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The British historian, Simon Schama, has created a documentary, “The Holocaust, 80 years on.” He details how the Lithuanian people were eager and willing accomplices of the Nazis in murdering the Jewish population that had lived there for generations.
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I keep thinking about the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Nice limo
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Hurricane preparation for a mobile home
1. Clean up your yard
2 Tie down your home with heavy duty cables
3 Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye
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Is there a Russian version of shutting the barn door after the horses have gone?
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I’m not a physician. The RespiClick is an albuterol inhaler. What makes it unique?
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This was horrific. I don’t understand how the pharmacist did not provide him with an alternative that was covered. There are options for asthma inhalers
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See, that’s your liberal bias showing. Should be “Fluoridated Water: Dangerous or Deadly.”
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I definitely agree that the income cap should be raised substantially. However, the person making $20M will not get benefits that are 40 times higher than the person making $50k
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A waste of money
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And now she doubles down pushing Jesus as her savior. I am so fed up with these hypocritical born again charlatans
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You are assuming that increased voter turnout is a desirable outcome. Not so for Republicans
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I would like to know how many members of Congress and the cabinet have donated blood
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So long as the libs are pissed they will be happy.
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It is incomprehensible
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If you like geology, Kilaeua is putting on a show now. Here’s one view
www.facebook.com/share/r/1CUq...
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We were in Iceland recently. (8 days and no northern lights). Two plates are pulling apart and causing all their volcanoes. You could put large stakes on either side of the rift and put big rubber bands on them. Worth trying
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Human nature refers to those behavioral traits that are at least in part hard wired by biology. This includes our capacity for aggression as well as our ability to cooperate
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do, re, mi, fa, sew
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So if you’re high then it’s ok for the police to kill you?
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When I was in graduate school we had a softball team. We were called the receptive fielders and on the back of our shirts it said, “Approved but not funded.”
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What are the leading causes of cellulitis and how does cellulitis differ from sepsis?
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Hopefully it will be brief
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I think it was worse than Dred Scott. Government by the highest bidder
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Packing noodles?
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Check out Cape Split on Nova Scotia
images.app.goo.gl/2ize5H9h238v...
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Can we go back to Mendelian genetics?
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The Bajau people of Indonesia free dive for fish. They have acquired mutations to help them dive for longer times. Interestingly, the mutations may be linked to a Denisovian heritage
www.science.org/content/arti...
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I remember the explanation had to do with camouflage and pollution. As pollution darkened tree trunks, the lighter colored moths were more readily seen by birds and were preyed upon. Darker moths were more likely to survive and reproduce
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I don’t know. Too many of the small government folks are social Darwinists
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How many generations does it take on average for a species to evolve into something different? I saw reports on melanism in English moths that evolved to become darker during the Industrial Revolution in less than two decades
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And we share about 98.8 % of our DNA with chimpanzees
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Could this reflect the (still unexplained) near extinction of humans about 900,000 years ago? I have seen reports that estimate less than 1500 individuals survived some unknown cataclysm and it took 100,000+ years for the population to recover
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What if we look at dogs. All dogs are descended from wolves, but through selective breeding we now have dozens of breeds with a bewildering array of shapes and size. Are breeds in dogs the equivalent of races in people?
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Meaningful is a very interesting word. Clearly, there are superficial phenotypic differences between some geographically separated groups. Complexion and facial features vary. I think we should celebrate this diversity and recognize that the recent changes in mobility will lead to positive change
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How about the folks that crossed the Bering strait and became the indigenous peoples of the Americas. What do we call them from a physical anthropological perspective. They spread into a vast area and a large number of distinct groups. Are they a distinct racial group? I don’t know.
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There is an area in Italy where several families share a mutation in ApoA genes that make them immune to high cholesterol. Despite the obvious benefits of this gene, it has not spread beyond a small region. Accumulations of similar changes in isolated groups can lead to subgroups of Homo sapiens.
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How are tribes and races different?
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Tell that to Darwin’s finches
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Historically, most humans lived close to where they were born and mated within their local group. The Japanese are descended from primarily three ancestral groups and for nearly 40,000 years were a relatively isolated breeding population. A few hundred years of increased mobility notwithstanding
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So all of those humans who left Africa and settled in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Micronesia, Japan and other locales and became isolated breeding communities have no meaningful genetic differences. You can treat people equally without ignoring the changes that have accumulated over millennia
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If you’re posting this on social media, why put the article behind a paywall?
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I understand that genetic variability within racial groups can be greater than the variability between racial groups. How does that imply that race has no biological reality. What about the distribution of Sickle cell disease and other genetic conditions?
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Sorry for your loss
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They are out there
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_...