Radical Edward

new record! sayonara manages 13 seconds of continuous thought! (you're right by the way)

do they even lack intelligence? granted they lack "knowledge" but alot of poor kids are intelligent. I know of a few people in the "underclass" of the UK and they know more about rare diseases than any doctor, and they know more about social service exploits than even the best accounants and lawyers. you aren't saying these people are stupid are you? misdirected is the word I would use. no, there is no known direct link, though there are hints of it, for example intelligence has been linked with autism, through both the higher instances of autism amongst intelligent couples, and also some fascinating work regarding temporary creation of idiot savants through shutting down areas of the brain with an EM field. no, because what happens is that there is a steady amplification of both the desire and the feature through evolutionary time. In essence this is sexual selection. what you are proposing is a more-or-less saltationary leap in the desire part of the brain, followed slowly by the physical feature. This would require the brain (or rather the genes for the brain) to know what is going to make for the best sexual partner in several hundred generations time, and evolution does not work like that. You could argue that modern day humans are a version of a "superstimulus" but the problem with that, is that many adaptations are also functional, and not purely sexual. For example the human female waist-hip ratio is a sign of her fertility, and also wide hips indicate that she can have a baby safely. Now early humans would not have had such wide hips, since the brain cases were not as large, and hence wide hips would not have been a stimulus for males that is selected for. Breasts might be a different matter though, however it is difficult to say, since no ancient breasts have been preserved. Still though, it is likely that there was an initial link between breasts and fertility, before sexual selection got a hold, and worked towards a larger size.

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well nothing I know of suggests that there is anything wrong with inheriting both chromosomes from one parent' date=' though I did mention imprinting, and that could be a problem. I know about those. come to think of it though, I am rather confused by the opening post. Essentially it asks if monosomy and trisomy can exist in the same zygote and cancel one another out. That would be a chimera. add to that, but gametes don't get "monosomy", they are haploid by default, unless something is wrong with them. so the opening question sounds like if we have a gamete with A and a gamete with AAA, will it be normal, and the anwer is no, because that would produce a zygote with AAAA. however, imprinting aside, if we have a gamete with O and a gamete with AA, it would be normal.

it sounded like you were saying all trisomies were chromosome 21. and how am I contradicting #2?

downs syndome is specifically Trisomy 21. different trisomies have different names, for example trisomy 18 is Edward's Syndrome. others like Trisomy 1 and 2 don't even survive, except in mosaicism.

do bubbles burst underwater though? As I said, my money goes on local temperature variations.

so instead of having a chromosome from the mother and father, you just get both from one parent, right? I don't see why not, though you wouldn't have a gamete with trisomy (since that would be 3 chromosomes in the gamete). The problem I see though is imprinting.

Auton Neurosci. 2002 May 31;97(2):129-35. Pupillary and cardiovascular responses to a video movie in senior human subjects. Ando T, Tanaka A, Fukasaku S, Takada R, Okada M, Ukai K, Shizuka K, Oyamada H, Toda H, Taniyama T, Usui T, Yoshizawa M, Kiryu T, Takagi M, Saida S, Bando T. Division of Integrative Physiology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Japan. The effects of watching video movies on autonomic functions were estimated by measuring changes in pupillary and cardiovascular parameters in 10 senior subjects. The subjects looked at a series of video images (with accompanied sounds) taken during the execution of motor vehicles. The images were rear-projected on a large screen for 15 min. Pupil diameter and parameters of the light reflex were measured by an infrared pupillometer before and after the video presentation. Their electrocardiograms (ECG) and blood pressure were measured continuously. Subjects were divided into two groups depending on their values of blood pressure and fasting plasma glucose level. Subjects in Group A had blood pressures of less than 140 mm Hg and a fasting plasma glucose level of less than 7 mmol/dl (normal group). Other subjects were included in Group B (mild hypertension or diabetes mellitus group). While changes in pupillary light reflex after video viewing were minimal in the members of Group A, amplitudes of the pupillary reflex in the members of Group B varied over a significantly wide range. By the spectral analysis of cardiovascular rhythm, %LF and %HF components of blood pressure rhythm were significantly different between the two groups before video viewing. However, the ratios of frequency components before and after video viewing were not significantly different between the two groups. Our findings suggest that pupillary light reflex was less precisely controlled in subjects with mild autonomic dysfunction after prolonged audiovisual stimulation. ------------------- Percept Mot Skills. 2001 Dec;93(3):797-805. Autonomic reactivity during viewing of an unpleasant film. Baldaro B, Mazzetti M, Codispoti M, Tuozzi G, Bolzani R, Trombini G. Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy. The effect of an aversive, high-arousing film on heart rate, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and electrogastrographic activity (EGG) was investigated. Previous studies have indicated a larger heart-rate deceleration for visual stimuli depicting surgery or blood compared to neutral content, and this phenomenon is similar to the bradycardia observed in animals in response to fear. The heart-rate deceleration is clearly parasympathetically driven, and it is considered a general index of attention. An accurate index of cardiac vagal tone can be obtained by means of quantification of the amplitude of respiratory sinus arrhythmia. The relationship between cardiac vagal tone and EGG is complex, but animal research has shown that suppressing vagal activity dampens gastric motility. We have investigated whether a movie depicting surgery is associated with greater heart-rate deceleration, larger increase in respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and greater increase in EGG activity compared to a neutral movie. In addition, if both respiratory sinus arrhythmia and EGG are indices of vagal tone, a positive correlation between these physiological responses was expected. Analysis indicated an effect of the surgery movie on heart rate and respiratory sinus arrhythmia, but not on EGG activity. Moreover, the expected correlation was not found. Implications for future studies are discussed. ------------ that's all I could find you could look up the full articles, the journals are there. It's an intersting study you have going there, and there are lots of parameters, such as how would a devout christian might react when comparing "the passion of christ" and "the exorcist" for example

