Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things really excited Weiss in his early years. One was reading Tom Swift at the age of seven ("It drove me crazy?I wanted to go to the moon myself; I was Tom"). The other was meeting a biology teacher who had "a whole garage full of tropical fish," and who "was the first person who got inside my brain and picked." Otherwise, Weiss was mainly untouched by social concerns or intellectual interests. Brian arrived at U.C.L.A. uncertain of what he wanted to be come. He majored in zoology, barely got passing grades for two years. "They were fact-piling...
Among the most famous was the stealing of the Massachusetts State symbol, Boston's Sacred Cod, a large wooden fish, on April 26, 1933. According to the Boston Post of April 27, 1933, "Since 1798 until some time between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. the sacred, silent emblem of Massachusetts had held a place of honor in the state House...
...What do fish have...
...Second, there may exist a distinct kind of particle which binds the RNA messenger, protects it, and possibly even stores it in the cytoplasm till it is needed. The existence of these hypothetical particles, which are called "informosomes," or information-carriers, was first postulated by Russian scientists working with fish embryos four years ago. Using essentially their method, Kafatos last year identified particles that may be informosomes in insects. His report was published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. He regards both his and the Russians' results as somewhat inconclusive, however, because...
...highly developed part of the brain (the cortex) produced a special kind of RNA as well as proteins. A similar thing happened in goldfish that were forced to learn a new kind of swimming by having buoyant plastic foam stuck under their chins by Dr. Victor Shashoua of M.I.T. Fish that Dr. Shashoua made work just as hard swimming against a current, but without learning anything new, did not produce extra...