not as bulky, but yeah, I saw that yesterday and thought about it again. all the watch phones they're doing I just don't see being easy to use because the touchscreen is goddamn watch sized, texting would be terrible
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RobchamThe Rabbit Kingof your pantsRegistered Userregular
Also, have you guys ever thought about microbe sex, because it's really cool.
See, little things like bacteria and protozoa are a lot more promiscuous than we are. They'll mate in many ways and with many things outside their own species, to the point that SPECIES is a really hard thing to pin down when it comes to microbes.
One of the more interesting ways in which bacteria can reproduce actually involves one living bacteria simply absorbing pieces of another DEAD bacteria and incorporating some of it's DNA into it's own body. They can also share fragments of their DNA, called plasmids, like kids today would swap trading cards. And these exchanges don't just provide the bacteria's OFFSPRING with benefits, the bacteria itself can utilize the new instructions right away, perhaps providing it with drug resistance or other micro super powers.
Imagine the possibilities in a human. Finding a dead hobo and absorbing his alcohol resistance + addiction
I generally find science coverage by the big networks to be really annoying because they tend to gloss over the actual science and sensationalize the story while ignoring the really interesting stuff.
Also, have you guys ever thought about microbe sex, because it's really cool.
See, little things like bacteria and protozoa are a lot more promiscuous than we are. They'll mate in many ways and with many things outside their own species, to the point that SPECIES is a really hard thing to pin down when it comes to microbes.
One of the more interesting ways in which bacteria can reproduce actually involves one living bacteria simply absorbing pieces of another DEAD bacteria and incorporating some of it's DNA into it's own body. They can also share fragments of their DNA, called plasmids, like kids today would swap trading cards. And these exchanges don't just provide the bacteria's OFFSPRING with benefits, the bacteria itself can utilize the new instructions right away, perhaps providing it with drug resistance or other micro super powers.
So by the time I get done typing this everyone and their kid cousin will have responded and the topic will have veered away, but this is really cool AND something that happens in a slightly different way with other species and lifeforms, as well. I just finished reading about E. coli's ability to trade up DNA under unfriendly conditions in my book.
The finch species on the Galapagos Islands - not all the islands, but Daphne Major in particular, where The Beak of the Finch is mainly concerned - typically don't hybridize, but the species themselves are waaay more fluid than they initially seem. The periodic hybrids that spring up (particularly after periods of high-stress) bring fresh DNA from outside of the colony and allow for more successful variation within the species down the road.
Fruit flies and some kinds of fish have been studied doing basically this exact same thing.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Also, have you guys ever thought about microbe sex, because it's really cool.
See, little things like bacteria and protozoa are a lot more promiscuous than we are. They'll mate in many ways and with many things outside their own species, to the point that SPECIES is a really hard thing to pin down when it comes to microbes.
One of the more interesting ways in which bacteria can reproduce actually involves one living bacteria simply absorbing pieces of another DEAD bacteria and incorporating some of it's DNA into it's own body. They can also share fragments of their DNA, called plasmids, like kids today would swap trading cards. And these exchanges don't just provide the bacteria's OFFSPRING with benefits, the bacteria itself can utilize the new instructions right away, perhaps providing it with drug resistance or other micro super powers.
So by the time I get done typing this everyone and their kid cousin will have responded and the topic will have veered away, but this is really cool AND something that happens in a slightly different way with other species and lifeforms, as well. I just finished reading about E. coli's ability to trade up DNA under unfriendly conditions in my book.
The finch species on the Galapagos Islands - not all the islands, but Daphne Major in particular, where The Beak of the Finch is mainly concerned - typically don't hybridize, but the species themselves are waaay more fluid than they initially seem. The periodic hybrids that spring up (particularly after periods of high-stress) bring fresh DNA from outside of the colony and allow for more successful variation within the species down the road.
Fruit flies and some kinds of fish have been studied doing basically this exact same thing.
no way they have been the same for the past 6000 years as when they first were made
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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
edited April 2009
We don't gots to be arguing here, see, cause evolution is god fuckin around with Play-Doh.
