Shelley Ross, the executive producer of "Good Morning America," said she had heard too much speculation over biological weapons in conversations to ignore it on the program.
I am heartened by this progress: as a child, I had always wished for an acknowledgement that being adopted did make me absolutely different if not lesser than my parents' biological children, for better conversations and more work helping me come to terms both with my blackness and where it fit in our family.
This opinion article is clearly intended to initiate a conversation within the biological community regarding the contribution of advances in genomic science to our understanding of biological systems beyond traditional model organisms.
Several times during the conversation he produces biological metaphors - he sees life as a Darwinian struggle for pre-eminence and believes it works best that way.
The concept of race, as unscientific as it may be, is so firmly entrenched in our view of the world that if we simply state that race is irrelevant to genomics and has no biological basis, we stop the conversation.
Nonetheless, conversations about the biological clock suggested that reproduction was an exclusively female concern.
Even in 2016, conversations about the "biological clock" tend to assume that fertility is an exclusively female concern.
First, conversations about the "biological clock" pushed women towards motherhood, suggesting that even if some of the gendered double standards about sex were eroding, there would always be this difference: women had to plan their love lives with an eye to having children before it was "too late".
While that's great for the stepparent, what is a noncustodial biological parent to do if phone conversations are awkward and social networking only works until the onset of adolescence?
The commander, Gen. Tommy R. Franks, also recounts that much of his certainty that his troops would face attacks by banned weapons -- in particular biological or chemical arms -- came from conversations with King Abdullah II of Jordan and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
