haha something random I came across..any thoughts?..

Want a Tall Kid? Try a Long-Distance Relationship LiveScience.comBy Stephanie Pappas | LiveScience.com – Thu, 4 Aug, 2011 Check your atlas: The height of your child may be determined, in part, by how far apart mom and dad were born. If mom and dad were born in the same town, their children are slightly shorter on average than the kids of parents with far-flung origins, a new study finds. The researchers think the reason boils down to genetics: Parents originating in very different regions likely have very different genes relative to a mother and father who both grew up in the same hometown, where their own parents grew up. That greater genetic diversity may lead to children with bodies that operate more efficiently than others. Energy "saved" by this efficiency could then go to growth, said study author Dariusz Danel, of the Institute of Anthropology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. "This effect is visible in children during the three analyzed stages of the development period, ranging from 6 to 18 years of age," Danel told LiveScience. [5 Myths About the Male Body] Danel and his colleagues published their results online in July in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Growing tall Height is determined by a number of factors, including parents' height and socioeconomic status, because wealthier people tend to be better nourished. Earlier studies had found conflicting evidence about whether marital distance — the distance between parents' birthplaces — matters in how tall children get. Danel and his colleagues used a dataset of the heights of 2,675 boys and 2,603 girls in Poland, measured yearly in the children's schools. The researchers also had information on parental height and family income. [Read: Taller People Earn More Money] The latter two factors played an expected role in a child's height, but the researchers also found "unambiguous" evidence that marital distance mattered, too, Danel said. Marital distance explained about 20 percent of the variations in height among boys and 14 percent of the variations in height among girls, he said. What little boys are made of Marital distance may matter because even in our nomadic, globalized world, people who are born close to one another tend to have slightly more genetic similarities. Two people born farther from each other would thus be more genetically different, which could confer some genetic strengths on their offspring. This genetic diversity within an individual is called heterozygosity. Heterozygosity is more likely to express itself in greater height in boys than in girls, Danel said. Boys grow for a longer period of time and at a faster rate than girls do, so any extra energy savings boys get from their diversified genomes is freed up for the energy-intensive growing process. Girls, on the other hand, might shunt their extra energy into reproductive maturation, Danel said, though the current study did not test for this. Nowadays, most Western kids get more than enough energy through their diets to fuel their growth. But that wasn't always the case, Danel said. For much of human evolutionary history, nutrients were scarce and energy was at a premium. Under those conditions, the genetic strengths conferred by marital distance may have made an even larger difference in height. The study didn't test children's genomes for heterozygosity, so marital distance is only an indirect approximation of genetics, Danel said. He and his colleagues are now designing an experiment to test the genetic link directly. You can follow LiveScience senior writer Stephanie Pappas on Twitter @sipappas. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience and on Facebook.

^ AS somalis many of us take our religion for granted it is not even funny..and the parents make excuse for their kids " wa dhalinyaro" as if that justifies it and they gonna change once they get older (and i'm referring ladies who are referring to their 20 plus children gormay korayaan wa yaab or maybe 30 is the new 20 ) anyways this topic has been discussed over and over and over again lol just different article every few years!...honestly who gives

*^Maya walal Ms.Buuhoodle i just found what your mother said and your reply to her quite funny. It reminded me when my mother use to say similar things back in 2006 when Xamar had few months of peace but i suggested to her to forget about going to Xamar kk and instead we should sell all our properties there. LOL@ms buhodle horta ayeeyday macaan baa reer buhodle ah laakin saan filayo waad ku adkeesatay marka kama walayo..ms buhodle is aiight... tan labaad xamar xasiloni way gadhasa...as for selling properties? if your family waited over 20 years to sell that property what would be the point of selling it now?? at least sell it partially if u need the money but keep it as long as you can..xasiloni wa la gaadhi taasi shaki kuma jirto! it is just matter of time..my 2 cents.. salaam

Good answer Nassir. Insha'allah ducada hala badiyo... Alshabab was causing a lot issues within the city, even thou like u said the TFG has its own shortcomings and we shouldnt solely blame Alshabab..laakin markay shabab shekada ka baxdo bal aan aragno waxay la yimadaan...anaga kolay nabad iyo xasiloni aya nala wacan saad sheegtay xamar dalko dhan ayeey sameenasa oo wa casimadeeni.. salaam

LOL I know I insult somali parents and the way they parent..laakin ma ogen odayaashana in aan maago markay arintu guur noqoto, I think I hold both men and women accountable for their deeds.. ee armaad dacayadeeda markan odayasha bidaarta leh iska magayo qalad u fahantay ..either way bal xaal hoo and yaaay u got 1000 posts..damn I have almost 7000 posts over 5 years! I need to get a life LOL

I am glad u guys liked it..I love this video! Baarqab I know you can insert videos..bt for some reason for couple days now I can;t insert nothing and that happen to me using different computers. So I thought it was something to do with Sol..or maybe Not!..

