Were it that easy. The illustration involves an ice cave that gradually morphs into dermal layers (our drug is for neuropathic pain). The entire campaign would need to be scratched.

sighhhhh

You could make it a cave bear! If only Ayla had invented a drug for neuropathic pain they'd still be with us today.

If only Ayla had invented a drug for neuropathic pain they'd still be with us today

And Jondalar could grace us all with his "woman maker"!!!

Ah. I feel you on that. I have that reaction to all of Wes Anderson's movies. [Cue Hec telling me I'm a philistine.]

Me too!

"WE are the ones who make the decisions regarding what > Erin is capable of reading. WE have discussed material in books with her. WE decide what she can or cannot read. And WE have decided she is capable of reading this book."

The library wants to take the above away from me, apparently.

No, the library wants that discussion to be between you and her, without the library as an intermediary. Just because you and your daughter can talk about books does not mean that all parents can.

I was often in trouble for reading, although as I got older I refined my skills in secretly reading through every class.

Boris Vallejo maybe?

Michael Whelan

This is cool:

Organovo Has Its First Commercial 3D Bioprinter

Need a new kidney? We’ll just take some of your blood and in about six weeks grow you a new one. That’s the promise of 3D bioprinting and one of the companies on the forefront of the technology just took a step closer to make it a reality. Organovo developed a research prototype of a bioprinter capable of producing very basic tissues like blood vessels. According to the recent press release, Invetech, Organovo’s strategic partner, will be providing the company with commercial versions of their device in 2010 to 2011. While it is still limited to simple tissue structures (full organs are a long ways off), Organovo plans to deliver the printers to various research institutions interested in organ and tissue production. Working with these institutions, Organovo hopes to one day progress to creating a system that can print organs as easily as other 3D printers print plastic figurines.

If only Ayla had invented a drug for neuropathic pain they'd still be with us today.

You mean she didn't? Must have been the only thing she didn't invent...

Timelies all!

I don't remember my parents telling me that there was anything I wasn't allowed to read. (Granted they restricted my library time during the school year at one point because they thought I'd neglect my school work.)

They were worried I'd ruin my eyes by reading in my room with only a table lamp as light. I'm the only one in my family who doesn't need glasses.

Mad Magazine and comic books were the only thing I wasn't allowed to read. The comic book prohibition confused me, but later I learned about all the anti-comic-book hysteria in the '50s that must have influenced my dad.

Heh. Valley of Horses was my Forever. I remember some of my slightly older girlfriends talking about how naughty Forever was when I was about 9. They showed it to me (I had no idea what it was) and I rolled my eyes, and hauled out Auel and started reading the naughty bits to them on the sidewalk outside out apartment.

I had MAD street sex cred.

I think Ginger is right with the library "talking to your kids" thing. I absolutely did not censor a thing (except manga) when it came to my classroom library. If a parent had a problem, I would absolutely allow them to determine what heir child could or could not read, but I would not allow my library to be censored. And I'm not sure I would act as a policing officer. It never came up, that a parent said "I don't want my child to read this and this" (remember, I taught high school.)

If it had been on my curriculum, I certainly would have honored that and created an alternate assignment, after a discussion with the parent...but it would be very hard for me to censor an adolescent's reading, especially if it were something like sexual content.

I don't know. I'm glad it never came up.

Steph, I cannot read in a car, but I discovered on my recent car trup to Minneapolis that I can watch video on my iTouch without car sickness. WIN.

My mother took me and my sister to see the infamous Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit when I was in high school (can't remember what year, but I was maximum aged 17 and Nutty max. 14). And she kept both Our Bodies Our Selves and Anais Nin openly in the bookshelves we read from.