Wednesday, December 12, 2018
CARVER!
The ghost of Carver is happy!
Carver, of course, defined science.
(1) LOOK ABOUT YOU.
(2) TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.
(3) LET THEM TALK TO YOU.
(4) TALK TO THEM.
Following his orders literally and sequentially, a Nova Scotia biologist found something hugely interesting:
Algonquian beaded purse:
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Sidenote: I purely love the awkwardly swimming description. This is exactly what "Let them talk to you" means. Eglit isn't blinded by theory goggles, isn't presuming that a simple critter is incapable of thought or emotions.
Yana Eglit is a Dalhousie graduate student dedicated to discovering novel lineages of the single-cell eukaryotes called protists. While hiking in Nova Scotia on a cold spring day in 2016, she fell back(1) from her friends to scrape(2) a few grams of dirt into a plastic tube. Late one evening, something odd in the sample caught her eye. An elongated cell radiating whiplike flagella was “awkwardly swimming, as though it didn’t realize it had all these flagella that could help it move,” Eglit said(3). Under a more powerful scope, she saw it fit the description of a hemimastigote, a rare kind of protist that was notoriously hard to cultivate.The lab then used(4) newly developed gene sequencing technologies, and found that the critter didn't fit in any of the currently defined kingdoms. They named the critter in currently fashionable style:
Hemimastix kukwesjijk, the newly described hemimastigote named after a “hairy, rapacious ogre” from the traditions of the Mi’kmaq First Nation of Nova Scotia, where the specimen was collected.Well, if you're going to do the Indigenouses Firstses Nationses Peopleseseses thingses, you don't need to go into fanciful folktaleses with lots of a'p`o's`tr'o`ph`es'e`ses in their nameseses. Hemimastigote:
Algonquian beaded purse:
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Sidenote: I purely love the awkwardly swimming description. This is exactly what "Let them talk to you" means. Eglit isn't blinded by theory goggles, isn't presuming that a simple critter is incapable of thought or emotions.
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