Yes, they are quite diverse. Pictures of Great Grandpa are representative of the African part of their heritage.
Hehe, I would trade my credentials but I’d hate to embarrass you in front of your friends. Let’s just say that while you were learning about action potentials in class, I was recording them using a patch clamp to obtain data for a first-author publication. So unless you’re on Pubmed: “Go hard or Go home” as you put it. But not all is lost, BlakeTyner, I’m a nice person and I’ll hold your hand through the biology lessons; it will, of course, be up to you, but I got you, I’m here for you, I love you, and we’re going to get through this together.
- Honesty
I knew that, of course: I’m puzzled as to why you think otherwise. In my post, I contrasted the lack of response between DeeDee’s testimony and Dr. Boa’s testimony as a separate point. The defense witnesses that I talked about, unless something changed, was Zimmerman’s mother and uncle.
- Honesty
Oops. I don’t need a tutorial in the sodium-potassium pump in the propagation of action potentials along the axons of neurological cells. Been there, done that.
But I’d love to read your work. And since my employer subscribes to all the databases, don’t worry about my access.
“Isn’t it also curious that not one clown here has made a comment about the defenses witnesses? Isn’t it curious how the clowns here hated on DeeDee’s “incomprehensible” testimony but said nothing of Dr. Boa’s muttering and meandering on the stand?”
It’s pretty clear that you thought Boa was a defense witness and that is why people “said nothing” of his mutterings and meandering. Of course, when your cluelessness was pointed out now you are trying to pretend that you knew that all along.
That’s apart from the fact that there were plenty of comments on the complete trainwreck of Boa’s testimony on this board that you apparently missed because of your asinine partisan blinders.
I had some thoughts about that, also.
I think it was when the two sets of Martin’s parents were being deposed the question came up of how he had gotten to Sanford and were told that one parent drove him halfway and was met by the other parent to continue on to Sanford.
But it turns out that he had ridden a bus alone to Sanford.
Wasn’t he also staying for a while in a motel instead of his mother’s house?
So he wasn’t receiving much supervision if they were trying to straighten him out.
I wondered why they hadn’t told the truth about that. Certainly he was old enough at seventeen to take that short bus trip. And I thought perhaps they may have felt like since he was getting into trouble they should have been paying closer attention to him and wanted to present it that way.
I know that’s the way I’d feel. And if that were me and I had agreed to get that kid on track he wouldn’t have gone anywhere alone for months until he could prove to me he had turned over a new leaf.
But that’s just me, a mean mom I was.
Let’s just put it this way:
Honesty, instead of holding my hand and walking me back through BIOL1401, here’s a what I’m interested in knowing:
In your opinion, were high school seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the Columbine Shooters, adults or children?
Had they lived to see prosecution, would you have wanted them charged as children or adults?
Were they, or their parents, responsible for the Columbine Massacre?
Which would be relevant if we were asking him to decide what is right or wrong. We’re not, we’re saying he was able to know what he had been told was right or wrong, legal or illegal, and choose to act on it.
Also, as I hope you’re aware, there is not suddenly a switch thrown in the brain at 25, where the person suddenly and completely becomes mature, but that it’s a process, which is why the law recognises different levels of maturity at different ages.
Defending driving whilst on drugs is not going to support your stance as a voice of reason. I’m all for cannabis being legalised, but it’s idiotic to suggest it doesn’t slow your reactions and impair your judgement, even in small doses. Same as alcohol, really, but with far less long term negative effects.
And, as I’m sure the PubMed-published Honesty simply forgot to add, the “25” figure would be middle-of-the-road anyway, since the prefrontal cortex matures earlier in females and later in males.
<shrug> That’s how you’re reading it. Think what you want to ;).
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But I’d love to read your work. And since my employer subscribes to all the databases, don’t worry about my access.
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Soo tempting…
- Honesty
I oversimplified (“good vs bad”) for our undergraduate friend, we’re talking specifically about executive function. The Wikipedia entry is remarkably accurate and would suggest giving it a read, though if this does not work, we can start slogging through papers but this is a very simple concept:
- Honesty
Oops.
I didn’t stop after undergrad.
Still waiting to read your work rather than the kind folks at Wikipedia.
(I’ll at least back up the claim I made: My membership card)
Hell, you can PM me the title(s) of your work. Scout’s honor, I won’t tell anyone here your name.
At this point, I’m legitimately interested in reading it. Give me some credit here–I teach the English language at the post-secondary level; I think I can parse the jargon.
Nerd fight!!
LOL!
I’m not published in the field of psychology, but you could call neurological psychology a hobby of mine, and I do have a formal background in it (classroom and lab) at both the undergrad and graduate level. At least enough to have made the honor society, anyway.
And, as I attested earlier in the discussion, I’ve also lived a life outside the classroom.
'course, all I get from Honesty is :rolleyes:
To paraphrase Rodney King: Can’t we all just get along!?
Honesty - it is not in doubt that 17 year olds know not to punch people in the face except in self defence, and know there may well be consequences for doing so. That they do so anyway is why we require laws and punishments, and don’t rely on immature brains to make the right decisions.
I have no desire to slog through a load of reading that simply says that teenagers are more impulsive than adults in general, because that also is not in doubt, and is not relevant to this case.
Dr. Boa was a prosecution witness… No matter how much it might have seemed like he was a defense witness.
Isn’t it obvious? If they’ve said anything remotely considered false…they MURDERED someone! What else are they hiding, the bloodthirsty poltroons? Somebody needs to get to the bottom of this.
Those pesky prosecution witnesses and their propensity for lying under oath!
But if we scream ZIMMERMAN’S A LYING LIAR! loud enough…
I agree with you about the mom. Generally, mothers will say anything for their sons. I would discount anything said by Martin’s mom or Z’s mom if I were a juror. I know what you mean. The attorney asked something to the effect of “Did you determine who’s voice was yelling ‘Help me’”? She answers “Because he is my son.” Whoops..hold on there. A little over-prepared so she skipped a question. 
But, as for the uncle? Wow, you and I must have watched different testimony. I thought he was a great witness. His testimony was: I am a deputy sheriff. I take my oath seriously and would never violate it for anyone, even my own son, but I sit here and say to you that it was George on the tape.
He looked the jury straight in the eye and was firm and unshaken. He may very well be lying through his teeth, but I thought he was awesome and very believable.