I can be one of the cool crowd! Really!
I was not specifically tagged by realcdaae or misfratz.
1. Grab the nearest book. (N.B. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.)
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag 5 people.
*sigh* From Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel. Very interesting book, but like a lot of scientists writing for a popular audience he labours points to make sure that everyone gets them. And no, this wasn't actually the closest book but it was the closest book I could use. Two closer books had no page numbers. No, I'm not shitting you. One was an old Fighting Fantasy book I borrowed from vivienne_aster for a bit of nostalgia and the other was the stupendous volume The Devil's Collection: A Cynic's Dictionary. Two volumes with so much potential gold and I couldn't use either of them...anyway:
"If the conditions change, different types of individuals may now survive or reproduce better and become 'naturally selected,' with the result that the population undergoes evolutionary change. A classic example is the development of industrial melanism in British moths: darker moth individuals became relatively commoner than paler individuals as the environment became dirtier during the 19th century, because dark moths resting on a dark, dirty tree were more likely than contrasting pale moths to escape the attention of predators.
"Much as the Industrial Revolution changed the environment for moths, farming changed the environment for plants."
Why do scientists always write such long sentences? I'm guilty of this myself.
For some reason I'm finding it quite hard to motivate myself. All I want to do today is stay at home in my jocks and watch Star Trek. This would be a really bad idea. Not just because I have so much work to do, but because I'm in danger of becoming a hermit. Getting up at 10 doesn't help either... I need some exercise. My beer gut's attempting to take over my entire body, like some sort of parasitic growth.
OK. Motivation. Shower-ation. Go to the lab. Extract DNA. Write some sections. Etc etc etc...
1. Grab the nearest book. (N.B. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.)
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag 5 people.
*sigh* From Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel. Very interesting book, but like a lot of scientists writing for a popular audience he labours points to make sure that everyone gets them. And no, this wasn't actually the closest book but it was the closest book I could use. Two closer books had no page numbers. No, I'm not shitting you. One was an old Fighting Fantasy book I borrowed from vivienne_aster for a bit of nostalgia and the other was the stupendous volume The Devil's Collection: A Cynic's Dictionary. Two volumes with so much potential gold and I couldn't use either of them...anyway:
"If the conditions change, different types of individuals may now survive or reproduce better and become 'naturally selected,' with the result that the population undergoes evolutionary change. A classic example is the development of industrial melanism in British moths: darker moth individuals became relatively commoner than paler individuals as the environment became dirtier during the 19th century, because dark moths resting on a dark, dirty tree were more likely than contrasting pale moths to escape the attention of predators.
"Much as the Industrial Revolution changed the environment for moths, farming changed the environment for plants."
Why do scientists always write such long sentences? I'm guilty of this myself.
For some reason I'm finding it quite hard to motivate myself. All I want to do today is stay at home in my jocks and watch Star Trek. This would be a really bad idea. Not just because I have so much work to do, but because I'm in danger of becoming a hermit. Getting up at 10 doesn't help either... I need some exercise. My beer gut's attempting to take over my entire body, like some sort of parasitic growth.
OK. Motivation. Shower-ation. Go to the lab. Extract DNA. Write some sections. Etc etc etc...