Ringside seats at Fruit Fly Fight Club

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Moi — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:11:00 GMT

"One of my cousins was a fruit fly researcher. She took fruit fly testicles and squashed them and..."

She has... issues?

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Daniel Jin — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:10:00 GMT

"One of my cousins was a fruit fly researcher. She took fruit fly testicles and squashed them and then studied them under a microscope, looking for... something... I forget. I think just finding the fruit fly testicles in the first place was accomplishment enough."

it will take the rest of the day to laugh this one off. great piece, nice read.

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Tom Seddon — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:04:00 GMT

It is nice to now that the lame habit of choosing cutesy "cool" or "clever" names is not confined to naming variables in programs.

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Aarrgghh — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:16:00 GMT

Seddon: ...or subatomic particles.

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Alexey Feldgendler — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:27:00 GMT

This makes me remember a scientific paper named: "A theoretical proof and practial realization of the possibility of naming a scientific paper in such a ridiculous way".

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No name — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 23:18:00 GMT

I don't think all the "sonic" genes are related to the fruit-fly hedgehog one. I heard something about a gene that would change the orientation of your heart, called "sonic" because hedgehogs have their heart "put in backwards" relative to us. I imagine if we humans had it we'd feel for our heartbeats on the right side of our chests rather than the left.

The Josh List - v1.0

A Short Domain Name — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 21:10:00 GMT