womb

Are they present in the womb? Or do they get transferred from all the hugs and kisses?

I can't believe that in 2013 we are still worried about which piece of land someone were when he got out of the womb.

It seems like many posters here can't comprehend why a human being would play Russian roulette knowing that they have two children and one in the womb.

Request: change the title by appending "fiction" so that folks like me don't start reading to try and figure out how the hell a person can be sued while in the womb.

The womb exists for good reason; scaffolds exist for good reason; decorum on first dates exists for good reason. Without these things early transactional costs defeat growth.

It's not dissimilar to how an ultrasound scanner is used to look at a baby in the womb. In fact, ultrasound is used in archaeology as well to do this sort of stuff, obviously on a smaller scale.

Hell, even negative feelings felt by the mother while the child is in the womb are shown to affect it. So, no, just because some people have wishful thinking dogmas that "we are exactly the same", "interchangeable" etc, it doesn't mean it's true.

Another fun analogy: a start-up requires the care of its founders in the same way a fortis requires the environment of the womb. This would make YC an IVF clinic--though with some aspects of a pre-natal care facility as well.

Once the infant is out of the womb, everything change instantly without any interference by anyone, anybody, or anything else. The child will change your brain, your mind, your heart, your lifestyle, and your future at that moment of birth.

The most interesting part of that article is the non-chalant last line: "Once the [wooly mammoth's] tissues have been treated to a nuclear transfer process, the eggs will be implanted into the womb of a live elephant for a 22-month pregnancy." Cloning wooly mammoths!

It's a brilliant satire on government bureaucracy and how members of the bureaucracy take it as being fact, and until I read this story about the woman murdering her twin in the womb, it was hilarious to me. Now it's a bit more frightening.

Everyone likes to pretend that the ability to draw is some sort of mystical power bestowed upon artists while they were still in the womb. HN in particular should understand how silly this is, because non-technical people generally think the same thing about programming and general computer skills.

There's since been evidence that on a small scale, cells pass from mother-to-child and child-to-mother in the womb, and these cells are still present in blood or brain decades later... meaning almost everyone might\n be a chimera.

Isn't it possible that some of these people toiling away in the corporate womb are acquiring capabilities and capital so they can be reborn to do important, but potentially unprofitable 'change the world' projects?

Taking this further, genetics are not the only obstacle course - there is still variation in the womb environment and early childhood. The interplay of genes and the stability of process in the growing brain; affected by a lack of stimulation, poor nutrition and a stressful womb environ would likely have more impactful effects on intelligence than pure genetics.

'woman murdering her twin in the womb'? ! What a bizarre and offensive thing to say. What the article says: In human biology, a chimera is an organism with at least two genetically distinct types of cells -- or, in other words, someone meant to be a twin. But while in the mother's womb, two fertilized eggs fuse, becoming one fetus that carries two distinct genetic codes -- two separate strands of DNA.