Protect the flock! From JP and Hachette!
What are you doing right now?
Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.
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Permalink Reply by EndOfTheEarth on
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Sure. Sorry if the language gives you a headache.
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Received. Again, much appreciated.
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Permalink Reply by Megan (Fishy) on
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Mmk. I can't guarantee that I got everything, but I didn't find many things to correct. Some of it's just things that are technically correct but read better otherwise, too. *shrugs*
Also: "...together on common projects such as a brick wall ..." <--- This sounded funny to me. But I couldn't think of a way to rephrase it, so I left it be. Changes, even petty things like typos, are highlighted in yellow. - Attachments:
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Much appreciated, you got a number that I missed. Thanks.
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I've already found at least four errors. :(
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Permalink Reply by Contradiction on
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I do believe that this year so far (calendar) has changed me more as a person than the whole of last year and the year before combined.
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Anyone who knows a thing or two about biology -- specifically genetics. (Yes, End, I am looking at you.)
Argumentative essay. Pick a position. Due Monday after next.
"Essay should be approximately two pages long, MLA format, and use language specific to genetics and biotechnology.
Is nature (DNA) more important than nurture (home environment) in determining whether a person will be successful or not? What traits rely more on nature, and which rely more on nurture? Argue one side (nature or nurture) and defend your answer."
I'm not starting this tonight, but which side do you think'd be better to argue? What side would you pick? I fail hard at science, but I can argue as long as I have a jumping off point.
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Humans are only marginally controlled by their DNA, very minor things such as sensitivity to pain or a slight increase in aggressiveness or sex drive. Beyond this, environment controls all other aspects of your life from the apearance and attitudes of those you date, to your own attitude (Freud has tons to say on this).
The best example for nurture over nature, though I can't remember the article behind this, is that when human babies are born, they first see the world upside down. The brain then trains itself, in response to it's other stimuli (touch, motion, etc) to see the world right side up. Genetics have nothing to do with it.
EDIT: here's AN article LINK
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Oooh, thank you.
I was considering nurture over nature anyway since I get tired of people telling me that being a drug addict is in my DNA (yes I know it's predisposition -- but you have no idea how annoying this gets) but I never had any real scientific evidence to back it up, so this is great.
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Drug addition is again, behavioral. It's something you pick up and do by conscious choice, and even after it becomes an addition, it's biochemical, not genetic.
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Permalink Reply by nathan_p on
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...perhaps this is a dumb question, but alcoholism runs in my mother's side of the family and she's always used this to tell us kids that we should be very careful with alcohol. Is this bull?
Also I'm fairly sure that -- and yes, this is one anecdote -- I did "get" depression from my mother because we share genes.
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