Childhood Stress Leaves Genetic Scars

ScienceNOW ^ | 24 April 2012 | Katherine Rowland

[hinckley buzzard]

Telomeres prevent DNA strands from unravelling, much like the plastic aglets on a shoelace

I don't know much about telomeres, but knowing what an "aglet" is will probably win me a drink in the local bar next week..

[Carriage Hill]

“aglet”

Sounds like a “personal problem”; your dermatologist might be of help... LOL.

[ladyjane]

Actually a friend of mine won a prize from a radio station because she knew what an aglet was.

[glorgau]

“Children that experienced violence”

Is it the same for giving and receiving?

[arthurus]

Telomeres (red) are shorter in children who have been abused.

Could it possibly be because abused children are not ed so much useful food as nonabused children are? Isn't lack of attention or deliberate withholding of food is part of the problem with abused children? Or is Lysenko back in vogue?

[calex59]

I don't know much about telomeres, but knowing what an "aglet" is will probably win me a drink in the local bar next week..

Yep, that's a new one on me, everyone I know has always called them eyelets. Aglet another bit of info to add to my vast store of useless trivia. I used to astound people with the knowledge that a cubic yard of stone rip rap weights 127 lbs. Knowing the weight didn't astound them as much as knowing what stone rip rap was in the first place.

[digger48]

a cubic yard of stone rip rap weights 127 lbs.

don't you mean a cubic foot?

A cubic yard of limestone riprap is around 3300 pounds or so, depending on the grade.

I've installed tens of thousands of tons of the stuff.

[calex59]

Yep, I made a typo. A cubic foot.

[digger48]

now...here’s one for you.

How many gallons will fit in a cubic foot?

It’ll shock the crap out of most folks.

[calex59]

A cubic yard of stone rip rap weights 1.4 tons according to everything I can find on it:)

[the invisib1e hand]

Used to love that stuff.

[digger48]

“Aglet” is used a lot in crossword puzzles.

[calex59]

Alright, I don’t know but if you want to win bets ask your friends to pronounce this work sounded out in syllables exactly this way. ba seb all. I guarantee you that it is a very rare person who will say baseball. They will come up with all sorts of weird sounding pronunciations but almost never say baseball.

[digger48]

that would work out about right, though. Wouldn’t it?

I never concerned myself with it much until we were doing a project where we were buying by the ton, but billing by the yard.

I had a heck of a time finding someone at the quarry who could answer that. They had to call Corporate Office to find out.

[calex59]

Darn, on post 14 work should be word.

[ptsal]

thought that was a sample of UC Berkely graduates playing tic-tac-toe

[JRandomFreeper]

8 gallons, plus or minus.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Somewhere, I've got a dead-tree book with all those specific gravity numbers in it. Dad owned a construction company, and back then it was reference books and slide-rules and pencil and paper.

/johnny

[hecticskeptic]

Just recently, there became something that you can buy in the health food stores called TA-65 which is called a telomerase activator. Horrifically expensive but it’s supposed to reverse the shortening of the telomeres and thus reverse the aging process. I know a fellow about age 70 who has been taking it for a year and of all the things closest to the fountain of youth, this would seem to be the closest. Even his hair is getting darker.