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Hello Learned Ones ! I am following my program "Do now what you never had time to do in the past years" & just watched Friends (season 10) 11th episode "The One Where the Stripper Cries" (Feb. 2004) . I was flabbergasted at Danny DeVito 's performance as a distorted and aged stripper. I also brooded (as a M.D., & from a medical point of view) about his legs problem : hidden by the pantaloon he kept on, they seemed to me very thin, paralysed, & not flexing, maybe held up by stilts, while his torso seems about normal. WP does not give any hint about his ailment. Can somebody tell me what it is ? Poliomyelitis sequel ? Neural horse-tail malformation ? General osteo-formation disease ? Anyway, hats down in front of the man's stamina & mind power ! Thanks beforehand for your answers. T;y. Arapaima ( talk) 09:02, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
I am an instructor of a bioinformatics course at the University of Minnesota. We write Wikipedia articles each year on human genes of unknown function for which there are usually only stubs at the outset. I forwarded a message from someone going by "Boghog" (Boghog (talk) 17:35, 13 May 2013 (UTC) asking me to contact him so that I could ensure my students' pages are more compliant with the format of other Gene Wiki articles. I'm not sure how to contact him but perhaps you could help me do this. He gave no email address. Thanks!
David Matthes University of Minnesota — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.84.13.8 ( talk) 20:04, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
What's the minimum required dose of non-bedrest to prevent permanent damage? (On Earth). The nasa bed rest study apparently causes permanent damage. 12.196.0.56 ( talk) 22:20, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Is this the correct sequence; gamete, zygote, morula, blastocyst, embryo, fetus? If so, are there any which i have missed out on?
Why is octanol thicker than octane? At least by boiling point, if not actually thickness. Long enough alcohols become solid even at body temperature. Is there like a gel phase or do they just suddenly freeze? What would it be like to swallow or gargle various pure alcohols? I'm not going to try it (okay, I put 70% isopropyl in my mouth once - My palate instantly shriveled like a prune). Even if it'd just be shriveling and pain at least tell me what the consistency would be like. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.196.0.56 ( talk) 22:41, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Learned Ones ! I am following my program "Do now what you never had time to do in the past years" & just watched Friends (season 10) 11th episode "The One Where the Stripper Cries" (Feb. 2004) . I was flabbergasted at Danny DeVito 's performance as a distorted and aged stripper. I also brooded (as a M.D., & from a medical point of view) about his legs problem : hidden by the pantaloon he kept on, they seemed to me very thin, paralysed, & not flexing, maybe held up by stilts, while his torso seems about normal. WP does not give any hint about his ailment. Can somebody tell me what it is ? Poliomyelitis sequel ? Neural horse-tail malformation ? General osteo-formation disease ? Anyway, hats down in front of the man's stamina & mind power ! Thanks beforehand for your answers. T;y. Arapaima ( talk) 09:02, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
I am an instructor of a bioinformatics course at the University of Minnesota. We write Wikipedia articles each year on human genes of unknown function for which there are usually only stubs at the outset. I forwarded a message from someone going by "Boghog" (Boghog (talk) 17:35, 13 May 2013 (UTC) asking me to contact him so that I could ensure my students' pages are more compliant with the format of other Gene Wiki articles. I'm not sure how to contact him but perhaps you could help me do this. He gave no email address. Thanks!
David Matthes University of Minnesota — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.84.13.8 ( talk) 20:04, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
What's the minimum required dose of non-bedrest to prevent permanent damage? (On Earth). The nasa bed rest study apparently causes permanent damage. 12.196.0.56 ( talk) 22:20, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Is this the correct sequence; gamete, zygote, morula, blastocyst, embryo, fetus? If so, are there any which i have missed out on?
Why is octanol thicker than octane? At least by boiling point, if not actually thickness. Long enough alcohols become solid even at body temperature. Is there like a gel phase or do they just suddenly freeze? What would it be like to swallow or gargle various pure alcohols? I'm not going to try it (okay, I put 70% isopropyl in my mouth once - My palate instantly shriveled like a prune). Even if it'd just be shriveling and pain at least tell me what the consistency would be like. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.196.0.56 ( talk) 22:41, 29 January 2014 (UTC)