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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Jul 2016

    "How does your DNA know that you're married?" – 7 yo, homing in on something I've omitted to mention

    1:43 AM - 9 Jul 2016
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      2. John Cormier‏ @PhotonicPunk 9 Jul 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        you have at most a week or two to stay on top of this, based on recent experience with our own 7 yo

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Jul 2016
        Replying to @PhotonicPunk

        Yeah, I sense that. I only barely got out of it last night, using the bedtime argument.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. John Cormier‏ @PhotonicPunk 9 Jul 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        when ours got curious she discovered Minecraft chars doing it on YouTube. Took us few weeks to back her out of that bad experience

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Jul 2016
        Replying to @PhotonicPunk

        Ugh, that made my stomach clench. Are there settings you can use to prevent that?

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      6. Atul Butte‏Verified account @atulbutte 9 Jul 2016
        Replying to @paulg @PhotonicPunk

        We use the @MeetCircle by Disney... probably better than nothing...

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      1. Ashish Singh‏ @ashishsinghxyz 9 Jul 2016
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        that's a brilliant question.. 💭 medically speaking. Such questions lead to breakthroughs in understanding human body & cure diseases!

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      2. Tim Peterson‏ @timrpeterson 9 Jul 2016
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        "so your DNA doesn't but these little things called histones get modified..." #epigenetics

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      3. Teddy‏ @RealUrso 10 Jul 2016
        Replying to @timrpeterson @paulg

        Using the epigenetics card will buy you some time... For some people, it is a life time!

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      1. Evin Callahan‏ @gaieges 9 Jul 2016
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        smart kid!

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      1. Bright Fulton‏ @brightfulton 9 Jul 2016
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        Well, when haploid cells love each other very much, they encode for proteins that make you say "Let's get married!"

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      1. Britt Kim‏ @okayplanet 9 Jul 2016
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        ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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      1. John Keiller‏ @john_k31 9 Jul 2016
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        I wonder if your DNA will become a persons route to creating self-value i.e. Immune to X disease = sell for research or treatment?

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      1. Sam Redfern‏ @psychicsoftware 9 Jul 2016
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        @michaelgmadden what was your answer?

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      1. Omkar Nisal‏ @omkar 9 Jul 2016
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        he he he he

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      1. Zane Grant‏ @zane_grant 9 Jul 2016
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        haha funny.

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