Check out the Dinosaur Plant. It was one of the biological anomalies that I heard of over the weekend. I also heard of a biological organism that gets smaller as it gets older, but I don't have a name. Do you know what that could be in reference to?

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Can an obese person die from starvation? I've never been interested in (non-neuro) biology so I've not looked at anything about this. Could an obese person just starve themselves down to their goal weight or what? What would happen to an obese person that only consumed water and daily vitamins ( Read more... )

Yesterday, my roommate came into my room to see if I wanted to watch the State of the Union with them, to which I replied, "Hell No." Personally, I consider myself to be politically engaged and informed--but this mockery of a president has turned my apathy to the administration to bitter denial of its substantiality. My roommates are also political ( Read more... )

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What do you think the LEAST intelligent LJ community is? There's that club of furries, the camwhores, liberals, conservatives, the ljsecret peeps, anarchists, etc ( Read more... )

While some of my more pessimistic friends out there may believe there is nothing we can do to combat the HIV/AIDS problem I do not concur. There are numerous ways that you-yes you, the very person who is reading this right now- can fight this battle. It all just depends on how much time and effort you're willing to put in.

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You are not your ideas.

Criticism often feels like a personal attack. As a result, most people become defensive when criticized and will stubbornly defend their idea even if the criticism has merit ( Read more... )

Has anyone ever read "Propaganda Techniques" by J.A.C. Brown, from 1964? I'm struggling to find it. I don't need to read the entire thing, but I need the gist of it. I understand the techniques but I'm working on a paper regarding demogoguery, so I need to highlight some key points...

if only I could find it!