It's like my head

“On a final note, it is important that we do not fall into the trap of oversimplifying what these differences mean in everyday life. They do not imply that women are superior to men or vice versa. They should not open the door to claims that any small sample of women, particularly a homogeneous sample such as “women managers”, are expected to differ from a similar sample of men. Although differences in nonverbal communication are greater and more reliable than, say, differences in math ability, there is no reason at this time to think that they are of any practical significance.  

But practical significance is an issue in and of itself.

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I remember visiting Rome and coming across a local legend of a lady who was feeding the population of feral cats around the Coliseum with pasta and tuna – and the scrawniest, saddest looking cats were everywhere around the structure.  In the Junction section of the west end of Toronto, there is a large feral cat population that runs alongside the rail corridor.  Peter Marra, a wildlife professional and author of this article in the Washington Post estimates that there are any where from 80 to 120 million free-roaming cats in the US alone and that cats constitute the largest number of predators on the planet.  The Toronto Humane Society estimates that between 20 000 and 100 000 cats live on the streets of Toronto. They have been introduced into most parts of the world, usually dumped by owners who are too lazy to find them a home, let alone get them neutered, or allowed to run free outside of their home and never to return.  Trapping and euthanasia is the standard practice to deal with feral populations, but TNR is being adopted in many jurisdictions. TNR is supposed to have originated in Denmark and is now practiced in most US states at various levels, both by private individuals and by local SPCA’s.

TNR is a process of trapping cats from feral populations, testing and vaccinating for various diseases, based on the jurisdiction, neutering, and then returning them to the location where they were captured. It is offered as an alternative to euthanasia and it is the goal of various organizations like Alley Cat Allies and Stray Cat Alliance to achieve a “no-kill” state for humane societies and SPC’s all over the US.  The scientific claims made by TNR proponents include:

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“Human skin cells can be converted directly into functional neurons in a period of four to five weeks with the addition of just four proteins, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The finding is significant because it bypasses the need to first create induced pluripotent stem cells, and may make it much easier to generate patient- or disease-specific neurons for study in a laboratory dish.”