In a message dated 8/31/01 10:07:26 PM Central Daylight Time, dskryja@... writes: "[...] countercurrent heat exchange conserves heat nicely despite bare...
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Jim Bechtel
jbechtel@...
Sep 1, 2001 5:37 pm
In all-day "faculty development" workshops yesterday at the college. Ug. The only one that wasn't boring was one on globalization. The instructor & I chatted...
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Jim Bechtel
jbechtel@...
Sep 1, 2001 5:55 pm
Dave S is too modest to blow his own PhD horn, but his thesis was on mice --he's dissected his share-- and he's raised thousands of them in his University's...
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Tall Trees
ljustice@...
Sep 1, 2001 9:07 pm
September 1, 2001 I found the new book THE CONSPIRATORS by Al Martin very revealing as it exposes the government sanctioned narcotics trafficking, illicit...
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DAVID MCCORD
mccord@...
Sep 2, 2001 5:39 am
... Below is some dialog between myself and a young member of my MENSA group. I thought you might be interested. Toodles. David M....
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Skryja, David
dskryja@...
Sep 2, 2001 5:43 am
I'm still voting for the climbing hypothesis, that these rodents use the bare tails as fifth climbing appendages. The only problem with it, and it's a pretty...
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Jim Bechtel
jbechtel@...
Sep 2, 2001 7:41 pm
Richard Dawkins, author of some of the pioneering works in sociobiology, especially The Selfish Gene and Climbing Mount Improbable. A stanch skeptic (and...
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Mark Wooge
mwooge@...
Sep 2, 2001 11:55 pm
... Not that I know what I'm talking about, but I think rats don't have prehensile tails....
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Brenna Primrose
absolut_contagion@...
Sep 3, 2001 1:04 am
WOW, another Creighton person! What department do you work in? The Creighton address book isn't revised for this school year yet. Brenna ... same ... ...
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Brenna Primrose
absolut_contagion@...
Sep 3, 2001 1:05 am
Required (and good) reading was the Dawkins' book in BIO 212 here at Creighton. Brenna ... sociobiology, ... skeptic ... drive...
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Skryja, David
dskryja@...
Sep 3, 2001 1:06 am
They're not prehensile, not like opossums or spider monkeys, but when rats climb, they use them for support and balance, pressing them against available...
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Bart W
MrSciTrek@...
Sep 3, 2001 1:32 pm
Thanks, David, for the summary counterpoints. Bart ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video...
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Clayton Naff
claynaff@...
Sep 3, 2001 1:53 pm
Hi, there, REASONnaires, I've been frantically busy with work, and there's no sign that it will let up. All the same, I'm trying to keep one oar at least in...
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john bechtel
dsidnt@...
Sep 3, 2001 2:18 pm
Tall Trees wrote; ... Sounds like an expansion of the work Gary Webb did for the San Jose Mercury News, for which his career was destroyed. I suppose if you...
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Jim Bechtel
jbechtel@...
Sep 3, 2001 2:23 pm
If prayer makes plants grow, do you suppose curses would slow down the growth of my grass so I won't have to mow as often? ... From: Clayton Naff...
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jopollack@...
Sep 3, 2001 2:58 pm
This topic has attracted an amazing amount of speculation so far. << They're not prehensile, not like opossums or spider monkeys, but when rats climb, they use...
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Scott Foley
sfoley@...
Sep 3, 2001 4:06 pm
Tell me that this is in the September issue, the August is still on the stands. ... From: "Jay Cooper" <jay.cooper@...> To: <Reason-Omaha@yahoogroups.com>...
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mpackard@...
Sep 3, 2001 5:13 pm
Nice to hear that someone seems to acknowledge that fraud, corruption and the abuse of power are found among all political groups. It has seemed in the past...
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BioMedNet
sandygoodman@...
Sep 3, 2001 6:26 pm
Personal message: Interesting article on attempts to generate life from scratch. SMG The following article from HMS Beagle has been sent to you by Sanford...
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Larry Forst
leforst@...
Sep 3, 2001 6:30 pm
Oh no! Clay, gosh we thought you were doing it all. We haven't accomplished much but get the room reserved. Sorry. Just practicing up on my dramatic writing...
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REASON - Omaha
reason01@...
Sep 3, 2001 8:03 pm
Bulletin # 76 (3 September 2001) http://www.rationalistinternational.net IN THIS ISSUE IRAN: FILM MAKER TAHMINEH MILANI ARRESTED TIMES REPORT ON SAI BABA -...
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Skryja, David
dskryja@...
Sep 3, 2001 8:33 pm
True, all features aren't necessarily the product of natural selection, but hairlessness in terrestrial mammals isn't a general feature, and I'd say it ...
pg 85, October issue of Discover magazine A brief review of the book- “The Splendid Feast of Reason,” by S. Jonathan Singer, Univ of Cal Press, $24.95 "In...
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Jim Bechtel
jbechtel@...
Sep 5, 2001 3:07 pm
Wow, this is so sci fi! Using translating machines to communicate over a web of computers! When you think about it, it's amazing! When I get some time next...
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Ken Munzesheimer
munzesheimer@...
Sep 6, 2001 5:47 am
Speaking of rats, I am reading this book on disasters which has a section on the notorious black plague which struck first in the Middle Ages around 1347. In ...
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sgcol50326@...
Sep 6, 2001 11:32 am
In a message dated 9/6/2001 12:48:26 AM Central Daylight Time, ... So: is that where the term "rat - ionality" comes from? (Ugh!) SGC...
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Bart W
MrSciTrek@...
Sep 6, 2001 1:01 pm
Hey, thanks for sharing that. ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with...
