I left my comment before I saw the movie on HBO. I think the movie was very well done, and very moving. I feel very sad for the Lacks family, poor in so many ways, and I still feel they deserve something, but I don't know what or how much. The author of the book is a woman of integrity and a true friend to the family.
Nathan Natas
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by snowbird inmy sister, who lives in atlanta, told me about this book today.. it is on my must-read list.. syl.
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Guys ... Be honest here ... Do you ever Pee in the bathroom sink
by RubaDub inlast month i got caught by my wife after a late night out with her (and some drinks).
i guess i am evil.. just wondering if anyone else has had this misfortune.. rub a dub.
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Nathan Natas
Snowbird said, "Urine is a good disinfectant."
I don't think that is correct.
To be a disinfectant, urine would have to destroy bacteria. There is no evidence that it does this.
It is even debatable that a person who is not ill has sterile urine. Even if it was sterile, "sterile" means "free of bacteria," not "destroys bacteria."
There have been instances in military field medicine when medics used human urine. Henry VIII's surgeon Thomas Vicary recommended that all battle wounds should be washed in urine. Urinating on a wound to clean it in an emergency has become fodder for urban legend, but new research debunks the idea that urine is sterile.
Urine is not sterile, even before it comes out of you and gets contaminated by your skin. Bacteria are present at low levels in the urine of healthy people not suffering from a urinary tract infection.
But if "golden showers" are your thing... take a regular shower afterwards.
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Guys ... Be honest here ... Do you ever Pee in the bathroom sink
by RubaDub inlast month i got caught by my wife after a late night out with her (and some drinks).
i guess i am evil.. just wondering if anyone else has had this misfortune.. rub a dub.
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Nathan Natas
HOORAY!
The "edit post" function is working again!
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Site Updates
by Simon injust a heads-up that i will be testing some updates this evening.. the nature of the changes means it's difficult to test every scenario in advance offline (translation: it's a lot more effort and i just can't be bothered) so i'm going to go with the "wing-it" approach:.
deploy, check for errors, try to fix errors before anyone else notices them.. i can switch between the new and old version pretty quickly so if there are significant issues, i'll rollback and revert the changes while i work on the fixes.
worse case is the pages won't display quite right (dates might be a giveaway) but a full page refresh should fix things.. http://www.refreshyourcache.com/en/home/.
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Nathan Natas
I noticed (as King of Typos) that the edit function is not available for new comments.
I shall live in shame.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by snowbird inmy sister, who lives in atlanta, told me about this book today.. it is on my must-read list.. syl.
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The medical establishment, who took a figurative "pound of flesh" from Mrs. Lacks were untroubled by the ethics that permitted the medical establishment to profit while Mrs. Lacks was left to live as though their family name was their destiny. Is this right? Couldn't the impoverished Lacks family be provided with at least a minimal, non-zero compensation?
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by snowbird inmy sister, who lives in atlanta, told me about this book today.. it is on my must-read list.. syl.
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Nathan Natas
So. it could be said that Henrietta Lacks left an inheritance to everyone EXCEPT her family?
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What was it like being a JW in the 1960's and 1970's
by UnshackleTheChains inthis is obviously a question for the older generation.
i'm really curious what it was like to be a witness in the 60's and 70's?.
was the society as strict as it is today?.
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Nathan Natas
It was FUCKING GREAT! </sarcasm off>
My introduction to JWism started in the late mid-1950s. It is the reason I am such a cuddly curmudgeonly XJW today.
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New York's Bethel tunnels are no more . . .
by neat blue dog inhttp://www.brownstoner.com/neighborhood/brooklyn-heights/jehovahs-witnesses-brooklyn-heights-tunnels/.
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Nathan Natas
I wonder if The Watchtower had to take responsibility for getting this done as a condition of sale. I ca imagine that if the tunnels were allowed to remain, they would create property tax issues for the new owners.
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What the heck is CLAM?
by undercover ini guess it's a good thing that i've been 'out' of this crazy religion so long that i'm not hip to newer buzzwords.... ...like, clam i'm guessing it's not a fun time at the beach, looking for shells or whatnot.. so, what is clam?.
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Q.: What the heck is CLAM?
A.: CLAM is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs. The word is often applied only to those that live as infauna, spending most of their lives partially buried in the sand of the ocean floor. In particular, edible infaunal bivalves are often called clams. Clams have two shells of equal size connected by two adductor muscles and have a powerful burrowing foot.
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Why Were the Anabaptists Not Chosen by Jesus in 1919?
by berrygerry inwt acknowledges their lack of neutrality during ww1, and previously stated that this was followed by a period of refining.
however, they were still the one group that far-and-away were the only ones that were practicing first-century christianity the most closely, as well as being the only group trying to do so.. interesting read about the hutterites ( http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapters/courtsandcolonies/chapterone.pdf ).
, especially this quote about ww1:.
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Nathan Natas
Huh, ain't that sumthin, V.I.!