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Scientists Find Gene That Controls Type of Earwax in People
NY Times ^
| January 30, 2006
| NICHOLAS WADE
Posted on 01/30/2006 3:02:26 AM PST by Pharmboy
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To: Fester Chugabrew
***Some types of earwax are used for sweet roll frosting recipes.***
No offense, but remind me never to have dinner at your house.
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posted on
01/30/2006 5:27:29 AM PST
by
Condor51
(Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
To: Pharmboy
My favorite rascists - the japanese
still making the south africans look like pikers.
Only they would have a study showing the superiority of asian earwax to european and african earwax ( and body odor).
Guess they haven't woke up and smelled the kimshi.
To: Pharmboy
I've read that Indians in the east have a higher incident of 'wet wax' than do Indians in the west.
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posted on
01/30/2006 5:50:04 AM PST
by
blam
To: Pharmboy
Quick, alert Bertie Bott!
Mark
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posted on
01/30/2006 5:51:27 AM PST
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: Ken H
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posted on
01/30/2006 5:53:58 AM PST
by
Fintan
(One day we'll look back on this and plow into a parked car.)
To: Pharmboy
And some folks thought this research would yield no useful products. Imagine - genetically engineered ear wax.
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posted on
01/30/2006 6:09:53 AM PST
by
jimfree
(Freep and Ye shall find.)
Mine is a thick paste that causes hearing loss at least 4 times a year.
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posted on
01/30/2006 6:13:06 AM PST
by
LukeL
To: Pharmboy
Marginal Genetic Genealogy ping?
NAAAAAAAAHHH
< |:)~
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posted on
01/30/2006 6:13:46 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(Hines Ward is my son! OK, not really, but it'd be nice.)
To: Mr. Brightside; PatrickHenry
I would think that PatrickHenry has them on one list...
49
posted on
01/30/2006 6:15:40 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
To: Pharmboy
I think if a person waits long enough between showers all people are created equal in the arm pit smell arena...
50
posted on
01/30/2006 6:19:01 AM PST
by
joesnuffy
(A camel once bit our sister.. but we knew what to do.. we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
01/30/2006 6:20:21 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
To: Pharmboy
Kewl! Will start a thread on that story.
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posted on
01/30/2006 6:22:24 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(Hines Ward is my son! OK, not really, but it'd be nice.)
To: Pharmboy; blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; StayAt HomeMother; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; asp1; ...
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posted on
01/30/2006 7:16:07 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(In the long run, there is only the short run.)
To: Pharmboy
My wife is Korean and always comments on how weird my earwax is..
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posted on
01/30/2006 7:22:17 AM PST
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: N3WBI3
You know, there are things called Q-tips.
Lawyer-driven-warning notwithstanding, they CAN be inserted into the ear and resolve this issue, so that we can all get along.
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posted on
01/30/2006 7:29:40 AM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: Fintan
LOL! What worries me is that all the wax runs out of my opposite ear.
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posted on
01/30/2006 8:11:24 AM PST
by
Ken H
To: N3WBI3
LOL! Hope that's the worst the cultural clash gets...
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posted on
01/30/2006 8:15:23 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
To: PatrickHenry
The last mystery is unveiled. Now we can all go home.
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posted on
01/30/2006 8:20:10 AM PST
by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: PatrickHenry; Pharmboy; longshadow; grey_whiskers
It's a little-known fact that globs of earwax provide excellent examples of Calabi-Yau manifolds:
![](http://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/images/earwax.gif)
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![](http://www.lactamme.polytechnique.fr/Mosaic/images/CAYA.51.0129.D/timbre.jpg)
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Earwax glob |
Calabi-Yau manifold |
To: PatrickHenry
I can't decide which is worse ... that they were looking for this, or that they got this fascinated by a chance discovery.
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posted on
01/30/2006 10:30:01 AM PST
by
Gumlegs
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