Random links
- DNA’s ‘Junk’ Now Seen As Lever Controlling Health
- "Scientists previously thought that only genes, small pieces of DNA that comprise about 1 percent of the genome, have a function. The new findings show that an underlying circuitry exists in which 80 percent of the DNA code within each human cell can contribute to disease. This may be why large studies targeting gene variants haven’t identified treatable causes for many complex maladies, the scientists said. The circuitry can be disrupted at several individual waypoints."
- We never talk any more: The problem with text messaging
- "Part of the appeal of texting in [some] situations is that it's less painful — but the pain is the point. "The complexity and messiness of human communication gets shortchanged," Turkle says. "Those things are what lead to better relationships."
Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues." The story mentions that "Americans ages 18-29 send and receive an average of nearly 88 text messages per day, compared to 17 phone calls" - my phone doesn't get used all that often for that sort of thing - I treat it primarily as a data connection. - Stanford researchers' cooling glove 'better than steroids' – and helps solve physiological mystery, too
- "The temperature-regulation research of Stanford biologists H. Craig Heller and Dennis Grahn has led to a device that rapidly cools body temperature, greatly improves exercise recovery, and could help explain why muscles get tired."
- When Rapists Seek Joint Custody of the Children They Father Through Rape, Everyone Loses
- "Though instances of rapists seeking or even obtaining joint custody are apparently pretty rare, only 19 states have laws restricting the parental rights of men who father children through rape — everywhere else, men are technically allowed to seek such rights, and even if they don't intend on actually being part of their child's life, rapists have been known use the threat of joint custody as a way to blackmail their victims into not filing criminal charges." (The same also applies to male rape victims - albeit there being forced to pay their rapists rather than losing partial custody).