December 5th, 2003

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The First Bobble Head I’ve Ever Considered Buying

My braniac sister Lynsey (still stalkable, boys!) is currently working towards her PhD (I can never remember how to capitalize that term, which reflects my odds of obtaining one) in experimental medicine. I seriously considered buying her this James Dewey Watson bobble head. For those unfamiliar with icons of twentieth century biochemistry, determined the structure of DNA. But, at US $32 after shipping, it’s a bit pricey for a wobby, useless gift. I do really like how he’s clutching that double-helix as if he were selling a carpet at a Tunisian bizarre.

While I’m at it, could they have selected a worse model (or slogan) to sell this T-shirt? He looks like Andre the Giant’s slower, dumber cousin.

Where the heck did bobble-heads come from, anyway? They’re like the first pet rock of the 21st century.

Comments: 7 Responses so far

Imo
December 5th, 2003
12:07 pm

ah ha ha Darren -that’s hilarious!! What a good idea for the Lyns!!

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Mel
December 5th, 2003
3:02 pm

Do they have some deal on if you buy two? If so, you should get me one too!

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Lynsey
December 5th, 2003
4:01 pm

How sweet. Thank you
However as you may not know….Both watson and crick got credit for discovering the base pair and double helix form that is DNA…. BUT in fact they just stole the ideas of Rosalind Franklin who actually made the first steps toward the discovery. