procrastinating? little old me?

[dragonladyflame]

Random Things I Write Down In My Little Black Notebook While At Some Museum And Stick In My Purse to be Found Later, #7412.30.05

Comments

[arisrabkin]

I don't think I commented on the sovereignty thing at the time, so I'll remedy that here.

I think sovereignty is a good thing, and to the extent that it's been eroding in many (not all) parts of the world, that's going to be problematic. Sovereignty was invented to clarify who was in charge, and the middle ages were violent and chaotic in large part because there wasn't any such clarity.

Also, I'm skeptical of the author's explanation for the breakdown in orderly government throughout the world. I don't think either global capitalism or technology is the problem: there are many high-tech places without any such erosion, and many of the most chaotic places have been bypassed by global capitalism.

[dragonladyflame]

I couldn't read the whole article because I don't have the required subscription ... but I'm not sure I actually know where I come down in the debate. My instincts are to say that I don't know enough to have an opinion. It's an interesting thing to think about nonetheless, though.

Do you always write this well?

[worldnamer]

...nothing I created of him could be worse or less accurate than the things I have dreamed my actual lovers to be.

Staggering, beautiful.

Do I?

[dragonladyflame]

You'd know better than I -- you're one of my best readers. :smile: I feel like you and I are on the exact same wavelength in some very fundamental ways.

And thank you.

[epinicion]

Now that was truly beautiful. Sometime I'm going to have to write down the thoughts that went through my head when first I saw you on the L.

[dragonladyflame]

Heh. Flatterer.

[epinicion]

Prove me wrong. ; )

[basseykay]

I haven't checked the sources, but I suspect that the DNA story is a mistake. The title and the caption to the photo mention DNA but the text of the story only says that certain genes are activated. The text does not mention DNA. My guess is that the DNA is the same either way, but some other change outside of the DNA determines which sequences of DNA are read.

[bloodofchrist]

i so wanted to be the first to point that out ...
but yea, turning on or off genes doesn't change the DNA at all; it just affects which genes are translated into proteins.

if i don't get distracted, i think we might get endocrinology at work. i'll try to find the original article.

[dragonladyflame]

Well, that's what I figured. But I guess it's not quite scientifically correct to say that changing DNA's expression is "changing DNA".

[milliganhasears]

Lovely. Now I'm going to have Magic Dance running in my head all day. Which isn't to say that I don't think a goblin masquerade would rock, but muppet wire-fu is catchier.

[dragonladyflame]

:grin: Would you attend a Fiery-themed ball?

[milliganhasears]

Now that could be interesting. I predict friskier dancing, and an anomalously large chance of getting kicked in the head.

Yes!