Re: Guest Post - unfogged journal club

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So what, Halford is Inuit?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 8:11 AM
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The link wants me to sign up for access, which isn't happening, free or no.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 8:33 AM
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The biochemistry of turning food into energy and proteins interests me a lot

That's the only reason I ever eat. The wings are all for science and I have a hypothesis about the blue cheese dressing.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 2:25 PM
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So what, Halford is Inuit?

I knew it!


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 2:54 PM
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Only between the sheets.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 3:19 PM
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Won't somebody think of the Danish missionaries.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 3:38 PM
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You can use sci-hub to access the paper. These instructions tell you how to make a bookmark to quickly access sci-hub from a paper's URL. https://twitter.com/Protohedgehog/status/1005837592275881984


Posted by: Ponder Stibbons | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 4:28 PM
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I bet the Danes are the same, just less so. Eating less sexy fatty acids; cod as opposed to walrus, say.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 5:08 PM
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6 They're not having a very good day today.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 5:23 PM
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I just assumed that referred to some hair-raising atrocity I'd not yet heard of, but no, just trivia. Such a rare experience these days.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 6:25 PM
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The World Cup is not trivial, my good man.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 6:27 PM
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Indeed, construction debts linger for years.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 6:32 PM
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Not to mention the FIFA-stench.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 6:33 PM
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Well, besides all that.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 6:40 PM
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Is Arrakis 2022 still on?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 6:43 PM
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I haven't heard anything different.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07- 1-18 6:59 PM
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arachidonic acid

I don't care what kind of high people say they get—I ain't gonna trip on no spider acid.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 07- 2-18 6:43 AM
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There was a study a couple years ago showing that Inuit have a markedly higher prevalence of sucrose intolerance due to some mutation or other. I found this particularly interesting because it's maladaptive, so it must have arisen either as a side effect of a more adaptive mutation or through random drift that wasn't selected against because of the environmental conditions.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 07- 2-18 12:12 PM
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18: Helps keep waist circumference high along with intolerance, which is likely a net advantage in cold weather with a local diet.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3781528/

Sorry about the paywall in the original, should have checked that. In contrast to Nature which allows linking to fulltext, the best solution for science is apparently 7.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 07- 2-18 12:29 PM
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Well, registrationwall, but still not worth the hassle for anyone not professionally interested.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 07- 2-18 12:31 PM
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Don't blame yourself, lw. Blame my parochial liberal-arts nature.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07- 2-18 5:57 PM
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