Peterkin

No. Religion is the domestication, and later institutionalization of spirituality. Mysticism is another, more chaotic manifestation of spirituality.

Yep. But I'm not going another round.

most intriguing: hormones and the working of this complex chemical factory. Prettiest microscopic structure : kidney.

Yes, I think some people are seriously contemplating a project of that kind No, but some code can be included in the vehicle. Of course, there is no telling how long the new life would take to develop and evolve to the point of civilizing itself - if ever. You can't just plunk down the ingredients for human babies on a sterile planet; you'd have to start with plankton and wait for the planet to terraform itself. We can't really be sure of that, but i don't see how you'd program it with racial memories more complicated than fear of falling... and even that won't kick in until you get a creature with a big enough brain. besides, even if you could imprint the concept of human civilization on plankton DNA, what is the plankton supposed to do with that information?

Bet they have a weight problem...

Celery, green peppers, lettuce, watercress, spinach, cabbage, chard, asparagus, green beans... If it's green, go ahead and eat as much as you like, but take it easy on the salt (water retention) and hold the butter! Make those side dishes to mushrooms, eggplant or summer squash, and for dessert, a tomato.

This could potentially be a hot-button issue. Still, you're right; it's probably not the sort of thing those sort of people would read. So if the university isn't answering, it must be for some other reason.

You might try going through the publication. But it's quite understandable if they don't give out personal contact information. Imagine the number the questions, from the well-informed right down to the really, really stupid that might come pouring in. You'd never get any more work done. Think of all the armed loonies out there, sending death-threats to journalists, scientists, politicians and academics.

Sow or root plants - not one plant, a group of them - in identical soil, in identical containers. When they have reached whatever stage of development you think is right to begin the experiment, divide the group in half. The control group will be treated according to horticultural instructions - whatever is recommended for that species. The experimental group will be subjected to stress. If more than one kind of stress is contemplated, you must further subdivide the experimental group and label clearly, or mark in some way as to which group is subjected to what kind of stress; e.g. Group W is overwatered; Group L is deprived of sunlight; Group S is allowed to become pot-bound and given no plant food. Every scientific experiment needs a control, a method and a pre-specified duration.

A rocket is not a spaceship.

No. It's quite common. Some people have better recall than others, partly due to natural inclination, partly to practice. If, for example, you have a job where you need to learn a new set of data for each assignment and forget it for the next, you will have developed the medium-term memory more and the long term retrieval less than someone who needs to accumulate a permanent knowledge base. In that case, you will have greater success with grocery lists, while he remembers everyone's birthday. Different uses of the equipment, that's all. As for being outside, there are many kinds of 'outside'. Some of those places, indeed, all unfamiliar places, are full of potential hazards that require constant vigilance. For deep thought, you need a place where you feel secure enough to relax your guard. Wherever you could fall asleep, you can also think. I used to have some of my best ideas at symphony concerts - it's safe, comfortable, and only one faculty needs to engage with the external world.

Not all chronic ailments have yet been cured, but there is promising research in many of those areas, such as lifestyle and environmental factors https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.585744/full, cell based therapy https://research.uga.edu/news/medical-researcher-is-using-our-own-cells-to-cure-disease/ and microbiomes https://research.ucalgary.ca/research/research-plan/infections-inflammation-and-chronic-diseases ; so, no, they're not sitting idle, saying, "You'll just have to manage it." Not all diseases will ever be cured, because as we cure more of them and live longer, new viruses, toxins and malfunctions come after us. What've you got against bus drivers? I do agree, though; patients ought to have a voluntary emergency exit.

Not well, I imagine.

How sure are you that we're not?

Eh? I edit all the time. Three, four times for a single post* If there were a contest for most editings, being the klutziest typist with the crappiest keyboard, I would probably be the champion. *not, as I had in the original version, singlle piost. I've deleted a couple, too, upon discovering that somebody else had better and more up-to-date information on the topic. Life's a beach, baby! You can erase anything from the sand, so long as you beat the tide to it.

No. They would be have 'created' (recombined) a molecule. A big one. RNA-ish or maybe a little more; RNA with ambitions. It's not precisely a living entity, but it's more than just inanimate stuff. Well, that's not going to work in any solar system we could recognize. None of Genesis would. God forgot to make plankton and protozoa, so everything that's built on them - i.e. every kind of life - becomes impossible. No, there really isn't a lot of room for controversy.

Shouldn't that be TSG - the stable genius? He's very far from alone in wanting to change the constitution. But that's not funny.

I loved the dog. I tried reading the scene with the picnic basket aloud to friend once and could not get my voice under control. I just had the most vivid flashback to a German lesson that I did not attend. My mother was in elementary school and they had to translate from their reader. The chubby little girl stood up and declaimed "ich bin eine fette henne" instead of "ich haben eine fette henne". Guess what she was nicknamed the rest of her time in that school? Nope. The language mistress immediately put her foot down and told the class what terrible fate awaited them if she learned that they were teasing that child. There were pockets of civilization, even back in the 1930's.

T.C. Boyle The Women 50 pages in, I'm becoming alienated. Seems he was a right bastard, the great Frank Lloyd Wright. Might put aside and give it another chance when I'm in a benevolent mood.

Well, sure. But not many can carry that off. Especially when the wind shifts.

Hey! I have nothing against them; I wish them all possible luck living on whatever planet is left to live on. Just don't want to be on a panel of beauty contest judges with DJT. (Of course he'll be there: his name is next to God's on all the MAGAGA merchandise.)

Good luck trying to live on Earth by then! He'd been kept in a cool, dark place for only three days, so he didn't look that bad. But most of the "saved" have been underground quite a long time. Be warned: it's not going to be a pretty population. Of course not. I have very different nightmares. Do I have to give just one reason? I can't decide whether it's more horrific or silly.

Of course. Savonarola was ushered in without so much as be asked for ID. So were Torquemada and Cortez. Who wants to hang out for eternity with those guys?

Diagnosing some physical illnesses is much easier and more precise than mental ones. Diagnosing physical illnesses is much easier and more precise than some mental ones. Diagnosing physical illnesses is somewhat easier and more precise than mental ones. Diagnostic capability is increasing * but it's far from foolproof ; lots of physical illness is diagnosed at autopsy - so don't get too cocky! *which incidentally moves some mental illnesses over to the physical camp Like I said before: medicine is still growing.

What the Mayo Clinic has to say. You think so? For two months I was convinced I had an impacted salivary gland. An acquaintance (met while undergoing radiation) was convinced she was cancer-free following extensive treatments, only to die of an undiscovered liver metastasis a month later. Cancer can be pretty tricky, too. I and other people fear many kinds of threat, both imminent and remote, while failing to fear threats of which we should be aware and are not. Putin is still not relevant to mental illness or the soft science of psychology.