Re: [silk] Parenting rewires dads as well

2010-08-20 Thread .
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:33, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: In fact doing nothing at all should also rewire your brain. But science demands deeper hairsplitting. Years ago, when asked to attend a vipassana camp a friend refused saying he cant sit 'doing nothing'[0][1][2][3][4]. Much later I

Re: [silk] Parenting rewires dads as well

2010-08-20 Thread .
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:21, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: In which case, let me add the raising of a puppy or a kitten to my list. s/or/and /me adds a parrot to the list. These three would make life more lively. -- .

Re: [silk] Parenting rewires dads as well

2010-08-20 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:21, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: In which case, let me add the raising of a puppy or a kitten to my list. s/or/and /me adds a parrot to the list. These three would make life more lively. Lively Hmmm.

Re: [silk] Parenting rewires dads as well

2010-08-20 Thread Sean Doyle
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:07 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 18 Aug 2010 1:45:26 pm Deepa Mohan wrote: I have a question...why does this rewiring not work (it obviously doesn't) when the father does not accept responsibility for the child? Does the re-wiring only occur if

Re: [silk] Parenting rewires dads as well

2010-08-20 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Sean Doyle sdo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure about the role of hormones here. My daughter was one year old when she was adopted and was very fearful of my appearance (she's from China; I may have been the first caucasian bearded male she ever met). She

[silk] Wikimath?

2010-08-20 Thread Pranesh Prakash
Could someone who follows this more closely explain how big a leap wikimath is from having these discussions on Usenet and mailing lists? So far as blogs go, I can see no difference at all -- the most complex commenting systems approach the thread-ability of e-mail. - Pranesh -

Re: [silk] Parenting rewires dads as well

2010-08-20 Thread Thaths
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote: /me adds a parrot to the list. These three would make life more lively. Lively Hmmm. Hopefully the Parrot is not pining for the fjords. My hovercraft is full of

Re: [silk] Wikimath?

2010-08-20 Thread Giancarlo Livraghi
Pranesh Prakash wrote: Could someone who follows this more closely explain how big a leap wikimath is from having these discussions on Usenet and mailing lists? As far as I can see, none at all. And facebook is definitely worse. It isn't even a good bbs. Cheers, Giancarlo

Re: [silk] Wikimath?

2010-08-20 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 8/20/2010 7:36 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote: Could someone who follows this more closely explain how big a leap wikimath is from having these discussions on Usenet and mailing lists? So far as blogs go, I can see no difference at all -- the most complex commenting systems approach the

Re: [silk] Wikimath?

2010-08-20 Thread Pranesh Prakash
On Friday 20 August 2010 08:35 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: There are some important differences from email - wikis are multi-user by design, are available in a common location, and are editable by anyone with the appropriate permissions. True, but most of the work happened on blogs, and I can't

Re: [silk] Parenting rewires dads as well

2010-08-20 Thread ss
On Friday 20 Aug 2010 3:58:23 pm Sean Doyle wrote: I'm not sure about the role of hormones here. My daughter was one year old when she was adopted and was very fearful of my appearance (she's from China; I may have been the first caucasian bearded male she ever met). She would only look at me