Recent content by 355113

Yes, because there has been absolutely no genetic drift and no new mutations have arisen in any human population in the past 70,000 years. :rolleyes: Humans are not a monoculture, we are not genetically identical. I'd have too see the number-crunching on that to believe it, and I'm sure you...

I started out on Ubuntu and have also used Debian on an older machine. There's also been brief forays into a few other distros. I'm starting an adventure into Fedora soon, I'll post again on how that goes. I've had negative experiences with OpenSUSE and also KDE in general. It's a bloated pig...

I doubt it. With seven billion people and a fair bit of genetic diversity, it's highly unlikely that any virus would be able to wipe out all of us. Perhaps if HIV could spread like the common cold, since HIV has extremely high mortality rates and long incubation periods, but there even seem to...

I normally consider HFA and Asperger's to be the same thing, for all intents and purposes. My diagnosis is Asperger's.

It's not exceptionally common, but there are a fair number of people who pursue joint MD/PhDs. This, of course, is typically for people interested in the life sciences, not for physicists. Most universities that have joint MD/PhD programs would have about 5 or 6 students per year in that...

In the past almost everyone got smallpox at some point in their life. Due to modern medicine we have lost this relationship with the smallpox virus. Sometimes change is good, and sometimes the "natural" way of human existence kind of sucks. An appeal to what is "natural" will not convince any...

Do these addresses support checking mail from a third-party e-mail client? I already have three or four e-mail addresses and don't really feel like going to the inconvenience of checking all of them in my browser- they're all right there in Thunderbird for me. What ev. I use Linux, I like it...

I would advise against it. And the guy who's pioneering this "treatment?" A bit of sniffling in the springtime is far preferable to hookworm infection. They are parasites, and do not involve themselves in a mutualistic relationship with their human hosts. Sensible people do not deliberately...

Oddly enough, it does not seem to be a familial thing. My father struggles with high cholesterol, and my family history in general would probably tend to be biased towards abnormally high cholesterol rather than low. But yes, I am in generally good health aside from my rather sedentary...

Almost all the information I find online about cholesterol is that one should ideally have a cholesterol level below 200. However, I have also read articles claiming that low cholesterol can also become a health risk. What these articles lack are solid numbers- what is the normal, healthy range...

The AQ and rdos tests aren't bad. I score around 41 on the AQ test. Don't remember the rdos score, but it was definitely pretty strongly in the AS range. The eye expression test isn't really for AS specifically, but IIRC I did quite badly on that one. I don't have a good enough grasp of Spanish...

Not even remotely true. I have no idea where you would have gotten such an idea, but it is completely wrong.

I suppose it is. What other defense mechanisms would there be? I can't think of any off the top of my head.

That seems unlikely, and wouldn't be a goal of mine anyways. I can get along without people thinking I'm a complete weirdo (most of the time) and once I've accomplished that I'd rather focus on other things.

Completely successful? No, not always.