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LTbear

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  1. Tripod, the old coyote that broke a leg two years ago. Still kicking ass.
  2. 🤣🤣 In all seriousness when I was at Cal I'd bet that 99% of my peers couldn't have named all of the other members of the PAC, and maybe half couldn't name the conference itself.
  3. Someone did earlier in this thread, yes
  4. No, but you should be embarrassed by said did-nothing-of-consequence with their lives fans puffing out their chest, calling the UT athletics programs "daddy" and bragging as though they individually actually have any tangible effect on UT athletics. It's so deeply aggy-esque. In case you mention it: yes, every sports programs has similar fans. And they're worth mocking every time.
  5. 1) Ya, This thread has really opened my eyes to how many Texas fans apparently put a lot of their self worth into how the UT football program (that they have zero to do with) is performing (but not actually performing on the field, just how much money they make). Sure sign that said individuals have nothing in their personal lives to really hang their self esteem on. Glad you got what you should out of UT - a fantastic education/ research dollars/ publications. It's a place that can absolutely open tremendous doors, but also one where you can skate by and do more or less nothing with it (like most big universities). 2) I did my PhD at Berkeley and am torn on this. I can attest to the fact that for the most part, no one gives a damn about any football game except for Cal vs Stanford, with a little secondary care about the USC game, and it's true on both campuses (I was at Stanford for a year on fellowship and went to every home game). On the other hand, when the team is doing well (those rare, elusive times), some pretty big crowds do appear. But the campus admin just isn't there to support big-time football (at both, but at Cal especially).
  6. PAC is becoming the living embodiment of that "this is fine" meme.
  7. Really would have enjoyed seeing OU go to Manhattan one more time
  8. How about you not be a pussy
  9. I may have missed it, but I haven't seen that, just a bunch of people whining about refs, as is the case within every fanbase in the country. Following that link that showed Texas accumulated, I think it was, 3 more penalties than their opponents over the course of the year... I'd be willing to bet that isn't statistically significant.
  10. You can actually still hear a few muffled cries after it's completely swallowed (!!!!)
  11. I appreciate ya
  12. One of my photos is a finalist in a competition. If y'all ever get the chance, I'd appreciate your vote: https://refocus-awards.com/people-vote-award/impact
  13. Some people need a swift little jab to the old voicebox
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    Eyesight poll

    20-15, always has been, and still going strong
  15. And absolutely fuck all this "miss Cowboys vs Eagles to go to church" horseshit
  16. I'm in year 9 and would absolutely bail if she started that bullshit now
  17. Some of y'all deal with marriages that I'd end after two weeks.
  18. I know what's coming every time and it never gets old
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    Yep, most people of European descent have something like 1-3% neanderthal DNA. Denisovans do have a sparse record, but truth is that's true for the vast majority of vertebrates we know from the fossil record. Odds are there are several extinct human species we'll never even know about.
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    Internet myths. While I was at Baylor a science professor was fired for suggesting creationism be considered as a science.
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    Another thing to think about: why be smart? We have a biased viewpoint in which you'd think well of course evolution would favor big brains, but that isn't so. Selection only favors what can survive and reproduce, and critters can be incredibly well-adapted for a particular niche without being super brainy. Crocodiles, cockroaches, a million other species are doing great with limited brain power. Moreover, any adaptation is a compromise in some way. Big brains give us a more complex social structure and behavior, but our brains came with disadvantages back in the day. That few pounds of jello in our heads eat up about 25% of our daily calories - that's a huge disadvantage when you're a primate evolving on the savannah with little assurance of when your next meal will come. That calorie need may be one reason (among a few others) that we are relatively weak compared to the other apes - we traded the calories needed to sustain larger musculature for the calories needed for bigger brains. And of course those huge brains, combined with our evolution towards bipedalism, combine to make our childbirth one of the most risky of all mammals; another compromise.
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    Good question, but the simple answer is that by chance, some genera (our genus is Homo) happen to have only one living species, and that's true for us. At other periods in Earth history, there were multiple species of humans living on the planet at the same time. As recently as 30,000 years ago (which is an absolutely tiny amount of time from the perspective of Earth history, there were three human species around: H. sapiens, H. denisova, and H. neanderthalensis. Why the others went extinct, we don't know, but it could have been competition (with us), chance events (like a disease that wiped out a then smallish population), climate change, or some combo thereof. As an aside - are we that smart? We existed pretty much like any other animal, despite being 100% anatomically modern, for the vast majority of our species' history (200,000ish years). I'd argue that really the one thing that separates us so much from other critters is the evolutionary advancements in our vocal apparatus (as compared to other primates) and the eventual creation of writing, which has allowed us to accumulate knowledge from generation to generation. If each new generation of human couldn't be born into the wealth of pre-recorded knowledge from all prior generations, I doubt we'd look nearly so advanced.
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    I'm a paleontologist/ evolutionary biologist. I'm totally in for all of it.
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