I think it was me that started that myth...I wear a size 12...
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Myth Dispelled: Shoe Size, Penis Size Not Linked
by Big Tex in"pull my finger" takes on an entirely new meaning!.
new york (reuters health) .
despite eons of speculation to the contrary, two british scientists have laid to rest the idea that a man's shoe size is in any way correlated to the size of his penis, according to a report in the british journal of urology international.
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CREATIONISM----F.Y.I
by nakedmvistar inin the midst of the debates -- or wars -- concerning the issues of creation and evolution, there is a tendency to over-generalize.
both sides often refer to the opposing side with the broad term of either "evolutionist" or "creationist.
" and yet there exists within both sides a great deal of variety and even controversy.
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Hey rem,
Yeah I've read The Third Chimpanzee. That's a great book! I have also had the honor to meet Jared Diamond at UCLA at the LA Times Festival of Books. He asked my girlfriend where she was from...when she replied 'the Phillipines', he spoke to her in Tagalog. Pretty clever guy, even if it was, as he admitted, the only phrase he knew.
I like him because he doesn't fear to try new things.
As we have seen, his most notable works are almost entirely outside of his own field.
I have yet to read Why is Sex Fun? ...don't know why I'm procrastinating with that one...
And about the extinct Pleistocene mammals...I find them fascinating...I wish I could find more pictures, like of the camels...perhaps it's time for a visit to a Natural History Museum. Recently, I have passed by quite a few such museums without visiting...Washington DC, San Francisco, Gainesville, etc...but we do have a couple in LA.
I am also fascinated by endangered species, like the river dolphins, some of which have very poor eyesight as they live in muddy waters.
cellmould
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CREATIONISM----F.Y.I
by nakedmvistar inin the midst of the debates -- or wars -- concerning the issues of creation and evolution, there is a tendency to over-generalize.
both sides often refer to the opposing side with the broad term of either "evolutionist" or "creationist.
" and yet there exists within both sides a great deal of variety and even controversy.
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cellomould
Extinct species in North America you never knew existed: large armadillos, giant ground sloths, camels, horses, giant beaver, and so many more...
The beautiful armadillo (scientific name Dasypus bellus) was a larger cousin of the modern nine-banded armadillo (scientific name Dasypus novemcinctus) found throughout the southeastern U.S. The drawing above shows an extinct beautiful armadillo in the background with a modern nine-banded armadillo in the foreground.
The body of the beautiful armadillo was covered with armor composed of thousands of bony scutes. These were probably very effective in protecting the slow armadillo from predators.
In the midwestern U.S. the beautiful armadillo has been found at sites from Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri (map). Like many other Pleistocene large mammals, it went extinct approximately 11,000 years ago.
Four species of ground sloths inhabited the United States at the end of the last Ice Age. These were Jefferson's ground sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii), Laurillard's ground sloth (Eremotherium laurillardi), the Shasta ground sloth (Nothrotheriops shastensis), and Harlan's ground sloth (Glossotherium harlani). Of these four only two, Jefferson's and Harlan's ground sloths, are found in the midwestern U.S.
The picture above shows a reconstruction of Jefferson's ground sloth from the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History.
Harlan's ground sloth is reconstructed as looking quite similar to Jefferson's.
Ground sloths were large relatives of the modern two-toed sloths (Choloepus spp.) and three-toed sloths (Bradypus spp.). Unlike modern sloths, which spend most of their time in trees, the ground sloths spent all of their time on the ground. This is fortunate because Jefferson's and Harlan's ground sloth were each about the size of an oxen.
All four species of ground sloth had very large claws. However, all were herbivores. They had relatively small, blunt teeth, which they probably used for browsing on trees and shrubs.
The shape of their hip bones indicates that they could stand up on their hind legs. This would allow them to reach high up into trees for the best leaves and twigs.
All four species of ground sloth became extinct in North America approximately 10,000 years ago. The reason for their extinction is being studied by paleontologists.
Although not common, ground sloths occur in the midwestern U.S. This map shows some of the important ground sloth finds in the region.
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ARE YOU A "MODERN--DAY APOSTATE"?
by minimus inthe september 15th watchtower says: "seeds of doubt can be sown by the media, through the internet,and by modern--day apostates.
" please explain.
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cellomould
i grind my teeth when i sleep sometimes....is that anything like gnashing?
cellmould
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hahahahahahahaha
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ARE YOU A "MODERN--DAY APOSTATE"?
by minimus inthe september 15th watchtower says: "seeds of doubt can be sown by the media, through the internet,and by modern--day apostates.
" please explain.
