Jul. 19th, 2005

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Simon Conway Morris is no Jeffrey Lockwood, but I have made it to the fourth chapter of Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe and been rewarded with today's fun science fact, which I now share, in wildly paraphrased form, with all of you:

Many organic molecules exist in identical mirror-reversed forms; just as hands come in left and right, there are left- and right-handed amino acids (and the amino acids that make up every living thing on Earth are overwhelmingly left-handed, which is why Conway Morris was talking about it). The most famous example of molecule handedness, apparently, although I'd never heard of it, is a molecule called limonene, which produces two strong smells: (+)-limonene is found in oranges, (-)-limonene in pine needles. Same molecule, reversed--opposite smells.

And now, back to processing my second-to-last batch of serials for binding.
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This is me, not thinking about tomorrow's trip to the dentist, tomorrow's slew of moving- and credit-card-debt-related phone calls, or the Supreme Court. Instead, a meme!

Selectively swiped from [livejournal.com profile] pearl_o among others: If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence/paragraph/whatever from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favorite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else -- this is merely to whet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s).

(I did this one in November, when it was NaNo-appropriate, and posted snippets from seven WIPs. 1.083 of them got finished in the intervening eight months, and the rest... probably won't be. Also, in November, they were all from one fandom and now they're, uh. Not.)

Anyway, ExpandWIPs: )

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