consciousness, whatever it is cannot exist (in biological lifeforms like ours at any rate) without a level of complexity which is found in the brain. individual cells do not have this level of complexity.

it is really difficult to find articles pre mid 1980s, since most are not archived electronically. also it looks like an obscure journal, so I suggest going into a university to find there.

they would probably think we are ugly - remember evolution has shaped you to think that humans are pretty. It'S about the same reason that chimps don't lust after Nicole Kidman - evolution has shaped their brains to think that other chimps are desirable.

using all of the brain at once is commonly known as a seizure. Humans do use the entirity of their brain, just not all at the same time. however proponents of ideas such as "humans only use 10% of their brain" may indeed only use 10% of their brain.

Basically it is just a small hydrogen bomb without the uranium-238 jacket. it is a very effective battlefield weapon as well, since the effects drop off rapidly with distance.

any evidence that animals don't have emotions? They seem to express fear, love, jealousy anger and all the other emotions we are accustomed to. The reason perhaps we don't think they do is because our brains are tuned in to understanding human expressions, and interpreting other animals' feelings is inevitably going to be a difficult task (assuming they even have feelings). You cannot simply apply human thinking to animals' functions. The closest I suppose we can understand is the great apes, where we can do a reasonably good job of understanding them because their faces are so close to ours.

my guess then would be to take three cans of coke, open one and drink it and then fill the can with water (as a control) open another and let it go flat. now put all three in a room for a while to let them reach thermal equilibrium with the environment. now open the final can of coke, and stick a thermometer in all three and look for changes in temperature (it would be nice to have a control unopened can of coke. I suppose you could do this by having each in a water bath and measuring the temperature of that) this is a bit redundant though, since we know that when pressure is released like that, the temperature drops enough to freeze things - basic thermodynamics. Also I have seen it, when we used these little canisters of pressurised CO2 as a propulsion device - lots of water froze around the canister. The trick is identifying whether it is anything else, and I don't see anything else it could be apart from local freezing, judging from the experiments you have done so far.

I was hoping you were well keep us informed on the results I would try it here if I could get the stuff, but I doubt my flatmates would approve

have you tried a different gas? Your initial assumption is probably right. There could also be some localised energy fluctuations as the molecules bubble and locally freeze bits of your tongue.

no' date=' I was referring to the seven degrees of {.......} - the idea is that you can link yourself to any other person in the world through seven people, such as my link with George Bush. well that would be the common ancestor of all humanity, yeap. Various groups would have much more recent ancestors, such as indigenous chinese would have a common ancestor much closer to asia.

Here is a nice little article I thought you might enjoy. Get the ingredients and you can even try it at home (YT2095 will love this one no doubt) http://www.nature.com/nsu/040426/040426-5.html

how many (known) steps does it take for you to get to george bush? (no linking through members of this forum, since you can now all do it in at least 4 steps) my girlfriend's father [1] (who I have met) used to work with a close relative [2] of the former chinese leader [3] who has met George Bush [4]. I can even do it in 3, but through a less interesting channel. One of my lecurers [1] has worked with Tony Blair [2] who has met George Bush [3]

this reminds me of the seven degrees of whoever. I notices a startling fact that I can get to George Bush really quickly; my girlfriend's father [1] (who I have met) used to work with a close relative [2] of the former chinese leader [3] who has met George Bush [4]. I can even do it in 3, but through a less interesting channel. One of my lecurers [1] has worked with Tony Blair [2] who has met George Bush [3]

Would it be ethical to create a human chimp hybrid, if it could be done even with a bit of genetic tweaking to the gametes of one or the other? If this resulted in offspring, what rights should the offspring have? how would this impact the rights of primates? Could this be an important experiment to clarify the rights of our closest relatives in the animal world? your opinions please.....