The perils of poor housing
"...Spemann's organizer was discovered by Hans Spemann's grad student Hilde Mangold. Spemann got the Nobel Prize. Hilde lived in crappy grad student housing and killed herself*. You can't win a Nobel posthumously. Moral of the story, if you want to win the Nobel, don't live in crappy housing."- one of the Path 750 lecturers
*Gilbert's Developmental Biology says Mangold died when the gas stove in her apartment exploded. I guess that's why most crappy apartments now have electric stoves...to preserve the lives of potential Nobel laureates. =P
posted by xenobiologista @ 01:00
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All I had during the four years I was in the US Air Force was an electric hotplate and a microwave.
Ten years later, I still haven't won the Nobel prize. I guess hence the "potential." :(
I figured it was a Stargate reference when I read your comment. :) I loved the old series with Jack O'Neil before Claudia Black and Ben Browder of Farscape joined the team. I still like Stargate: Atlantis.
Naah... I was enlisted. You know the enlisted guy always sits in front of the big window and looks at the computer screens while the away teams get to have all the fun. The enlisted geeks do all the important stuff, like chevron alignment and locking. Officers get to visit strange new worlds with their civilian friends.
No wormholes for me... They wouldn't let me near the thing. :(
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