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- Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:47 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 959
- Views: 288912
Prim, my boss went away back in January to do just that. Not only are grants reviewed by fellow scientists, but preferential treatment is NOT given to the famous guys. There's a famous story in the RNA community of a Nobel laureate who moved to the US after winning his prize. He was shocked to disco...
- Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:39 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 959
- Views: 288912
- Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:53 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 959
- Views: 288912
Yes, and that's very detrimental to science in general. The hot fields (like climate change) are snake pits already. No need to get politicians involved. Scientists do a fine job of eating each other alive. It's hard to get anyone to agree to anything in science land, so when large groups of scienti...
- Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:36 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Women in Society
- Replies: 215
- Views: 58034
- Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:25 pm
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign (was Obama Phenomenon 2)
- Replies: 3054
- Views: 724087
Not to mention the loss of New Orleans and the general devastation along the Gulf Coast in 2005. The storm was no one's fault. The human disaster surrounding the storm and the aftermath was a result of a conglomeration of things, but the federal response was a bungled mess and remains a bungled mess...
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:54 pm
- Forum: The LOTR Discussion
- Topic: Book 1, Chap. 2: The Shadow of the Past
- Replies: 124
- Views: 128979
- Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:15 am
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: Delegate Mirth ( the end has come! )
- Replies: 445
- Views: 183770
- Sat May 31, 2008 5:34 am
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Female religious leaders
- Replies: 221
- Views: 83697
This reminds me of something my mother said once, about the church she went to as a child. It was a Presbyterian church in a small town back in the 50's and 60's. There was much discussion over whether or not women could serve as elders. Oddly enough, it was the women of the church who finally squas...
- Sat May 31, 2008 4:37 am
- Forum: The LOTR Discussion
- Topic: Book 1, Chap. 2: The Shadow of the Past
- Replies: 124
- Views: 128979
So I've read and I've thought... The Ring's a complicated thing. It's an inanimate object, yet it also has a strange power, almost a will, of its own. It's a piece of Sauron himself, in a way. He created it. I think everyone here would agree that when you create something, a bit of yourself goes int...
- Sat May 31, 2008 4:04 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Endangered Species Day and the lesson of the Thylacine
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13931
- Fri May 30, 2008 10:20 pm
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign (was Obama Phenomenon 2)
- Replies: 3054
- Views: 724087
Faramond, it sucked. I never want to do it again. If I hadn't been wearing a helmet and an enormous backpack I probably wouldn't've walked away. And the worst of it was, my bro and I had no idea that cliff was even there. The 7.5' maps have lines drawn for every 40 feet of elevation change; this thi...
- Fri May 30, 2008 7:49 pm
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign (was Obama Phenomenon 2)
- Replies: 3054
- Views: 724087
My grandmother died rather suddenly the day before the war began. It was a cruddy week. I had a sick feeling in my stomach, watching the bombs go off over Baghdad and at the same time feeling relieved Grandma didn't have to see this. She did not approve of the war. I'm glad she didn't have to see it...
- Fri May 30, 2008 2:07 am
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: Cast Speculation
- Replies: 663
- Views: 175140
- Fri May 30, 2008 1:56 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Discrimination against the obese (and related issues)
- Replies: 78
- Views: 29528
I read about that case and it made my blood burn. I hope it gets reversed. I really hope, from the standpoint of medical ethics, it gets reversed. What next? If your doctor is a Jehovah's Witness he or she can deny you a blood transfusion? It's not as if someone who is bleeding out can just get up a...
- Fri May 30, 2008 1:38 am
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: Cast Speculation
- Replies: 663
- Views: 175140
I had the same reaction when I envisioned nineteen more years of being parented. :P When I was 18, I was ready to fly. I think my parents were also ready to be rid of me, to a certain extent. My relationship with my family improved dramatically after I left home. I actually ended up making decisions...
- Fri May 30, 2008 1:28 am
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: Cast Speculation
- Replies: 663
- Views: 175140
Only if they raise the drinking age to 36 and the driving age to 31. And the restricted movie age to 32. Got to keep things proportionate. And you have to stay under your parents' wings until you're 33 too, because if you're not responsible enough to show up at a poll and check a box you have no bus...
- Thu May 29, 2008 10:09 pm
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign (was Obama Phenomenon 2)
- Replies: 3054
- Views: 724087
- Thu May 29, 2008 9:43 pm
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign (was Obama Phenomenon 2)
- Replies: 3054
- Views: 724087
- Thu May 29, 2008 4:34 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: Cast Speculation
- Replies: 663
- Views: 175140
- Thu May 29, 2008 8:47 am
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign (was Obama Phenomenon 2)
- Replies: 3054
- Views: 724087