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Hardest game in the woooorld....

Nope, just went for a new job and got it. It took lots of training to do but I was paid for it. Truth be told I didn't know what it was all about and I kind of landed on my feet.
 
Biggles said:
I didn't enjoy the video

1) because I think giant psycho centipedes are pretty gross.

2) because it was filmed for vicarious pleasure rather than any natural science insight. As rule people who keep pets that prey on mice, such as spiders, snakes and giant centipedes, feed them dead ones warmed up to body temp. They don't usually lob a live one into the cage for fun.

3) It is actually possible to pick pet spiders and snakes up - the latter quite enjoy it - but giant centipedes are very poisonous and are not desperately cuddly.
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Point 2...spot on.
 
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I'm genuinely not seeing your problem. The event itself is perfectly natural and would happen whether or not the pricks filmed it. All they are doing is recording what is happening, they aren't actually causing it to happen per se.

It's really not any different to what someone like David Attenborough does. He and people like him record nature, as it happens then broadcast it to millions of people. Which is exactly what happens in that video.

I have seen BBC documentaries which show that type of thing happening. How is it different.

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CrabGirl said:
You've done well there. I'm glad you are using your degree in your job. The nearest I get is talking about vineyard pests!
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I didn't tell them my specialisation was in botany...that's what my final year was on :shifty:. You have to lie a little bit don't you? I mean a lie of omission isn't as bad as one of addition, and I was desperate.....right? :unsure:.

So are you working for defra or something or a private company? I know people from my course who are working for banks or in the service sector....now that's a real waste of a science degree I think.
 
It's not really my paper. The science behind it belongs to the lab, but the technical side is what I advised on. I'm surprised they gave me a co-authorship to be honest, but I have reasoned that if I hadn't been doing my job so well they would have got half as much info as they needed, and I did advise them with some specific things they didn't know how to do. Although to be honest I would have been happy with an acknowledgement.

Anyway, the paper is about a gene that among other things contributes to limb formation. It's present in mammals, amphibians, fish, even in animals without limbs where it's expressed in the region they would form if they had them (ie torso). The lab wanted to find out how it goes about helping limbs to form, all the various things that interact with it to do its job. I have to be a bit vague anyway because there's a competition issue and I don't want to get in trouble :unsure:.
 
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