Cancer.
When you are done shuddering, let’s consider the changes in the therapeutic choices. Up until recently, it was radiation and/or chemotherapy.
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So, years ago Drs. Settle, Dawes, Christakis, and Fowler reported (The Journal of Politics) that there is a gene associated with liberal thought. It seems that folks with liberal dispositions also seek out new and novel experiences. Those same folks have the 7R variant of the dopamine receptor (G4). This research came after Bouchard & McGue, Cloninger, Svrakic, & Przybeck, among others determined that social conservatism is also inherited.
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December 24, 1983. A day I won’t readily forget. Even though I didn’t know that event until a few days later. One of my employees did not show up for work. A reliable fellow, Mohammed Saadoui, a fellow chemical engineer.
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I’ve written about my pain threshold before. Where I’ve obtained (now, there’s a verb choice) 3rd degree burns all over my arm and kept on working. Or, broken my leg and kept on going. Well, it turns out that we can train our genes to provide this benefit.
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