I can't find any evidence of whether bassoon players are prone to beget more bassoon players. But it's just as tangential to anything being discussed here as your drift off onto the topic of 'actors.'

I suppose if one started out very very early at reedmaking, though....

The modern 'miniature' dachshund wouldn't stand a chance in a badger hunt, though. It would be a rather pitiful spectacle.

Here in my town they have an annual 'dachshund derby' event that attracts hundreds of dogs from this geographical region. It's disappointing that there are so few full-sized dachshunds left anymore.

I can say he's possibly ambidextrous while logged on.

Hows that.

Your point still comes off as more anecdotal than rigorous.

The Caliphates would have been able to do so. They're gone now.

True. There would need to be very extended long-term separations of population groups for races to result in different species.

How about anthropogenic gravity?

That sounds interesting to discuss.

Right. That is so important. Eugenicists assume way too much authority. The proper answer to them is:

"Who put you in charge? Why do YOU get to pick the important traits?"

Then kick them out unless they stop preaching and start communicating.

I disagree with part of your point, namely that there's no reason for scientists to speak up if they think their results are being misused for political ends. If it were only a scientific problem, then sure, just publish a criticism in the relevant scientific journal and be done with it. But when someone has popularized and politicized scientific work, and done so incorrectly (i.e. with errors or misunderstandings of the results), then scientists *do* have an obligation to speak up in the same forum where the work was introduced.

Ahem. Al Gore.

The 'double blind' test would involve the musician. And the musician would instantly be able to tell. Why would a casual listener's opinion be the one that matters?

I didn't see any programming languages in the list on the summary. Just a bunch of web shit.

My wife watches tons of Star Trek on Netflix. I believe she watched the whole TNG series in order on her Galaxy Tab via Netflix. I saw ol' baldy on her tablet earlier today.

I'm so glad they haven't been permitted to fuck with The Prisoner yet. It's been re-released after cleanup, but they haven't been allowed to fuck with it.

I drink well water. All I pay for is the electricity to pump it to the surface. It doesn't have any significant amount of arsenic in it.

Half arsenic? That would be concentrated enough that it'd be sold to extract and use the arsenic out of it.

There are several whole generations coming up now who don't have a fucking clue.

Yes, I know. Every generational cycle goes like that. I didn't have a fucking clue when I was 20 either.

But the last few cycles have been filled with clueless fucks who think anybody who asks questions during a college lecture that won't be on Friday's test or the Midterm should SHUT UP because they're undermining the process. People who've bought into the system so far that they think brown nosing is a nested recursive process.

We're glad you go that internship at Google (addressed to all the trolls flinging shit in this thread)