Musings and What-not

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Luke Skywalker called.  He wants his Landspeeder (hovercraft) back.  {sigh}  He's such a brat!  I need to take one more spin 'round the block then, maybe , I'll give it back to him.  {sigh} Do you know what's sad? I can't even say, "I googled it" anymore when I'm asked where I find information to blog about. Why is that, you ask? Seems that folks are using it as their sole source to find data, and I ain't mentioning any names. No!  I won't say! I.  Can't.  Hear.  You.       (la la la la la la la la) I'll be serious for a moment. I'm glad more of us, on the other side of the lawn, are stating that there are other contributing factors to autism... besides vaccines. I believe that the folks blaming them for their child(ren)'s autism are actually doing us more harm than good, because now we have a whole new set of parents becoming paranoid about vaccinating their children. I don't think this is helping our cause at all. In fac...

Epigenetics? I love my readers; you are quite the knowledgeable bunch.  Just when I get comfortable with one topic, the most recent being Multiple Chemical Sensitivities , you throw me another bone. Fetch, girl, fetch!!! Not knowing what in the world 'epigenetics' was, I jumped in my hovercraft and headed back down the Information Superhighway. I took an exit that seemed to offer the best explanation, we laypeople, might understand. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it: The modern usage of the word is more narrow, referring to heritable traits (over rounds of cell division and sometimes transgenerationally) that do not involve changes to the underlying DNA sequence. Still confused?  Here's another way to look at it. The Greek prefix epi- in epigenetics implies features that are "on top of" or "in addition to" genetics; thus epigenetic traits exist on top of or in addition to the traditional molecular basis for inheritance. Still not getting ...