I've been a bit out of the loop what with my spotty internet connections over here in England. I have something to say on the subject of slavery. Contrary to what was asserted, slavery is no more...

>>>"Bachmann, Palin, and Coulter have two copies of the X chromosome. These three women communicate by grunts and hand gestures." - Star Man
>>>"But I certainly agree with the sentiment, if not the...

But they didn't "lose." They simply interbred with so-called "modern humans" from Africa, in a sharing of traits that allowed both strains to survive as a new hybrid.

>>>Hello! They Lost! The basis of evolutionary theory is Survival of the Fittest. If they lost, that means they were not the fittest in their environment.

Not to dispute the tongue-in-cheek...

>>>Bachmann, Palin, and Coulter explained!
>>>Notice that the piece of Neanderthal DNA was on the X chromosome. Bachmann, Palin, and Coulter have two copies of the X chromosome. These three women...

Cool article! White supremacists will spit up their grits when they see it! :xtrmlaugh:

https://news.discovery.com/human/genetics-neanderthal-110718.html

ALL NON-AFRICANS PART NEANDERTHAL, GENETICS CONFIRM

Analysis by Jennifer Viegas
Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:25 AM ET

If your...

https://www.venganza.org/images/noodledoodlewall.jpgAn Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear".


Having...

https://www.cagle.com/working/110630/keefe.jpg

I have mixed feelings. As a Sebastopol resident (and a Stanford man), I'd like to understand better what happened in court in Hobbs v. Jenkel and in the process of the forced sales of Jenkel's...

By now it should be abundantly clear to everybody that Harmony is a 100% locally owned and produced festival. Thanks, Scott, for patiently going over and over this.

I for one appreciate it for...

That is totally false. How many times do I need to say this? Live Nation is not profiting from nor are they influencing the Harmony Festival whatsoever. I have no idea what this website is about or...

From some of these comments it seems that some people apparently missed that the whole Eco Village area was moved off the main field at the Harmony Festival this year, where previously it was in the...

https://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7B2c2e2879-522a-436b-bcb8-e568d99b57d8%7D.gif


https://www.cagle.com/working/110528/keefe.jpg

by Michael Balter
Science Magazine
9 May 2011
https://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/05/were-neandertals-and-modern-huma.html

Researchers have long debated how long Neandertals stuck...

Interesting and amusing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Q3jZw4FGs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Q3jZw4FGs

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4imruU6Zas

Interesting video.... IMO...

You're "...not into the paradigm of sacrificing", eh? I suppose you're not into the paradigm of gravity either? Both gravity and sacrifice are universal laws of life. Nobody likes sacrifice,and...

While I love Jeff--yes, contrary to popular belief, he is a lovable fellow--I would agree with you, sharingwisdom, that his dismissal of ideas he disagrees with can sometimes be a bit too facile, and...

BBC - SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13506289

24 May 2011 Last updated at 03:04 ET
UK Skylon spaceplane passes key review

By Jonathan Amos
Science...

[Advanced climate modeling now shows that even a "small" nuclear war with ONLY 50 bombs would have disastrous effects on global climate that would last for almost a decade. High officials everywhere...

OK, but this argument sounds, ironically, very authoritarian. "Don't argue; do what you're told". Who decides what it means to be "with us" or "against us" (in terms of what beliefs and agenda are...

Yo, Star Man (Hey, aren't you a member of the Justice League of America?)--
I'm substantially in agreement with this analysis. Good ideas. I especially like:

--as it addresses a chronic issue for...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry-LwxR746s&feature=player_embedded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry-LwxR746s&feature=player_embedded


Anybody else have an interesting/amusing story about...

Hmmm...not even if a process which "sacrifices", say, 1000 children saves 10 million of them? Would you recommend we sacrifice the 10 million to lethal diseases to save the 1000 from autism or...

Sonic.net offers Mailman mailing lists to customers, no charge. You can use them as discussion lists, or for broadcast mailings (as long as you are not spamming - people signed up.)

-Dane

Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 million in bailout money to the wives of two Morgan Stanley bigwigs?

https://www.wanttoknow.info/banking_finance/bankers_wives_profit
excerpt

"So...

Spikes in radon gas concentrations have long been one of the earthquake precursor anomalies that seismologists have postulated. The radon is thought to be released from micro-cracks that form as the...

Thanks for the kind words. In spite of mounting evidence that reason rarely changes people's beliefs, I have a sort of childlike faith in it, perhaps because I myself have been reasoned into radical...

This is my first video production and my first YouTube upload! I put it here in the General Community section because it doesn't seem to fit squarely in any other section. Thanks to Patrick Brinton...

you disagree with that? are you suggesting that it's a right of the majority to take away the rights of the individual?? I'm confused...I find it weird that people lump these together. The first one...

https://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26773/

[this is very important - we may be on the way to predicting large earthquakes]

Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake
...

I am sorry to learn you're having such problems. If anyone were to ask me (I know they didn't - lol) my experience with HP printers or HP all in ones, I would say they are the best. I had my first...

No kidding. This seems to have flown under the radar.
Looks like all those boys who had their units skinned to 'reduce the risk of HIV transmission' are really ummm... hosed.
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(As a former judge in California regional chile cookoffs, there is a great deal of truth here, particularly when we'd get a neophyte judge who had not been appropriately 'trained' and just dove in,...

Correction: Ron Paul would not make it a crime to have an abortion. He wants local governments to make that decision not a federal mandate.
Oh, so Ron Paul would not make it a crtime to have an...

My vote for Quote of the Year from none other than my mother (a confirmed technovoid) when being shown the wonders of the internet, solitaire games and nature videos:

"So, this internet/...

from borowitzreport.com:

May 16, 2011

Comedians Beg Trump to Reconsider

20,000 Jokers March on Trump Tower

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – Distraught at the news that Donald Trump will...

When pointing out what you believe to be "mathematical sleight-of-hand", it would be prudent to make sure that you aren't making errors in your own calculations. You have implied that all 300 of the...

Don’t Fall for Ron Paul

by Pham Binh / May 16th, 2011

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul opposed the Wall Street bailouts, is...

[this is big news - antibiotic resistance is growing at an alarming rate]

https://io9.com/mad-science/5801111

Add sugar to your antibiotics and crush superbugs

Esther Inglis-Arkell — Doctors...

Not only do the President and his/our Attorney General know what is happening with the crackdown by the IRS, there have been an escalated series of FBI/DEA raids on Medical Marijuana Clinics, and...

Among the many non-experts who thought about earthquakes, and had an intuitive understanding about some aspect of the subject, a certain number thought as you did, and were eventually proved to have...

And Dixon, may I just say that you looked resplendent in your flowing Atlantishian robe.

:ew:

https://xkcd.com/896/

Claire, I'm not sure how the article you linked to is connected to your snide remark about the "rational scientists of today", unless perhaps you're ridiculing them for admitting they were wrong...

This is great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0

Excellent site and article! NORM has good info too.

Apparently before and after photographs are recommended as well. Big Smile

Seems to me that Obama and Holder must be behind this. It just isn't right. I'd like to see a national movement of withholding financial and volunteer support for Obama's reelection until he comes...

Heh heh heh... maybe we could find a homeopathic remedy and a stem-cell treatment that could grow that thing back! :thumbsup: