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This research is showing that a parent who smokes passes on changes in DNA that may manifest two generations later. The study is about asthma, but this link suggests anything you might do to your body prior to conceiving a child might effect on all your progeny.

Conditioning Research: scary epigenetics….you suffer because your grandad smoked?

Germline epigenetic marks imposed by exposure to nicotine during pregnancy can become permanently programmed and transferred through the germline to subsequent generations, a ground-breaking finding that shifts the current asthma paradigm, opening up many new avenues to explore.

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Ha ha! Punk rock! Baba Booey!

Doug Stanhope impersonates John Lydon for Huffington Post interview | Punknews.org

Standup comedian Doug Stanhope impersonated Sex Pistols and Public Image Limited frontman John Lydon after a Huffington Post interviewer erroneously called him twice. Stanhope described the exchange via his official website.

There’s a common line of thinking in the paleo lifestyle crowd: milk is for babies. Paleo folks didn’t drink the milk of other animals. Other adult mammals don’t drink milk. So, don’t drink it. Richard Nikoley, fellow mortal enemy of religion in all forms, points out that if you have the right genetics, milk is a a nearly perfect food. Continue the thought with this idea: the ability to drink milk was an spectacular mutation that spread in ancient Europe with unprecedented speed. Oh, also, yogurt gives you big balls.

Why Milk?

Throughout evolutionary history, most adult homo sapiens could not drink milk. Even today, most adults cannot drink milk. Adults who cannot drink milk don’t seem to lose very much, particularly as they can still eat yogurt and cheese. And yet the gene that allowed some adults to drink milk spread incredibly rapidly suggesting massive advantages to milk drinkers. Why? No one knows for sure but it seems to coincide with civilization. Slate has more.

My bet is they rule in favor of whoever has the most money already. That is, they will rule that copyright holders can limit what you do with a book printed in another country. Also, it won’t matter in the least because printed books are rapidly losing significance.

Supreme Court to hear arguments in case of student who resold books – CNN.com

Oral arguments are set for Monday in closely watched Supreme Court copyright case of a student who resold books to help pay for college.

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