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I could use a copy (and I wouldn't sell it off)!

Seconded.

That's exactly what happened to me!

I wouldn't do it. Here's my case: You obviously care about gaming quite a bit to have collected all that great stuff. When you have kids, you'll be seriously kicking yourself, if not sooner. Plus, most items won't hold their value. The ones that do hold value, you will probably miss the most...

Totally. Two clones will occupy distinct environmental niches both in and out of the uterus. Even with identical genotypes (issuing ostensibly identical sets of genetic instructions), the slightest disparities in environmental input will give rise to different responses since it is impossible...

ROTF!!!

My principal point was that any evidence must be looked at carefully, including yours and mine (which included some old and some very recent articles ... it was a bibliography for an unpublished paper I wrote ... some of the sources are quite persuasive). As long as the research methods are...

Can't you tell? My professional background is chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, and computational biology (in roughly that order). Howard Hughes labs. I'm interested in a lot of other stuff (like D&D for instance), and occasionally take classes and do things outside of benchwork and...

Nope. Those should be looked at carefully, as well! Especially the one from those wacky crackpots, Masters & Johnson. You're totally right, Shemeska. I'm not being sarcastic about this. Here is why I reacted so strongly. The thing is, forging a connection between genetics and homosexuality is...

Big undulating flag. In fact, social scientists are uniquely equipped to conduct these interview-based studies since that is precisely the kind of research in which they specialize. It is what they go to graduate school to train for, and it is part and parcel of the social scientist's career...

Not the most sciencey solution, but you're probably right about that! Shemeska: thanks for the responses ... I'll try to check out those articles this week. I had some more (possibly obnoxious) comments for you in my last post. I'll try to do some poking around the intertrons myself. G'night, all!

Exactly my concern. No doubt. What is this recent persuasive evidence? EDIT: The Mercer article appears credible enough from the abstract ... I can't download the article but the sample size is n=6399 women and they rely on interviews and "computer-assisted" interviews. British National...

Curious. Aside from simply asking someone their orientation or taking a survey, what possible metric could be employed to assay such a quality in populations? SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphism studies)? Gene migration isn't exactly helpful, since there is no such thing as a gay gene. If...

Your savings, sir, border on the ludicrous.

I believe it's a hideous, ill-tempered ogre thing spawned from a foul union with a Gorgon. It was statted up in the original Field Folio and then again in Tome of Horrors II. hahaha! j/k Diaglo is a resident grognard in these parts who likes his old-school D&D extra old-school. A salient...

Unless they're bisexual. I like to think that these multiplicities of sexuality, straight and gay, need not be rigid or binary. I prefer the fluid model (straining not to make a joke about fluid here). Absolutely straight and absolutely gay are two extremes ... there are a lot of other valid and...

Yay! Cool people are cool! I love enworld.

Right on. Then you and I are of one mind here. Got your dander up! I was just teasing you since you decided to correct me and quote THE RULES. :) Still friends? Interesting points. I like them.

Not everyone plays 3.5 either, young man. According to my 1st ed DMG on page 13, gray elves live up to 2000 years. Something I happily house-ruled into my 3.5 campaign. So there.

Some people do change over time, though. I consciously try to reinvent myself as I go along ... just like Madonna. Once a person decides he knows everything and stops growing, questioning, and challenging beliefs and assumptions, I think this leads to complacencey. These people seem more like...