Word: rutabaga
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...situations and when. Under normal conditions, flies doze off, even during the day, after engaging in intense social activities, including courtship, acclimating to a new environment and fighting over mates and territory. But Shaw found that when flies were genetically bred to be missing the three genes - colorfully named rutabaga, period and blistered - that, among other functions, help regulate sleep, they failed to fall asleep after busy episodes of social activity...
James Fallon, a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine, is skeptical. "So I take a rutabaga and put it close to my head, and it somehow changes the food and improves the mood of the person who ate it?" he asks...
...food was very good," Robert T. MacOnie said. "We all fancied the scalloped rutabaga. The steak was good and appropriately cooked...
Gordon Hammersley, Hammersley's Bistro, Tremont St. "Oysters on the half shell with as much champagne as we can get in. Turkey with a myriad of vegetables--turnips brussels sprouts my favorite, lots of rutabaga I love Rutabaga gizzards of turkey made into confit--braised in duck and goosefeet. cranberry sauce with scotch bonnet hot peppers and gravy--in the restaurant business we call it sauce, at home we call it gravy...
Science, or anyway science fiction, marches on. It seems only yesterday (though actually it was 1951) that the Thing was nothing more than James Arness dressed up to look like a rutabaga with legs, galumphing around an Arctic research station, scaring the wits out of its personnel. Now the scientists' camp has moved to Antarctica, and the Thing is no longer a thing. It still comes from outer space, but instead of being a monster, it is a kind of infection worming its way into animal forms, turning them into monsters...