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Genes that lead to homosex lead also to more hetero women

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:23:56 GMT

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"It helps to answer a perplexing question - how can there be 'gay genes' given that gay sex doesn't lead to procreation?" says Dean Hamer of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who was not involved in the work. "The answer is remarkably simple: the same gene that causes men to like men also causes women to like men, and as a result to have more children."

"The positive effect of an X-linked gene on female fecundity tends to outweigh the negative effect of the gene on male fecundity."

"Genetics is not determining the sexual orientation, it's only influencing it."

Andrea Camperio Ciani and colleagues at the University of Padua, Italy, showed that the female relatives of homosexual men tend to have more children, suggesting that genes on the X chromosome are responsible. Now the team have shown that the same is true for bisexuality.

Idols talks from fans

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:57:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As in other website about stars, the comments are an interesting insight into the emotional psychology between fans and idols

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She's so pretty, i love her hair. But wth is she doing?lol

gorgeous hair.

wow. u guys r sad. cant ppl just live about their lives & not get judged?! apparently not. she has a sense of humor. that's a good thing.

i prefer it is a fake news as well as some magazines said she kept dating rich men from the famous affairs site ★★★www.S u g a r d a d d y C o n n e c t. c o m★★★ in the past weeks. Good luck, Woman!

Ear Reflex Charts

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:12:29 GMT

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Physical Ear Chart

Emotional Ear Chart

Ability in maths can be affected by gender discrimation gaps

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:23:42 GMT

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Boys are better than girls at maths. Or so we all thought. In fact, the gender gap in maths ability might have more to do with the society we live in than biological differences between the sexes, a new study suggests.

In countries where women occupy an equal position to men in society, such as Sweden, there was virtually no gender gap in maths ability. However, in countries with lower levels of gender equality, such as Turkey, the boys performed better in maths tests than the girls.

What's more, the girls produced better reading scores than the boys in all the countries looked at, but did even better in countries with higher levels of gender equality.

Daydreaming equals stand-by on task

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:04:58 GMT

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When a healthy person is daydreaming, their brain is not occupied with specific tasks and the "default network", a series of specific, connected regions in the brain's cortex, kicks in. The network's purpose is still hotly debated but recent evidence suggests it keeps the brain primed and ready to take on new tasks. Problems activating the default network have been linked to cognitive diseases like Alzheimer's and schizophrenia.

American journalist expects little kids to be heroes

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:41:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You can see in the face of the journalist an expectation that these kids were actually really conscious and fully aware of the consequences of reputation that this would have on them later on. The kids cannot be treated as just having reacted emotionally and naturally, and like children, but rather there is an expectation that their behaviour was adult like, adult driven, and adult centered. Again a strong emphasis on a motivation linked to an idea of rescue, the Hero, rather than an instinctual feeling of rescue.

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No blood flow in brain scan, but the comes back to life

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:49:49 GMT

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Dunlap was pronounced dead Nov. 19 at United Regional Healthcare System in Wichita Falls, Texas, after he was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident. His family approved having his organs harvested.

As family members were paying their last respects, he moved his foot and hand. He reacted to a pocketknife scraped across his foot and to pressure applied under a fingernail. After 48 days in the hospital, he was allowed to return home, where he continues to work on his recovery.

"There was no activity at all, no blood flow at all."

To be in contact means you`re a person of influence and have access to valuable information

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:00:19 GMT

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The more connections you have, the greater the assumption that you're a person with influence and access to valuable information, which makes you worth knowing,"

If your e-vite went out to hundreds of people, maybe you'll have a tip about a job opening, a presale event for concert tickets, a sublet -- or a hot friend.

"The e-mail contact list is the modern measure of popularity," adds Lampe. "And popularity is a sexually attractive trait for many species, including ours. We instinctively want what everyone else wants."

Waiting time is shorter if it matches the progress of our anxiety

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:52:36 GMT

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They tested eight different strategies for representing progress of a process that takes 5.5 seconds. Human guinea pigs tested them in a series of 1-on-1 trials, watching one version and then another before saying which they preferred.

Progress bars that gradually speed up, initially showing progress as slow before accelerating to the finish made the wait appear shorter.

Any hold ups or pauses in a bar's progress were tolerated best at the start of a process. And they were most annoying when they happen when a job appears near completion.

Psychology of anxiety explains Shockwave traffick jams

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:16:58 GMT

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"I suspect that the trigger would either be a particular driver who was more nervous than the rest, or a particular location on the circle where the capacity was slightly lower," he says.

Pinpointing the causes of shockwave jams is an exercise in psychology more than anything else. "If they had set up an experiment with robots driving in a perfect circle, flow breakdown would not have occurred. Human error is needed to cause the fluctuations in behaviour," says Rees.

Rees's team at TRL is calibrating detailed models of traffic flow through different road designs to minimise the probability of shockwave jams. One strategy already in use to reduce shockwaves is imposing temporary speed limits, a method TRL introduced on London's M25 orbital motorway.

Derren Brown: subliminal instructions technique

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:42:59 GMT

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If we feel that our brains are being overloaded with information, we panic and start to become confused. In this situation, if we're given a simple instruction, we grasp it like a lifeline. This technique is used in tricks to persuade people to behave in ways that are completely out of character. When commands are issued at the end of a stream of confusing instructions, people are so relieved they can finally understand what's being said that they will do whatever they're told.

Derren Brown: subliminal pattern technique (continued)

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:41:27 GMT

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First, the group of people subjected to the stunt are particularly suggestible. I know this simply because they chose to answer a public phone that happened to be ringing as they walked past. Most people would ignore it, assuming it was nothing to do with them.

Secondly, once the person answers, I immediately bombard them with a rapid set of confusing instructions and facts. I do this for several minutes without giving give them a break, then follow it by telling them to fall asleep. As seen on the shows, this works.

Alcohol changes flies to omosexual behaviour

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:24:44 GMT

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The first time they were exposed to alcohol, groups of male flies became noticeably intoxicated but kept themselves to themselves. But with repeated doses of alcohol on successive days, homosexual courtship became common.

That makes sense, says Ulrike Heberlein, who studies the genetics of alcohol-induced behaviour at the University of California, San Francisco. She says dopamine is central to the neural reward circuits that evolved to motivate animals to seek food and sex, but which are also stimulated by drugs of abuse.

Yodellileahiwooo was used for very distant communication

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:38:14 GMT

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Though yodelling is most often associated with the Alps, and we get the word itself from German, its roots appear to lie well away from Europe. In the 13th century, Marco Polo discovered that Tibetan monks routinely used a form of yodelling to communicate over long distances. Soon after his return to Europe, German and Swiss mountain dwellers began yodelling to each other across alpine valleys. Later, immigrants from Europe took the style ...

Good example of how to cure ignorance by self-projection

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:13:57 GMT

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