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"White Lies" was okay, but then I watched some of "Across The Tracks" and disliked the hackneyed bad boy image.

My bad. imatfaal posted an artist, but I thought it was a song. Grizzly Bear is good though. "Southern Point"

Child who was gestated artificially I read that and went, wha... guh... zuh?

Perhaps oxytocin facilitates bonding, but what about postpartum psychosis and depression? Adopted children seem fine to me. If it is healthy for mothers, so what? For the fetus, artificial gestation gives us control over its nutrition. No more fetal alcohol syndrome! And no need to smell toxins with olfaction, which is on its way out for humans anyway. You speak of milk. Natural human milk might be superior to formula, and so might a natural placenta, but only if the fetus-carrier is responsible. Is your argument that our current understanding of gestation is insufficient for reproducing a healthy pregnancy?

I just read the two ethics papers. "The Moral Imperative for Ectogenesis" explains why developing this technology is important. Gestation entails many burdens and risks, and is in some sense like a nine-month illness. While the child is often produced for the couple, it is presently the woman who must bear these burdens. Contrastingly, our "conception of the good life" is often "instirically tied up with" having genetically-related offspring, yet many people can't except by employing a surrogate, which can be highly problematic e.g. if the surrogate becomes attached. The "Third Era" paper was drawn out and dumb. However, Welin makes the point that, while ectogenesis does mean the fetus would be viable at conception, this option could reduce the conflict. With the fetus outside, the woman's good health, activity level, eating and drinking habits are all unhindered. It could also mean more power for the father. Beyond humans, the researchers who artificially gestated a wobbegong shark hope the same technique could raise numbers for the grey nurse shark. I wonder whether it could allow us to resurrect species without a female of that species, nor even a closely related surrogate. In theory, they would only need some fertilized eggs! Why's nobody doing this with elephant embryos? We still have the frozen mammoth DNA, right? Regarding the cost of developing the technology... http://www.wired.com/2011/09/artificial-shark-uterus/

Apparently mother-infant attachment can still be facilitated.

Or surgerically repair the stretching...

Don't trust the first website, nymeta. https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/nymeta.co WIRED article on artificially gestated sharks. http://www.wired.com/2011/09/artificial-shark-uterus/ A New Artificial Placenta With a Centrifugal Pump: Long-Term Total Extrauterine Support of a Goat http://www.jtcvsonline.org/article/S0022-5223(98)70401-5/abstract?cc=y= No luck on overviews of current neonatal care techniques, but... Death in the neonatal intensive care unit: changing patterns of end of life care over two decades http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672727/ Regarding the ethics... The Moral Imperative For Ectogenesis http://annasmajdor.me.uk/ectogenesis_final.pdf The source on this one looks sketchy, but it purports to be a credible paper. Reproductive ectogenesis: The third era of human reproduction and some moral consequences http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/Reproductive%20ectogenesis:%20The%20third%20era%20of%20human%20reproduction%20and%20some%20moral%20consequences.pdf

......... Classical conditioning can bring about the most peculiar fetishes. I just accidentally violated my science-only commitment after overdoing the caffeine, but this is it. No more The Lounge for me.

I thought I would add this study just to pile on the evidence even more. The Eyes Have It: Sex and Sexual Orientation Differences in Pupil Dilation Patterns (Rieger, Savin-Williams, 2012) "An infrared gaze tracker automatically recorded for each participant both pupil size and degree of dilation. (Rieger, Savin-Williams, 2012)" Dilation to same-sex was positive scored, to opposite-sex, negative scored. See Figures 1A and 1B. They explain how only the female data exhibit a "curvilinear" relationship. In the female data, opposite-sex preference levels off so that heterosexual females never exhibit as strong a preference as lesbians and men. This strand of the discussion addressed whether females like gay men, but perhaps there's more to be gleaned. A woman who's had same-sex relationships may still be as heterosexual as any other woman. Who knows, she might even be healthier!

Shipwrecks have been a selective force for ~5,000 years.

youtu.be/7f-v4f2uuDg?t=4m39s

Your politics is everywhere, iNow.

Politics is non-experts acting like experts.

Czardas... on mandolin

Okay, something formal that we can all enjoy. "Czardas" on baritone youtube.com/watch?v=RVOBQBamjDA Wikimedia's version is better! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USAFB_Czardas.ogg

I've wanted a Ubuntu / Libreoffice solution for some time. After shuffling through the /usr/lib/libreoffice/ files without finding my custom dictionary, I've realized that Robotux could easily be programmed to add an entire list of words. Robotux is 3 dollars.

Some of Cohen's music is interesting, but why does he dress like that!?

Merry Yuletide, Mr Moon et al.

Okay, haha, joke's up. You can call off the angry mob now.

I don't quite understand the question, [...] A hypothesis (or theory) is a (unifying) explanation that can be used to make further predictions. Without one, you're just left with data. Data on its own is less meaningful. Data always depends on some aspect of the sampling procedure (how, where, when...... what). In addition, summary statistics, particularly measures of central tendency, may oversimplify a complicated pattern if a variable is not normally distributed, or if variables are oversimplified (e.g. yes or no). And statistics don't necessarily establish what causes the relationship. Remember that list from the opening post? I'm getting out of this thread now.

Does Altemayer propose any testable hypotheses? I mean anything that doesn't circle back to his self-rating scales?

How about, "Stars may seem charming and innocent, until they explode their stomach inside you."

Suspension feeders are so interesting... and so are star fish.