To: Willie Green; Chad Fairbanks
Blocking cells from receiving dopamine made the monkeys work harder at a task -- and they were better at it, too, the U.S. government researchers found. They masturbated and flung poo furiously.
To: Willie Green
Ah, yes... minor chan ge in gene code changes behavior. Score yet another one for evolution...
To: Willie Green
Uh-oh... cubicle rats for large corpaorations better shy away from the coffee pot and water cooler- bring your own drinks.
To: Willie Green
. They had to push a lever in response to visual cues on a projection screen, and got a drop of water as a reward.
"Joe Bob realizes these geniuses never even considered it could be just making the dang monkeys thirstier"
To: Willie Green
So, what the son-in-law needs is gene therapy?
/john
To: Willie Green
Procrastinating monkeys were turned into workaholics using a gene treatment to block a key brain compound, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday. "And this is one technology that we must suppress," said the government employees.
To: Willie Green
Interesting. I’m kind of like a workaholic, only my case, it’s liquor.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
10 posted on
08/11/2004 3:18:36 PM PDT by
End Times Sentinel
(“Cocaine is a powerful drug, b*tches.” R.I.P. Rick James.)
To: Willie Green
This little fella, for instance, rarely used to pick up his sticks and could NOT keep a beat.
17 posted on
08/11/2004 3:46:34 PM PDT by
itsamelman
(“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
To: Willie Green
Our pristine brains become hardwired by what we are led to believe in; thus many of us become prisoners of our own device.
To: Willie Green
Gene Blocker Turns Monkeys Into Workaholics The difference between conservatives and liberals(?)
20 posted on
08/11/2004 3:57:46 PM PDT by
The Duke
To: Willie Green
"Off to work. No time to chat."
To: Willie Green
This is great news. I'll be able to layoff half the monkeys I currently have trying to type Hamlet.
23 posted on
08/11/2004 4:08:15 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Sandy, is that a top secret document in your pants or are you just happy to see me?)
To: Willie Green
Reminds me of "Focus" in Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky.
To: Willie Green
"Like many of us, monkeys normally slack off initially in working toward a distant goal," he added."
Hey this reminds me.... where is that manuscript I'm working on?
Oh yeah, under the couch. For me, decluttering is also a "distant goal." ;)
To: Willie Green
One step closer to that Brave New World, eh?
27 posted on
08/11/2004 4:37:12 PM PDT by
Weaver95
To: Willie Green
I only need to press the "Refresh" button on the "latest posts" page 34,682 more times until I'm finished for the evening.
32 posted on
08/11/2004 10:15:00 PM PDT by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
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