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...even encouraging. I imagine many existing and prospective parents may be remorsefully contemplating their lifestyles before they faced the sobering business of parenthood. I know I would. And I wouldn't consider having children based on my past lifestyles and your article. All the same, society and science sometimes seem to fall into dangerous cycles. Epigenetics smacks disturbingly of the horrific days in Soviet Russia when the mad geneticist Lysenko held sway over Russian science. I also have questions regarding sample size, causality and method. In my opinion, a closed population in northern Sweden does not constitute a control group...
...work of Dr. Lars Olov Bygren in epigenetics referenced in your article would seem to nullify one of the icons of Darwinian evolution, Darwin's finches. Darwin noted that the bill length of finches changed depending on environmental conditions. Darwin explained this by natural selection. Other scientists have noticed that the bill lengths of those finches return to normal when conditions return to normal. Sounds like epigenetics and not Darwinian evolution. Darwin skeptics tend to agree that organisms can adapt (or evolve) within certain boundaries, but such organisms do not evolve into new species. Bygren's study of epigenetics would...
...Populism and elitism seem different, but they're really mirror images of one another. They both assume a country fundamentally divided. They both describe politics as a class struggle ... These days populism is in vogue ... If [populists] continue their random attacks on enterprise and capital, they will only increase the pervasive feeling of uncertainty, which is now the single biggest factor in holding back investment, job creation and growth...
Aside from Mel's Jewish problem, he has the sizable challenge of rekindling his star wattage after being absent from leading roles since Signs in 2002. Edge of Darkness might seem just the vehicle for that mission. Based on an acclaimed BBC miniseries from 1985, with the same director at the helm (Martin Campbell, who with Casino Royale rebooted the James Bond franchise) and with William Monahan, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Departed, working on the script, it focuses on a familiar Gibson character: the haunted hero who solves problems by killing people. (See the top 10 James Bond...
Comcast doesn't seem to need a rebranding. Fueled by higher Internet and phone revenue and a onetime tax gain, company earnings more than doubled, to $955 million, in the fourth quarter. "Here's one thing we do know," says Tim Calkins, a marketing professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. "Comcast is going to spend a huge amount of money to get that brand to mean what it wants it to mean." Here's another thing we know. Shareholders should be asking...