Juxa that's nice u lived here ehh ...I don't really go to somali mosques. Khalid barely. been to darulhijra couple of times. I prefer IMO and couple of other mosques... Farax lol if people are pissed around you it can annoy u..but u know aduunka wa baladhanyahay she can just change mosques. *Lol Aaliyah they made you sit with the youth maba oga inaad the mind of 50jir leedahay! You right about the chit chats. In my local waxa joogta Masriyad leh Sh!!!!!!!Sh. I love her Lol it is not that I have the mind of a 50 yrs old subhanalah I am not even half that age see weeye meel ba igaga dhacday ..it is just that they were gossiping when I was tryin to listen to the shiekh making khutbah walahi I was personally offended! I didnt travel all the way there for nothing dee..I dont knoe if those girls live around the area and just came to the mosque to catch up or somein.. salaam p.s I am sure no one was conversing downstairs in the mosque mesha dumarka joogta ee qolka dhalinyarada no one was really supervising..they seemed to be chilling lol go figure chilling in the mosque wa yaab..anyways this was a while back..havent been there for a while!..n its good to have qof dadka kala amusiya sida gabadhaas masriyada aa shegasid i remember masjid aan ku tukan jiray islaan mar walba dadka kala amusin jirtay oo somali kenyati ah..maalin dhoweed ayaan la kulmay she was asking me how im doing and stuff such a nice lady! ..dadkaas oo kale wa lo bahanyahay!

^I am sure princess doesnt go there to socialize n was just talking abt ppl's attitude it is good to see people in a good mood at the mosque after all to smile is sunnah....bt many ppl actually go there to socialize.. I remember once going to khalid binu walid mosque which is some somali mosque at the west end of Toronto and they wouldnt let me sit downstairs with the ladies..qol dhalinyaro ku jirto bay igusoo xidheen which I didn't mind but they kept gossiping..and I was rather annoyed lol..who gossips in a mosque subhanalah..I kept telling the volunteers I want to go downstairs to sit with the ladies and i dnt wanna be in this room which bunch of dimwits finally they allowed me after long arguments back n forth!.. salam

speaking about watermelon, I eat watermelon as a fruit not as a afur lol are u people on diet? btw check this out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq9QJVKR_1Q the cutest lil one ever..the parents must be retarded though..

haha luving it!

^^ma waxba kasoo lumay mr somalilander wa suaale

LOL that is a possibility!..

LOL we are having a silly conversation..pardon my boredsome..qamandigaaga haku macanaado

^Somalis will not be masters over themselves taasi wa riyo...the international countries will obviously take advantage of us by choosing who is going to be the next leader of somalia..whom they will manipulate as they want! ..laakin aniga taas maba daneeyo I just want nabad iyo xasilaan la helo! ka dib hala is weydiiyo who is gonna lead!.hada waqtiga ma joogno! I am glad alshabab in magalada laga saaray!..rabshad moye kolay waxkale ee wadeene ma maqlin.. secondly, my mother is too happy already xamar baan dagaya bay leedahay ..im like hooyo slow down shekadu ma dhowa! lol inshallah khyr! salaam

neither do we, just Ramadan! but that still doesn't excuse you for not knowing sareen shame!..qamandi beel LOL Joking!

I am a lil slow, I googled "somali" and I was like I don't see anything new LOL..oh we were suppose to google somali words! MY bad LOL

something completely random, I was just in a public washroom. And, as I was fixing my xijaab this lady comes out of the toilet and comes like really close to me and then goes "hey I am blind" where is the sink..and my heart just sank! walahi I felt like going in tears and i told her walk straight a bit more and she found the water n then she was like is there a paper towel and I am like no but theres the hand dryer and again I gave her the directions ...and after she walked out of the bathroom struggling I went into tears subhanalah..how many of us take our sight for granted !..one more thing to be thankful for!..

lol@ Min-Jee.. bt luving the name aragsan..I love that name! alle hakaga dhigo ti ku anfacda..laakin waxad korean uso xaresatay wali is waydinaya...and there are million single Farahs in T.O..see weeye salaam

Waa run somalia waxkale bay noqon laheed, inshallah khyr bay noqon!

lol @ I live with her! ouch...now markay sareenka ku kariso maxay dhahada? ayeeyo qamandiga cun! LOL..

lol haa malinkasta waxbad korarsan..intan noshahay wuxun ba ku laban aya la dhaha I think it is time that ppl go back home to contribute whatever they can ..I wouldnt wanna live there persay! but at least in aan dadkeena wax tarno... salaam

Ismahan thats old news dee lol..I have heard that many somali students are send to china to pursue undergrad especially from back home....n i have heard numerous times ppl leaving canada/states to study medical school down there i guess they have good schools there... haa hada somali nahay meelkasta waan joogna oo dan iyo duruuf aya nageesay for the most part! salaam

ma sareen baa maanta garan weydey and u say ur ayeeyo is from buhodle! ur ayeeyo would be rather disappointed!LOL salaam p.s qamandi? sounds another lingo all together! LOL

Good msg. I hope the international government step up even more. Somalia needs all the help they can get!..may allah swt reward her as well for her good efforts! Nina, she came from Kenya in her mid 20s right? or somewhere around that age. I don't think one can lose accent just like that. Btw pple speak many other languages...aduunku af ingriisi kaliya ma aha!.. salaam p.s That picture Che posted is just heartbreaking subhanalah...allow u gargar umadeena!