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Gulf Spill Cocktail

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Gastrulation

It was, Lewis Wolpert admits, a rather pretentious thing to say. The renowned biologist and author was at a European scientific meeting with colleagues when a doctor delegate asked him what he was researching. Gastrulation, Wolpert replied. The doctor’s declaration of ignorance was briskly met with: “It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation […]

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Noodly appendages

The Flying Spaghetti Monster resting with its noodly appendages after creating the universe.