Potent Biology: Stem Cells, Cloning and Regeneration

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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Jeanie wrote:
    hehe! :D When I FINALLY get broadband I'm gonna be a menace to society!! :D

    I reckon they'll never tear me away from the computer! Which pretty scary considering I've been up all night on the damn thing again anyway! :eek:

    I guess being able to watch these lectures is pretty important to me.

    Of course being mentally challenged as I am I'll probably need to watch the damn things over and over and I'll still feel like I'm sitting at the airport! ;)

    But stem cells fascinate me, so maybe, just maybe I might actually be able to absorb some of it. Although right now as I keep nodding off at the keyboard that seems like a ridiculous notion! :D

    Caffeine helps me to stay alert during the lectures. I usually end up watching them 2 or 3 times just to soak it all in. Then I do the labs and check out more info on them as well. Then I forget 99% of it.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Ahnimus wrote:
    You know Jeanie. You are the only person here that would actually watch it, and you can't. Lame. The rest of the goons take broadband for granted. lol.
    You know that I watch stuff like this ... I've sent you links to stuff like this!

    Alas, it's Friday and I'm preparing to get my drunk on and goof off in the gabbly, so maybe I'll watch tomorrow while I recuperate :)
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    hippiemom wrote:
    You know that I watch stuff like this ... I've sent you links to stuff like this!

    Alas, it's Friday and I'm preparing to get my drunk on and goof off in the gabbly, so maybe I'll watch tomorrow while I recuperate :)

    Yes you have, you sent me the MIT OCW link, thank you once again. I've been slacking on that too. :(
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Caffeine helps me to stay alert during the lectures. I usually end up watching them 2 or 3 times just to soak it all in. Then I do the labs and check out more info on them as well. Then I forget 99% of it.

    Ah caffeine! The bain of my life!! Can't drink it after mid morning or it keeps me awake ALL night! And makes me hypo to boot! :eek:

    My recall is not too bad once the info has gone in, it's the getting it in that's the problem. I have to go over and over stuff. If I'm reading its the same sentence 4 or 5 times. It's bloody annoying sometimes.

    Like my brain has a natural aversion to anything new that requires thought and laying down of memory! :D
    Bloody useless thing!! No wonder I'm interested in the stem cells!! ;)
    NOPE!!!

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  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    Ahnimus wrote:
    That's true, why did so many people watch Abooks video on "Money as Debt" but no one will watch the videos I post?

    Oh right, Dan the Man watched one...
    To be fair Ahnimus, I filter information differently than you. I cannot listen to dry science at all. I can process science when it's put in a philosophical way because that works with my filters. I don't post on economics or on politics because I do not have the information because it just does not stick with me. It's definitely not personal that I don't watch your lectures. According to the way I'm wired, the dry facts of science are just not appealing to me. Any of the science stuff I read is science that has been presented in a way conducive to my more humanitarian learning style.
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Ahnimus wrote:
    That's true, why did so many people watch Abooks video on "Money as Debt" but no one will watch the videos I post?

    Oh right, Dan the Man watched one...


    Don't be hatin' Ahnimus! :p:D;)

    I had to save that thread from the second page having only one post at the time. It may depend on the time you post it and who is on at the time. Annnnd...it was a cartoon, everyone loves cartoons!
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    angelica wrote:
    To be fair Ahnimus, I filter information differently than you. I cannot listen to dry science at all. I can process science when it's put in a philosophical way because that works with my filters. I don't post on economics or on politics because I do not have the information because it just does not stick with me. It's definitely not personal that I don't watch your lectures. According to the way I'm wired, the dry facts of science are just not appealing to me. Any of the science stuff I read is science that has been presented in a way conducive to my more humanitarian learning style.

    You know that's really clever how you understand your mind that well angelica. And know how you learn best. :)

    Maybe mine's just overtired today. :o
    NOPE!!!

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  • tooferz
    tooferz Posts: 135
    Ahnimus wrote:
    You know Jeanie. You are the only person here that would actually watch it, and you can't. Lame. The rest of the goons take broadband for granted. lol.

    i TRY to watch but a) i have the attention span of a gnat. i can barely watch an entertaining movie. or b) i'll watch under the influence of meds and totally not remember.

    i really am trying to watch these...it may take a few days tho.

    if it makes you feel better, i couldn't sit thru abook's links either. i'm not a goon...i'm an adhd having, overly medicated freak.
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    tooferz wrote:
    i TRY to watch but a) i have the attention span of a gnat. i can barely watch an entertaining movie. or b) i'll watch under the influence of meds and totally not remember.

    i really am trying to watch these...it may take a few days tho.

    if it makes you feel better, i couldn't sit thru abook's links either. i'm not a goon...i'm an adhd having, overly medicated freak.

    hey but toof, is that a recent thing? the attention span thing? like since you've been sick?

