Friday, March 31, 2006

We are on the internet!

If you are reading this i think by now you know that you and i are on the internet. When i said we i ment the band Midwife Crisis of which I am a memeber.
There is footage of Midwife Crisis at site called youtube.
Now you can see all the shock and awe. You can see the first two songs of our last show. Thank you to Julie form work for recording it on her digital camera.

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

The Science Of Sexual Orientation

Sexual orientation, way do you like boys? Why do you like girls? Science has some really interesting things to say about this topic. I have been listening to Pod casts as I walk to and from work. The majority of it is political talk shows. I heard this really cool segment on sexual orientation. The report was done by Lesley Stahl of 60 minutes. The story starts with two twin boys. One is into guns and camo, the other is into horses and nail polish. You can see a short video here.
Another interesting part is what science is finding with statistics.
scientists are looking for patterns in statistics. And hard as this is to believe, they have found something they call "the older brother effect."

"The more older brothers a man has, the greater that man's chance of being gay," says Bailey.

Asked if that's true, Bailey says, "That is absolutely true."

If this comes as a shock to you, you’re not alone. But it turns out; it’s one of the most solid findings in this field, demonstrated in study after study.

And the numbers are significant: for every older brother a man has his chances of being gay increase by one third. Older sisters make no difference, and there's no corresponding effect for lesbians. A first-born son has about a 2 percent chance of being gay, and the numbers rise from there. The theory is it happens in the womb.

"Somehow, the mother's body is remembering how many boys she's carried before," says Breedlove. "The favorite hypothesis is that the mother may be making antibodies when she sees a boy the first time, and then affect subsequent boys when she carries them in utero."

"You mean, like she's carrying a foreign substance?" Stahl asked.

"And if you think about it, a woman who's carrying a son for the first time, she is carrying a foreign substance," Breedlove replied. "There are some proteins encoded on his Y chromosome that her body has never seen before and that her immune system would be expected to regard as 'invaders,'" he added.

It’s still not a proven theory.


But if the boy is left handed then the theory is out the window.

We will always wonder why we are the way we are. It is the combination of things that make us the way we are. I don't think they will find "the one thing" that makes us straight or gay. Man will always try to answer the whys. What a species!

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

This might be fun


I saw this on myspace. My friend Mary LeSuer posted this idea and I thought it would be fun for toughs of you who don't know Mary and are not connected to her on myspace. In this picture there are 75 bands represented. I would like people to post their guess. I would ask you to keep your guesses under five. Just so's we can spread around the fun. I was able to see 23.

Saturday, March 18, 2006

I was sick today

It was a good day to be sick. I have college basketball going most of the day. The USA network shows SVU for like six hours. What can I say; TV is what I do when I am sick. To be honest the TV hasn’t really given me much. It is mainly a time killer. Today was rare. Fox was playing the movie "The Straight Story". I haven't seen this movie for years. It is such a quiet little movie. I think for that reason I forgot it. The movie stood out so much compaired to the loud flashings of sports, pedophiles, MTV people dating other peoples mothers, and on the minute news updates. On TV I caught a glimpse of humanity in its purest state. I saw a real story. The story wasn't meant or made for TV. The story is beautiful in its simplicity. It is about two brothers that haven't spoken for ten years. They are both old. The main character, Richard Farnsworth,(you know Mathew from Anne of Green Gables) wants to make amends with his brother.
Cyber space, hear me! Rent this movie. Go home watch it by yourself. Or watch it with someone that gets it. I think you know what I mean. This movie is what America is. You will see what is so great about our culture. The story is not news. It is not outrageous. But I think you will find its value much more.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Our word of wisdom

I just heard a really cool radio show about americas history relating to food and spirituality. They talk about the inventer of the gram cracker. the culteral effect of the word of wisdom on mormonism. i think it is fasinating for all religions and races. "I say come one come all. yeah, so, there is your racist."

go to this link

Sunday, March 05, 2006

They just don't make them like they used to

I ran acorss this artical about higher learning now compaired to ten years ago. I think it is human nature to pine for the old days. The auther gives us his recomendations to suppliment our collage education. Here is the first part of it.

I've got great news! You're young and you're smart and next year you're beginning college. Unfortunately, I've also got bad news. The only school you got into is Harvard, where, as Peter Beinart of The New Republic notes, students often graduate "without the kind of core knowledge that you'd expect from a good high school student," and required courses can be "a hodgepodge of arbitrary, esoteric classes that cohere into nothing at all."

But don't despair. I've consulted with a bevy of sages, and I've come up with a list. If you do everything on this list, you'll get a great education, no matter what college you attend:

Read Reinhold Niebuhr. Religion is a crucial driving force of this century, and Niebuhr is the wisest guide. As Alan Wolfe of Boston College notes, if everyone read Niebuhr, "The devout would learn that public piety corrupts private faith and that faith must play a prophetic role in society. The atheists would learn that some people who believe in God are really, really smart. All of them would learn that good and evil really do exist — and that it is never as easy as it seems to know which is which. And none of them, so long as they absorbed what they were reading, could believe that the best way to divide opinion is between liberals on the one hand and conservatives on the other." http://paulipema.blogspot.com/2006/03/harvard-bound-chin-up-by-david-brooks.html