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A cheap, easy way to make healthier IVF children?

Sperm don't contribute mDNA to offspring An ova has a little more DNA in it than a sperm does: First of all, the Y chromosome is smaller than the X chromosome, and the Y chromosome is only carried by sperm (ova all have X chromosomes only). Second, the ova contributes

Waking up inside a new museum every day.

Waking up inside a new museum every day.

I love going to museums and looking at the artwork and commentary. I think it would be cool if I had a bunch of famous paintings hanging inside my house, and that those paintings change every night so I wake up to new artwork in the morning. I think recent

The Sun's Great Judgment

The Sun's Great Judgment

Why is it that every single lifeform on earth is so ridiculously resistant to extreme magnetic fields? We make MRI machines that create 10 TESLA magnetic fields and put people inside them! And the person doesn’t even notice! And it’s not just people, it’s like this for

Sign Language and Orthography

Sign Language and Orthography

What would it be like if humanity had developed sign language first and spoken language way later? If language was exclusively in the domain of silent hand-signals for thousands of years before we got around to inventing language-by-sound? In particular, how would this have impacted writing systems? Would people have