    Because I'm sure I read somewhere about chemo affecting short term memory. And my rehab doctor told me once that people who are under medical stresses have so much going on that they can't take everything in because there's so much going on in their heads.

    Well anyway, that's one thing that I do remember!! ;)
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    tooferz wrote:
    i
    if it makes you feel better, i couldn't sit thru abook's links either. i'm not a goon...i'm an adhd having, overly medicated freak.
    I also didn't make it through abook's link...:o....although I do intend to go back and finish, because.....it's a cartoon, like she says!! and everyone loves and can manage cartoons! ;):)
    "The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth." ~ Niels Bohr

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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Jeanie wrote:
    Ah caffeine! The bain of my life!! Can't drink it after mid morning or it keeps me awake ALL night! And makes me hypo to boot! :eek:

    My recall is not too bad once the info has gone in, it's the getting it in that's the problem. I have to go over and over stuff. If I'm reading its the same sentence 4 or 5 times. It's bloody annoying sometimes.

    Like my brain has a natural aversion to anything new that requires thought and laying down of memory! :D
    Bloody useless thing!! No wonder I'm interested in the stem cells!! ;)

    My brain works the same way, I've spent 20 minutes reading sentences like "Jimmy went to the store and purchased 5 apples and 4 pears." For some reason I can't read and understand at the same time, so I have to commit the words to memory then try to figure out what it means.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    angelica wrote:
    To be fair Ahnimus, I filter information differently than you. I cannot listen to dry science at all. I can process science when it's put in a philosophical way because that works with my filters. I don't post on economics or on politics because I do not have the information because it just does not stick with me. It's definitely not personal that I don't watch your lectures. According to the way I'm wired, the dry facts of science are just not appealing to me. Any of the science stuff I read is science that has been presented in a way conducive to my more humanitarian learning style.

    That's the beauty of the lectures, they are pretty laymanized.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    Don't be hatin' Ahnimus! :p:D;)

    I had to save that thread from the second page having only one post at the time. It may depend on the time you post it and who is on at the time. Annnnd...it was a cartoon, everyone loves cartoons!

    I'm not hatin' I really enjoyed that video. Did you check out "The Money Masters"? It's not a cartoon, but it goes really in-depth into the history of banking in the United States and Britain.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    tooferz wrote:
    i TRY to watch but a) i have the attention span of a gnat. i can barely watch an entertaining movie. or b) i'll watch under the influence of meds and totally not remember.

    i really am trying to watch these...it may take a few days tho.

    if it makes you feel better, i couldn't sit thru abook's links either. i'm not a goon...i'm an adhd having, overly medicated freak.

    lol, It doesn't bother me if no one watches the vids. It only bothers me when people have extremely strong opinions on issue they don't understand. I on occasion get into discussions with minimal knowledge, but quickly concede my knowledge to those more informed then me.

    But you get into these discussion on abortion and stem cell research and people keep using terms like "fetus" to describe a 4 day old blastocyst which is basically a cell to the exponent 8. A fetus is something totally different. So, I think in order to have real dialect over these issues we need clarity of language and shared knowledge. That's really my only beef.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • tooferz
    tooferz Posts: 135
    Jeanie wrote:
    hey but toof, is that a recent thing? the attention span thing? like since you've been sick?

    Because I'm sure I read somewhere about chemo affecting short term memory. And my rehab doctor told me once that people who are under medical stresses have so much going on that they can't take everything in because there's so much going on in their heads.

    Well anyway, that's one thing that I do remember!! ;)
    i was adhd before chemo..and yes chemo brain is a real thing. the adhd makes it hard to focus...the chemo brain makes me forget what i did ingest. so basically at this point in my life, after 12 yrs on and off chemo, i'm damn lucky i remember my name and don't drool all over myself. tho if you add a few tequilas...that does happen. haha
  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    Ahnimus wrote:
    That's the beauty of the lectures, they are pretty laymanized.
    It can be completely laymanized and yet, if it's not all touchy, feely and about value and empowerment, my mind goes blank and I tune out.
    "The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth." ~ Niels Bohr

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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    angelica wrote:
    It can be completely laymanized and yet, if it's not all touchy, feely and about value and empowerment, my mind goes blank and I tune out.

    Seriously? Too much TM maybe? :p

    How did you make it through school?
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Ahnimus wrote:
    I'm not hatin' I really enjoyed that video. Did you check out "The Money Masters"? It's not a cartoon, but it goes really in-depth into the history of banking in the United States and Britain.

    I haven't watched it yet. I will get to that, though... I'm very much intrigued about the subject. Are you sure you couldn't find it in cartoon format, though? :D
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Seriously? Too much TM maybe? :p

    How did you make it through school?
    Not well--I dropped out...my kids and myself all have major attention issues, without hyperactivity.
    "The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth." ~ Niels Bohr

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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    angelica wrote:
    Not well--I dropped out...my kids and myself all have major attention issues, without hyperactivity.

    Me too :(
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire

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