Words, and voice, too, I think. Saw a movie, March of the Penguins, the other day with my boyfriend. Before he leaves for provisions, the emperor penguin dad sings to his own kid, and the kid sings back. When dad returns, they find each other through their song. Amazing, DonDi.
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*winks*
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http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/genetics/Fall05/Handouts/PLoSbio-CobwebOfLife-Comment-10-05.pdf
Thanks for stopping by. I see your strategy is Bible study. Remember this one? "Do not worry ..."
]]>Man, so true! I'm an elementary school teacher, and I get real proprietary about my free time, when I don't have to be the "adult in charge."
Translation: Just because I have some time, doesn't mean I have the energy to volunteer for more bratties or happy clappies.
Guess I'm a still kid at heart, I usually sleep like a baby. btw, did you know that fruit flies have sleep issues? Something about cicadian rhythm genes.
Thanks for stopping by, lkyyma, I used to blog here a lot more, but still stop by when I can.
]]>For example, one study demonstrated that the co-expression patterns of genes for humans and chimpanzees differ considerably in the cerebral cortex, but are largely similar in sub-cortical regions.
Another study indicates that human and chimp genomes vary in micro-RNA (molecules that regulate gene expression) content.
The way genes are regulated and expressed corresponds to profound dissimilarities in human and chimpanzee brain structures and cognitive abilities (behavior), serving to explain the crucial differences between humans and the great apes.
Michael C. Oldham, Steve Horvath, and Daniel H. Geschwind, “Conservation and Evolution of Gene Coexpression Networks in Human and Chimpanzee Brains,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103 (2006): 17973-78.
Eugene Berezikov et al., “Diversity of Micro-RNAs in Human and Chimpanzee Brain,” Nature Genetics 38 (2006): 1375-77.
]]>California pink slipped tens of thousands of my colleagues this year, due to deficits. Every spring, we go through March madness. They threaten us, like prodded cattle, rehiring most when the "budget" gets passed later in the summer, requiring a supermajority to pass one. Isn't education of children a predictable item? Why is this an annual crisis?
It's an old co-dependency, an increasingly toxic relationship, but we put up with it for the privilege of working with kids. I, like most of my colleagues, have purchased pencils and notebooks and literally thousands of dollars worth of educational supplies for my students over the course of my career, so that our classes may function and become successful, to say nothing of unpaid overtime, after hours, nights and weekends.
I have a bumper sticker push-pinned to the bulletin board above my desk in the classroom. It reads simply: If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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