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Prometheon

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  1. So are MSPaint files. So sad ;)
  2. Don Henley - Boys of Summer
  3. Matthew Good - Under the Influence extended live version This fuckin rocks. 'When my baby's with me, I don't want for nothing but I wore this one when I walked alone..'
  4. Yeah that's really cool. I say go for it
  5. Yeah, I still despise Weapon and In a World Called Catastrophe. Don't really know why, I just cannot listen to them.
  6. Only if by 'back' you mean 'clitoris.' Should I jam with some really bad musicians on Friday?
  7. Cuz you've been spending too much time on it ;);) If you could choose between these two super powers, which would you pick? 1) Being able to transform any part of your body into plumbing equipment or 2) Being able to control cheese with the power of your mind.
  8. No way. She had the hot-ass secretary look for a bit, and when she was getting stoned with the dude and jumping around in her undies....oh man.
  9. 15 Hours > Left of Normal >>>>>>>> Broken
  10. My mom must have heard something by him on the radio and downloaded a few songs, because my first exposure was a bunch of years ago to Heather's Like Sunday, Born to Kill and Truffle Pigs. I loved all of them and went on a downloading spree, loved everything I found and went on a CD buying spree. I remember Push, A Better Pain, and Casual Walks were my theme songs for that entire summer.
  11. Yeah, Sheryl Crow bites the big one. That Soak Up The SUn song made me homicidal.
  12. Note: I didn't see the movie. Just thought I'd mention it, as she was so goddamn hot in Eternal Sunshine
  13. Pulp Fiction is fucking amazing. 'You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in England?'
  14. Well this point was rebutting what he said about Wayne being able to pcik up a stick at 30. Well aren't you kinda assuming that they do in the very question? If the attitudes you're talking about are 'colonial', wouldn't all colonials need to possess them by definition? It's a sticky question to get into
  15. Wow, I'm surprised to hear that, as I alwasy lvoed that tune. It is very popular, but that's cuz it's awesome. I think it's underappreciated even though it's insanely popular. People like it for the tune and the somewhat catchy chorus, but don't really 'get' some of the cooler little facets of it. The whole notion of 'choosing my confessions' is very, very nice.
  16. Not me. The food or the show?
  17. Same with Losing My Religion
  18. For me it was definately While We Were Hunting Rabbits. It was an auto-skip for me allll the time, and it's only been a month or so since I started really diggin it.
  19. Interpol - A Time to Feel so Small
  20. Magic Goats of Presto Island is a book reading from ALTINLTS I believe. As for the other one, no idea.
  21. I know that Goo Goo Dolls have a song called 'It's Over.' Pretty good tune actually.
  22. I think I'll just take this opportunity to say that Kirsten Dunst is the closet thing to a celebrity crush I've ever had.
  23. Yeah, I have that version. Pretty spiffy.
  24. OK. Well there is a fair amount of evidence to suggest that people of Afrcian descent possess more fast-twitch muscle fibres than those of European descent. Which would make them naturally better at track events like sprinting (100m, 200m) but worse at endurance things, like the 1500. Actually, no. Not even close. At all. We know scientifically that sensory and motor development, as well as cognitive has several 'critical periods'. These are periods where, if no sensory experiance is encountered, it will never develop. An example is with newborn kittens. If their eyes are sewn shut during a certain period of thier life (I think it was 2-6 weeks, though I can't remember) they will NEVER be able to see. After 6 weeks, you can sew their eyes shut for as long as you want, but they will be able to see afterwards. 2-6 weeks is the 'critical period' for visuosensory development. People also have these critical periods, and it applies to cognition as well as sensory reception. Therefore, if Wayne never picked up a stick before 30, a VERY compelling argument could be made that he had passed his critical period for the motor skills required for hockey. Also, new neural networks are more difficult to form in older age, and when formed, would take longer to be sheathed in myelin and thus work at satisfactory reaction speeds. Myelin is like a lubricant for axons, which are basically little wires that carry neural signals. This is all very simplified, but it gets the basic idea accross. Let me give you another example. There are people, like William Faulkner, who never graduated highschool and are better writers than you and I could ever be. Obviously practice and education will help you improve; that's the point. But natural ability does exist. Faulkner would not have had to work nearly as hard to become better than you are. It's as simple as that. Additional proof can be found through twin studies of twins (both fraternal and identical) who are seperated at birth. If identical twins have more similarities than fraternal ones, it is obviously because of their closer gentic similarity. This is the case in such studies. Identical twins are much closer in IQ range etc. The heritability of IQ is between 50 and 70 percent. If you're still not convinced I've got pages more. One of the benefits of taking psychology. You study quite a bit of heritability and genetic/social correlation/interaction. EDIT: Holy shit, I just realised how long this was. Sorry for the friggin essay.
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