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Why Does U.S. Know So Much About Iraq's Weapons?
by cellomould inus helped iraq develop biological and chemical arms-report (from reuters 06:22 pm et 02/12/98)
london (reuters) - the united states helped iraq develop its chemical and biological weapons programs in the 1980s while britain sold baghdad the antidote to nerve gas as late as march 1992, britain's channel four television news said thursday.
the program said it had found u.s. intelligence documents which showed 14 consignments of biological materials were exported from the united states to iraq between 1985 and 1989. these included 19 batches of anthrax bacteria and 15 batches of botulinum, the organism that causes botulism.
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cellomould
You make a great point Crazy.
There is another thing to be learned from your example of the change between the Soviet Union and Iraq...'The enemy of my enemy is my friend' is not a wise maxim to use in foreign policy.
I didn't know you lived in Iraq, by the way
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Why Does U.S. Know So Much About Iraq's Weapons?
by cellomould inus helped iraq develop biological and chemical arms-report (from reuters 06:22 pm et 02/12/98)
london (reuters) - the united states helped iraq develop its chemical and biological weapons programs in the 1980s while britain sold baghdad the antidote to nerve gas as late as march 1992, britain's channel four television news said thursday.
the program said it had found u.s. intelligence documents which showed 14 consignments of biological materials were exported from the united states to iraq between 1985 and 1989. these included 19 batches of anthrax bacteria and 15 batches of botulinum, the organism that causes botulism.
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cellomould
lo' and behold, such an article has been published in yahoo news today!
U.S. Supplied Germs to Iraq in '80s Mon Sep 30, 2:31 PM ET
By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer
"I don't think it would be accurate to say the United States government deliberately provided seed stocks to the Iraqis' biological weapons programs," said Jonathan Tucker, a former U.N. biological weapons inspector.
"But they did deliver samples that Iraq said had a legitimate public health purpose, which I think was naive to believe, even at the time."
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Suicide Post from last week - Info Needed
by Celtic inall correspondence regarding last weeks posts on 'chantelle's' suicide conducted throughout with adeles full permission and consultation has resulted in needing more information.. if anyone has any information at all in that this story without permission was passed on to the media, i would like to know about it.
if anyone in fact was foolish enough to pass this onto the media without express permission from adele first, action will be taken to remind any such individuals that you acted bang out of order and to expect consequences resulting from any such action taken.. note to englishman personally: it's ok, the story panned out after posing some investigative questions today, will ring you later with detail.. yours faithfully.
mark price / community action network uk.
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cellomould
you made a public post about this using real names on a public thread ..... and uh ..... asked for it not to be made public
Again, that's not what he was asking. Handing a story to the media is different from making a story indirectly available, even publicly. In the former case, you have a person (or several people) selling a story to a journalist or editor. In the latter case, you allow a journalist or editor to research independently.
The probability that Mark's friend will be contacted very soon has been increased dramatically now.
Isn't it fair for Mark to ask that the issue be let rest for a while? Sure, we can discuss it publicly all we want. This is very unlikely to involve the people closest to the victim. If we try to get more attention for the people closest to the victim, by taking the issue to a remarkably different forum, these people can be directly affected.
Again, they are affected, not because people know about the story, but because more people will want to know about the story. This will necessarily mean the story is retold in first person.
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Suicide Post from last week - Info Needed
by Celtic inall correspondence regarding last weeks posts on 'chantelle's' suicide conducted throughout with adeles full permission and consultation has resulted in needing more information.. if anyone has any information at all in that this story without permission was passed on to the media, i would like to know about it.
if anyone in fact was foolish enough to pass this onto the media without express permission from adele first, action will be taken to remind any such individuals that you acted bang out of order and to expect consequences resulting from any such action taken.. note to englishman personally: it's ok, the story panned out after posing some investigative questions today, will ring you later with detail.. yours faithfully.
mark price / community action network uk.
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cellomould
Posting a story in a public forum does not equate to involving the news media...if a media editor decides to run a story, they don't just grab any publicly available information. It has to be verifiable. They take steps to obtain their own eyewitness account.
Why would the media publish hearsay? This is not saying that the story is false...only that the story is hearsay in this context. (i.e. not admissable in a court of law either)
Mark's friend has the right to deny reporters the priviledge of an interview...if they were to call her. Why not save her the phone calls for now? Let her make the phone calls to the news media when she is ready. I wouldn't say 'shame on whomever leaked the information'; that's not the point. But how about proceeding with caution? As Mark said, his friend consented to public discussion of the story. This is not the same as publication of the story.
Ask your media contacts to wait for consent.