And something going extinct is when he sticks a chunk in his mouth to see if "orange color" tastes as good as it looks.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
It's times like this that I'm so glad my father is an incredibly angry elitist atheist who lectures in mental health for a living
And then we'll be discussing logistical probabilistic approaches to politics and religion and he'll make me feel dumb
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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
edited April 2009
Gotcha beat - the only time it ever came up in conversation with my father he said he just didn't see why dinosaurs couldn't have existed at the same time as human beings.
This from a man with a Master's from the University of Chicago.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Gotcha beat - the only time it ever came up in conversation with my father he said he just didn't see why dinosaurs couldn't have existed at the same time as human beings.
This from a man with a Master's from the University of Chicago.
I remember way back shortly after I had both left the church in general and left the christian university I was studying at to be a missionary, I was dating this gal and was invited over to have dinner and meet the parents. During dinner, I was talking about how I grew up watching Jacques Cousteau and how that helped develop my fascination with the ocean. All her mother could say was, "he's that evolutionist isn't he?"
Surface blooms of the algae known as Pseudo-nitzschia can generate dangerously high levels of domoic acid, a neurotoxin blamed for bizarre bird attacks dramatized in Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film "The Birds."
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The article about conflict escalation is also really neat, and I just spent a while trawling for an old blurb I'd read to counterbalance it. Turns out the best reference to the study in question was ALSO on Scientific American.
Why Children Like to Share
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
You Mean Like This?
could they have come up with a better name for this?
I do not think so
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also, that vid is so awkward
uh
I have no trouble making that distinction
SO awkward.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
See, little things like bacteria and protozoa are a lot more promiscuous than we are. They'll mate in many ways and with many things outside their own species, to the point that SPECIES is a really hard thing to pin down when it comes to microbes.
One of the more interesting ways in which bacteria can reproduce actually involves one living bacteria simply absorbing pieces of another DEAD bacteria and incorporating some of it's DNA into it's own body. They can also share fragments of their DNA, called plasmids, like kids today would swap trading cards. And these exchanges don't just provide the bacteria's OFFSPRING with benefits, the bacteria itself can utilize the new instructions right away, perhaps providing it with drug resistance or other micro super powers.
Secret Satan
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THINK OF A NUMBER, ANY NUMBER
RIGHT, NOW THAT NUMBER IS THE LETTER H AND IT'S ACCELLERATING AWAY FROM YOU BACKWARDS IN TIME AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT
SIMULTANEOUSLY, IT IS YOUR FAAAAAATHER
NOW LOOK AT YOUR CARD
IF IT IS THE THREE OF HEARTS, YOU JUST GOT QUANTUM'D
Super Strong Kids May Hold Genetic Secrets
Imagine the possibilities in a human. Finding a dead hobo and absorbing his alcohol resistance + addiction
he lectured at my school last night
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa
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the science guy?
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And he was adopted. dun dun dun!
That would've been awesome.
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Pfft. I could totally take that kid in a fight.
mmmmm
you had me at frozen vat of pig semen
So by the time I get done typing this everyone and their kid cousin will have responded and the topic will have veered away, but this is really cool AND something that happens in a slightly different way with other species and lifeforms, as well. I just finished reading about E. coli's ability to trade up DNA under unfriendly conditions in my book.
The finch species on the Galapagos Islands - not all the islands, but Daphne Major in particular, where The Beak of the Finch is mainly concerned - typically don't hybridize, but the species themselves are waaay more fluid than they initially seem. The periodic hybrids that spring up (particularly after periods of high-stress) bring fresh DNA from outside of the colony and allow for more successful variation within the species down the road.
Fruit flies and some kinds of fish have been studied doing basically this exact same thing.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
And something going extinct is when he sticks a chunk in his mouth to see if "orange color" tastes as good as it looks.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
And then we'll be discussing logistical probabilistic approaches to politics and religion and he'll make me feel dumb
This from a man with a Master's from the University of Chicago.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Artist's rendering:
i avoid conversations about evolution and religion and stuff like that
This was of course asked with an air of distaste.
hahahahaha
God, thinking is so repulsive to me, have a scone and maybe some dogma to go with it
"Think of it as Evolution in Action"