T_Clark

Thanks.

Also, keep in mind that you fail the Hannah test. You must be at least 20 years older than my daughter in order for me to have any interest in a roman...

I had heard that there had been some alternative scenarios proposed for how the DNA got where it is e.g. Neanderthals and humans having a common Afric...

It has been reported that Neanderthal genetic material shows signs of homo sapien DNA and vise versa. At one point I guess that was controversial, but...

I think I remember from somewhere that, for large mammals, there has to be 200,000 years of separation before populations will no longer be able to in...

I think next time I'll do words which come from American Indian languages that are not proper nouns, e.g. toboggan.

Is that really speciation? Can the different varieties interbreed? Do they? Are they present in the same populations, areas? All dogs are considered t...

Words of the Day - March 28, 2018 American Indian place names: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas Connecticut Illinois Iowa Kansas Kentucky Massachusetts...

It amazes me how much of the US has place names from the American Indians. It's certainly true in New England. I think I'll do put some Indian place n...

I've been on a diet, so I've actually had a lot of practice translating grams to ounces and ounces to pounds recently. You are a lucky man.

Here is my understanding - Darwin believed that evolution is driven by the normal variation in traits in organisms. Not mutations, just the bell-curve...

I think that shows your rigidity and lack of understanding rather than any fault in religious people. You can't separate science from the rest of soci...

So, what is the evidence for speciation? Not viruses, not unusual plant behavior, just regular organisms evolving from one species to another. 1) foss...

Of course, the problem with that is that we have to live with these "ignorant" people. Govern our society together. Live next door to each other. Ther...

I am not a follower of any organized religion. I have no belief in a particular god. The phrase I usually think about in this context is "... endowed ...

I was just demonstrating American's ignorance of the metric system. It's about 28 grams per ounce. 16 ounces per pound, that makes....79 pounds. We ar...

I had never heard or seen the word "gnoseology" before your post where "epistemology" is referenced all the time in a philosophical context. That says...

Lucky boy. Born in the Netherlands. Congratulations. That's like ....23 pounds, right?

Giggle-O perhaps.

It is my understanding he didn't live long enough to learn about Mendel. It is my understanding, maybe, that this isn't true. It is my understanding, ...

I understand, but what took me some time to recognize in school, is the way forces move through the element as a function of position rather than time...

Careful. I think Agustino might be falling in love with you.

Inheritance of acquired characteristics - Lamarckism - is generally described as an explanation for evolution that was supplanted by natural selection...

Would you be willing to read the Bible and give it a fair hearing? I don't think that's likely from people on either side of this discussion. Origin o...

Do you have a good reason for believing that it does? I believe that all living organisms on Earth are related to each other genetically through a com...

Word of the Day - March 27, 2018. Odd's and ends. "Opt" - hate this. Hate, hate, hate. "As such" - Drives me crazy. Correct - CuddlyHedgehog is a hedg...

See my quote from TimeLine above.

You often turn normal human foibles and failures into deep moral issues. Failure and betrayal are not the same thing. What does this have to do with g...

By the way, what is a "crane-head?" Doesn't look like a part to any crane I've ever seen, machine or bird.

I think we've come to the conclusion it is a neologism. Another good, but not new, word. I wonder if the guy who came up with "neologism" enjoyed the ...

In my experience, it is definitely a matter of temperament. Risk-taking adults are risk-taking children and risk-taking babies. There are babies who c...

Never crossed my mind. Really? Hanover? As an example of humor?

Not really the same, but the same sense of envisioning forces: Shear-moment diagram: /uploads/resized/files/mb/honkgk5t9sncujla.gif Mohr's circle - th...

This is from a post that TimeLine made in a different thread. I've never heard the word "Hanoverism" before and can't find a definition on the web.

Here's a link to a story in "Vox." Don't know if you'd heard about this. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/17/15646450/antikythera-mechani...

I'm shocked, shocked, that you would be sarcastic.

I don't want to shock you, but I am not a fashionable person. Aloha shirts are the one place I allow color into my wardrobe. I used to wear them a lot...

Well, since someone re-opened this thread, I get a chance to put something else in. I can't believe I forgot these first time around. /uploads/resized...

Earlier in this discussion, I mentioned the idea of The Commons. Am I correct that you don't find this a satisfactory approach?

Your post brought this to mind. From "Compensation." Emerson. Labor is watched over by the same pitiless laws. Cheapest, say the prudent, is the deare...

I wonder how the word came to also mean "speak carefully." Thanks.

The concept of a right is human, so there's no way to separate an environmental right from a human value. I have a deep feeling that I belong in this ...

It doesn't matter. Do something in the general vicinity of correct. Important - make sure they're not actually breathing before you start.

I wasn't making the case for any particular approach, only that there are mechanisms by which the "rights" of the environment can be protected, negoti...

This discussion is a good idea. This kind of thing doesn't get discussed much here. I'm not sure how much I have to offer, but I'll be interested to r...

In the US, there is a common legal mechanism by which trustees are assigned by the government to speak for the environment. Under the Superfund law, v...

Words of the Day - March 26, 2018. More compound words. Wheelwright. Wainwright. Millwright. Cartwright. Playwright. Shipwright. Plowwright. Are there...

Oddly enough, that creeps me out less. My life is almost over. I have less to lose than TL. She has her whole life ahead of her.

As I've gotten older, I find that I see, feel my life as all happening at the same time. My friends from 10th grade are just as real and present to me...

I don't know if TL is creeped out, but I certainly am. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMUEqRx-C-g