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This off-topic, but I was wondering this today: Are the fossilised shed skins of reptiles ever found?

Try that.

It says it's one measly pixel less in height than the standard image for me.

I'd say that it's still disputed. Wikipedia has a fairly in-depth article on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics_and_Archaeogenetics_of_South_Asia

Well it starts off in your mouth, then travels down the oesophagous, then you accidentally suck it into your lungs, cough so hard it shoots up your nose, then spend the rest of the day pulling weird faces trying to get it out. It pops out of its own volition as soon as you walk past a hot chick. This sounds like a homework question, by the way, if it is then don't use the above answer.

Christmas in winter, how odd. It must make the Christmas BBQ's miserable.

I have no idea of my IQ, but I am as honest as the situation demands.

From the article: 14,000 troops would be positioned nearby in Kuwait and as part of a Marine expeditionary force located offshore in the Persian Gulf to strike at any terrorist camps and enclaves and guard against any major acts that risk further destabilizing the region.

I agree with the first phase, a while ago I put forward a plan that was quite similar to this. I think it's necessary to reduce troop numbers in Iraq in order to deactivate the reserves and allow for proper troop rotations. However I disagree with the second stage, essentially a pull out. I think a long term presence in Iraq would lead to a much more favourable nation. The main argument for the pull out is that US troops stirs up the insurgency. I have no doubt that it does, but perhaps the majority of attacks seem to be on Iraqi police and military now. So I'm not sure if a pull out would relieve that tension, not sure enough to take that plunge.

I just think "He might be the Grinch. He might be friendly with the Grinch" is hilarious.

One thing to consider is that animals are combining their genes with one another through sex every generation. This only happens through horizontal gene transfer with bacteria, which is not as frequent and only applies to a gene here or there.

They certainly change, but not alot in a structural sense. Eukaryotes and prokaryote ribosomes are somewhat different in form. Prokaryote ribosomes tend to translate faster than eukaryote (I think roughly 10 aa's per second as opposed to 4). In addition, the mitochondria have their own ribosome that translates the handful of genes on the mitochondria. So there's clearly been change of the ribosome over time, but it's not as dramatic as the change you'll see in, say transcriptional processes (although that may be more due to the evolution of regulatory processes that occur with transcription). I don't knowm but at the least there needed to be readily available amino acids.

It's used in courting and also as a sign of aggression, I'm not sure what else. Eg courting: http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/viddb/vidsrch3.cfm?ID=133

I don't know because I don't know the truth. I think to some extent that's still being sorted out.

A French team performed a transplant of the chin, lips and nose for a woman who suffered severe injuries after a dog attack. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8399

It's the simplest animal known. That simplicity mightn't mean that it is more primitive than some other animals, such as sponges, though. That's the million dollar question now. Here's the article, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/112149116/PDFSTART

I'd drill a bunch of holes in a line, then drive a wedge into the line they form.

He needs a good kick in the teeth.

I don't know if animals and aviation mix so well, I remember a story a guy was telling me of transporting a race horse while the horse seemed intent on kicking holes in the plane.

Then you take random syllables and create a spinoff company, like say Genicine. The problem is that everyone does this, and they are all using a limited number of syllables, so it starts to get very confusing.

The problem is that the original post assumes that Marxism failed, where you could easily say it never eventuated. The states that emerged from 'Marxist' revolutions were influenced by the local conditions and by the people that implemented them, and were different enough to be considered different systems.

There's nothing to say eugenics can't be based on science. Animal and plant breeding is now relies heavily on science, and they are analogous to eugenics. Eugenics has been shunned since WWII, but they were still sterilisation programs for the mentally ill after WWII in many countries.

Maybe heat to ~70, melt DNA, add some precipitating agent, then let it cool.

I don't think he'll get a majority, but he'll probably have the largest party.

Barak was in the (leftist) Labor party, Netanyahu is in Likud.