Horses and Shallow Lakes.Joshua Tuscan

08 Sep

Scientists studying voles (mouse-like rodents) discovered that transferring a single gene, the vasopressin receptor, from the monogamous prairie vole into the brain’s reward centre of a promiscuous meadow vole, would cause that meadow vole become monogamous. Meanwhile, Swedish scientists have studied more than 500 twins and their spouses/domestic partners and have come to find that the vasopressin gene seems to have a similar effect on humans. “The researchers found that men with a particular variant of the AVPR1A gene (that codes for vasopressin in humans) scored lower on the bonding questions and were less likely to be married compared to men who did not have the variant…Also, men with two copies of the gene variant were twice as likely to report having had a relationship crisis with their marital spouse or partner in the last 12 months as men without the variant.

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04 Sep

Retaliation, Indian style.

03 Sep

I hope they show up at my office with gelato and free ipod touches. I won’t turn them away.

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02 Sep

First day. New job.
30 Aug

I think [Obama’s] going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice. He’s going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president; that is to say, he’s going to pick somebody that he thinks will on the margin help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He’s not going to be thinking big and broad about the responsibilities of president. With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years, he’s been able but undistinguished. I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America.

— Karl Rove on selecting a Vice Presidential Candidate

28 Aug
I hadn’t realized that media services were so much cheaper in other modern countries. French citizens get combo package of 100megabit internet/television/telephone for about $45. That’s at least half of what it typically costs US citizens.
I picked this up while listening to this video produced on the McCain technology policy.

I hadn’t realized that media services were so much cheaper in other modern countries. French citizens get combo package of 100megabit internet/television/telephone for about $45. That’s at least half of what it typically costs US citizens.

I picked this up while listening to this video produced on the McCain technology policy.

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Click to see the party.

Click to see the party.

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Del the Funky Homosapien vs. Justice - The Hood Internet

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Find out how much your tax cut would be if Obama is elected as compared to McCain. I’d save $613.76 under Obama vs. $400 under McCain.

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