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Asparagus in your urine?

January 28, 2009 By: enrico Category: genetics 4 Comments →

This is the first in an occasional series of urine-oriented surveys:  can you smell asparagus in your urine after eating the spear-like vegetable?  Enrico can.  It only takes about 10 or 15 minutes.

FWIW, Enrico cannot roll his tongue.

Tracing contributions to genetic material

May 28, 2008 By: enrico Category: whatnot No Comments →

I found this article through slashdot.  The underlying article has several divx movies which depict the geographic source of genetic contributions to the populations of the study sites.  Raiding Orkney Islanders siring fine young bairns in Siberia?  Apparently, once you try Siberian, you never go back.

 Here’s a deep link to one of the movies.


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