And that reason, is science
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Scott's miscellanies by Scott Keir
I think this is going to be a fairly varied collection of posts on stuff to do with art, science, culture, geekery and science communication. But we'll see, eh? And, just to be clear, what I type here is my own opinion, not my employers'.
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There's a reason I don't eat pizza
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- Saturday, 26 Jul y 2008 - 15:23 UTC
Last updated: Saturday, 26 Jul 2008 - 15:23 UTC
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Amazing scientific findings. No more pizza for me !!
I agree, except that I’d change the statement slightly: There’s a reason I don’t eat Dominos pizza. I’ll happily eat pizzas homemade by friends or myself.
The one exception to that would be a “pizza” made by a Japanese colleague, who explained that his favorite pizza consisted of a Boboli crust, mashed potatoes, ketchup, mayonnaise, peas, corn, and tuna or BBQ chicken. Blech.
Blech indeed. I did enjoy the sight of the cardboard-and-Oreo-cookies pizza, and the strawberry milkshake dessert pizza, for their sheer repulsiveness. After a long and very hot day at the Maison Des Girrafes one could conceive of the golden retriever, siamese cat, guinea-pig, chicken, hamster, corn
dogsnake and small child meat feast pizza. With a melted cheese and basil topping.Cambridge legend has it that a zoology lecturer once celebrated the end of term by cooking up what he called a ‘Five Phylum Stew’. Coming up with four phyla is relatively easy -
Chordata – fish, chicken, steak, dog, cat, child etc;
Echinodermata – sea urchin
gonadsroe;Mollusca – clams, squid, slugs and so on
Arthropoda – shrimp, lobster, scorpions, locusts etc.
But unless you cheat and subdivide arthropods, what you’re left with, pretty much, is worms.
Unless you like jellyfish.
Oh come now Henry, what about plants and fungi? Or are you so Animalista centric that you don’t consider plants and fungi to have Phyla?