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To encourage efficiency, I'm setting my deadline to Dec 4. I'm studying up on neuroscience!

And should we really dissolve more of their budget if the research is for a good cause?

ResearchGate hosts some non-peer-reviewed or green open-access articles.

title completely misleading??

Come to think of it, some of the fossils probably are mutants? How do you know you're not looking at a conodont with trisomy?

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

spontaneous abortion That's why trisomies 21 and 18 are the only kinds. All other trisomies have a 100% spontaneous abortion rate.

The larger the sample sizes (data sets), the more convergent your results will be.

I tightened the restrictions on multiple words. I'll start it off then. Amniote meat coin I rearranged amniote while inserting a "C", since I'm trying to reach "particle". I was allowed to split it into two words because each word was 4+ letters. This is my turn, but I'll provide more examples. I did a substitution, a replacement of the B with an S. Since a B was deleted, it cannot be reinserted next turn, whether through substitution or insertion, unless you are imatfaal. These grants of permission may be as specific, loose, or conditional as you like. I'm allowed to do 3 deletes because it's 10 letters (7+3), but in that case, I cannot insert new letters. Since I deleted a D, I, and A, these letters cannot be reinserted next turn. This is wrong. There were duplicates of the F and E, and those were distinct units. I did more deleting than I was allowed to.

Acronyms can be useful mnemonics, but they require anagram skills. Hence the game I would like to try. This post contains the rules for round 1. Each post gives an anagram of the above word with a tolerance of 1 insertion, 1 substitution, 1 deletion, or however many deletions to reduce the content to 7 or more units. Deleted units can't be reintroduced next turn, unless that user gives permission. Duplicate letters are distinct units, and only letters count as units. If you do multiple independent words, each word must be 4+ letters. The aim is to rearrange your way to your team's word. No double posting. If a questionable word isn't accompanied by a reputable dictionary/encyclopedia entry, you have 8 hours to do your own dictionary search to invalidate that post. For example: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/galactase?s=t&path=/ Team 1: Particle Team 2: System Starting Word: Amniote If you dislike these words or rules, speak soon or else wait until this round either ends or stalls for 1 week.

He died more than 40 years ago...

The pbs one said I needed a plugin.

Quoting the Sam Harris link. Can they?

Okay, yes. The problematic reputation system was not the ultimate reason for Ophiolite's exit.

rep war!!

Weeeeee!!!!!!! http://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/brain *gasp* Hit the play button, and it goes Immortal on you!

The current rep system gives the sum of all reps from all members. If you're remembering who gave which rep anyway, you might as well make the calculation more resistant to outliers. Besides, wouldn't it be fun to incorporate statistics into a science forum? Have it show the rep standard deviation!

"This statement is false" does not pertain to any part of the objective world. It's describing the status of one semantic formulation within a formalized, intersubjective, rule-based system. It challenges our current application of truth values, i.e. our current axioms, but not the grounding upon which "truth" rests.

Are there different forms of factoring? A denominator is the expression on the bottom of a fraction. A factor is something that an expression is divisible by. You can factor numbers or expressions, even expressions that contain unsolved variables. To factor an expression involving addition or subtraction, you must find a common factor, which I'll call just c for convenience. You divide each part of the expression by c, and put the new expression into parentheses with c on the outside. For example... screw it... http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/factoring.html Do you have any other specific questions?

Any longtime member knows that you're knowledgable, Oph. Any user can get a good reputation by preaching to whatever choir will hand out reps for it. It's called socially desirable responding.

Physica and Dekan, I share your concerns with complications, but this may not require a comprehensive neurocognitive theory since the aim is to disrupt, rather than rewire. The patient won't get aroused to adults, but loss of eroticism will still be a gain considering their prior predicament of experiencing arousal to human juveniles. Hopefully this effect could be achieved with negligible side effects, although, as Willie pointed out: I like to search DuckDuckGo with the affix "site:nih.gov". I'll report back on this research paper. Neurological control of human sexual behaviour: insights from lesion studies (Baird, Wilson, Bladin, Saling, & Reutens, 2007) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2117556/

Merry Yuletide, Mr Moon et al.

I look forward to it, Willie.

This assumes we're getting his consent. This is not punishment, John; this is treatment. If he cannot control himself, then he must undergo treatment regardless (if he's to rejoin society). If it was a willful act, then he must be punished regardless. If we want to permanently alter his brain despite the willfulness of his act, then maybe we ought to consider a life sentence. However, the concept of self-determination may be slightly gray here. He's not psychotic, so he knows what he's doing. Although some subjects may lose control under some circumstances, they're presumably aware of this defect. Hence the crime at least shows a lack of motivation, if not total disregard. This brings me back to Imatfaal's point that was left unaddressed. If their judgment becomes temporarily impaired under certain circumstances, this may be their motivation for seeking the treatment that would otherwise be forced upon them after the fact. Yet there may be other sources of distress even for those who easily control themselves. A lack of self-control may be a convenient explanation for why so many engage in this harmful behavior, but it still needs to be supported with evidence. It saddens me that they're disposed to do harm, which is why I want to fix them, but I don't think we should be lax in punishing a willful act. Yet it remains true that we all influence eachother. Punishment can't be the only way to reduce crime.

I would side with you, but I was pointing out the oddity of rewarding a criminal act. Generally, the younger the person is, the better their brain will cope. Those with this orientation may be identifiable through phallometric testing. 45 years ago "Stereotaxic surgery enables small areas of nervous tissue to be accurately located and destroyed and the desired physiological changes to be produced with minimal unwanted disturbance." "Apart from a transient rise in gonadotrophin in one patient no postoperative metabolic, endocrine, or autonomic disturbances were noted." Anonymous (1969). Brain Surgery for Sexual Disorders. British Medical Journal. Although I don't know whether deep brain stimulation would be the way to go, here is an article on DBS describing the risks of brain surgery today. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0004693/ You would prefer a lifetime of social isolation to trying the surgery?