... Here's what I sent to the friend of mine that circulated this rubbish recently: Ah, the shaking cactus legend. It's usually full of _little_ spiders, and ...
Daniel Rutter
drutter@...
Dec 1, 1998 8:13 am
9949
This is a common Urban Legend. Read about it at http://www.urbanlegends.com/animals/arthropods2.html Sigurdur Om began to feel the acute depression that steals...
Sigurður GÃsl...
helsi@...
Dec 1, 1998 8:16 am
9950
... Is it possible to distinguish between space and ballistic missile program that completely? I thought that, well, the connections between the two programs...
Markus Poessel
ms4a019@...
Dec 1, 1998 9:51 am
9951
... As an official policy? I really doubt it. If you practice something like judo, sambo (the Russian grappling/throwing art), freestyle wrestling, etc, you...
kfrance
kfrance@...
Dec 1, 1998 10:00 am
9952
... The Volume 4, Number 2 issue of Skeptic magazine has a section on 'evolutionary ethics & secular morality' that you may find interesting. Michael Shermer's...
David K. Wall
darkon@...
Dec 1, 1998 10:56 am
9953
... I suspect the major drive on the military part was in developing the rocket technology. This would be useful for delivering ahh...., "neutralizing agents"...
Wayne Dawson
dawson@...
Dec 1, 1998 12:20 pm
9954
... I will ignore the rest, as it dips deeply into metaphysics, but this first part is interesting from a theoretical point of view. If you "teleport" someone...
Fred
fred@...
Dec 1, 1998 12:29 pm
9955
... I'm not sure what you mean by this last part. If "intelligence" were to be heritable wouldn't it have a similar quantitative contribution across the ...
a.human
a.human@...
Dec 1, 1998 12:30 pm
9956
... Yes, I have it wrong. However, it is confusing because people who think this way seem to mention "the mark" (Cain) with "the curse" (Canaan) all in the...
Wayne Dawson
dawson@...
Dec 1, 1998 1:32 pm
9957
... Welcome to Texas. Remember Lynell Geter (pronounced "jeeter"). He was a young black engineer from out of state, working for E-Systems. Hey, I used to...
John Blanton
john.blanton@...
Dec 1, 1998 1:47 pm
9958
Michael wrote ... There is always a genetic/environment dichotomy. One example of little controversy is height, which is obvously under bothe genetic and ...
Ludwig Krippahl
ludik@...
Dec 1, 1998 3:20 pm
9959
... macro-state ... and C? ... then who ... and C. ... and C. ... means of ... interplay of ... not a ... [snip] IMO you are complicating things unecessarily...
Ludwig Krippahl
ludik@...
Dec 1, 1998 3:20 pm
9960
I think the attitude to children jumped too far the other side from the old one of "little adults". We now don't expect from them any responsibility for their...
Eva Durant
Eva.Durant@...
Dec 1, 1998 3:29 pm
9961
... Good point. It could go either way, depending on what the effect of the environment was, and how much it already varied within the study population. For...
Michael D. Sofka
sofkam@...
Dec 1, 1998 3:35 pm
9962
... Well, maybe 30% is high, and maybe 17% is low. But, the conventional wisdom is that IQ is about 40-60% heritable (genetic), and this study took a big...
Michael D. Sofka
sofkam@...
Dec 1, 1998 3:37 pm
9963
Hi folks, I have agreed to take part in a TV programme, which will be transmitted next year on BBC, UK. It is part of a series called 'Living with the Enemy' ...
Harriett Moore
the.connexion@...
Dec 1, 1998 3:37 pm
9964
... I don't have any on-line articles to point to; I'm an old-fashioned book-person. But I am curious about the way you frame the question as looking for a...
Taner Edis
edis@...
Dec 1, 1998 3:46 pm
9965
... My father is a real life prosecutor, but different than most: former defense attorney (founded public defender's office in middle sized southern US town),...
Paul Bernhardt
pbern7@...
Dec 1, 1998 3:47 pm
9966
... I'm not so sure I agree with you here. It is well known since Kimura that genes with a selective advantage don't guarantee that they survive. Moreover,...
Wayne Dawson
dawson@...
Dec 1, 1998 3:54 pm
9967
... And don't forget the fellow in Chicago who was convicted of murdering a little girl even though they'd faked a confession statement from him, hidden...
Paul Bernhardt
pbern7@...
Dec 1, 1998 3:55 pm
9968
Paul Bernhardt wrote: ... No disagreement about your argument concerning people. However, right now in Texas we have a murderer who escaped and is hiding out ...
John Blanton
john.blanton@...
Dec 1, 1998 4:06 pm
9969
... There is certainly a lot of overlap and shared knowledge. The main difference is, one was a NASA, the other was DoD. ...
James H.G. Redekop
tzoq@...
Dec 1, 1998 4:22 pm
9970
... It is a zero-sum game. Total trait variance in a population is 100%, and we are asking which part of that 100% is due to genes, and which part is due to...
Michael D. Sofka
sofkam@...
Dec 1, 1998 4:33 pm
9971
http://www.csicop.org/bib/462 ... At The Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age Charles F. Emmons 1997, Wild Flower; 268p. anti-science:defense,...
Taner Edis
edis@...
Dec 1, 1998 4:51 pm
9972
NPR ran a story today, and started it with misleading statistics. They started by saying that there are 50,000 telemarketer calling centers in the US, some...
James Lund
jsl21053@...
Dec 1, 1998 5:05 pm
9973
... Is there any evidence of that family history is passed on? E.g., the grandfather is a carpenter, the father is a carpenter, so the son or daughter becomes...
Wayne Dawson
dawson@...
Dec 1, 1998 5:12 pm
9974
... There will never be such a burden on the legal system. Quantum teleportation for macroscopic objects is a fantasy that can't happen in reality. Ron Ebert ...
Ron Ebert
ebert@...
Dec 1, 1998 5:26 pm
9975
... interplay of ... not a ... end, ... stored on ... IMO consciousness is completely inexplicable i.e. there is no known explanation even on a conceptual...
Laurie Forbes
lforbes@...
Dec 1, 1998 6:11 pm
9976
... There was a follow-up on Phys-L to David Emigh's post that addressed this very well. It is copied below. Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 20:48:13 -0500 From: Jerome...
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