"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Now Here's a Strange One
A trout with two mouths caught in a Nebraska lake. I'll leave all the bad puns to you guys.
I just finished reading "Nature Via Nurture" by Matt Ridley. It has completely exploded much of my thinking about genetics -- not in the sense of destroying what I knew but in the sense of enlightening me massively and in a hurry. He spends time explaining the genes that are on and off switches and how sensitive they are to time and environment. Clearly there was something preventing the "off" switch from doing it's job after one mouth was finished. Our emotions, the stuff in the water, all sorts of surprising stuff can mess things up without even a mutation in the DNA genes. It's interesting that the fish can have lived so long. One would think it would die right out of the egg.
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I just finished reading "Nature Via Nurture" by Matt Ridley. It has completely exploded much of my thinking about genetics -- not in the sense of destroying what I knew but in the sense of enlightening me massively and in a hurry. He spends time explaining the genes that are on and off switches and how sensitive they are to time and environment. Clearly there was something preventing the "off" switch from doing it's job after one mouth was finished. Our emotions, the stuff in the water, all sorts of surprising stuff can mess things up without even a mutation in the DNA genes. It's interesting that the fish can have lived so long. One would think it would die right out of the egg.
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