Wednesday, October 11, 2006
A recent email exchange between myself and a friend who is an editor for a science journal at a local university:
HER:
ME:
HER:
HER:
Subject: No appendage movement
Here's a line from one of our manuscripts that describes how my week has been going so far...
An amphipod was scored as dead if no appendage movement was discernible after repeated, gentle prodding.
ME:
You made me spit coke from my nose you bitch. What the HELL is an amphipod and why are they poking it? And if they want to really know if it's dead they need to poke it harder.
HER:
It's some kind of small aquatic organism. They always appear to be dousing them in chemicals and then prodding them. Gently. Actually, one of the funniest ones we got was one where they had a scale of effects of the chemical on the organism that went something like:
1 normal
3 deformed
5 dissolved (meaning the organism)
Ya know if it dissolves some aquatic creature it's probably bad news in general.
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# posted by Carol : 3:48 PM
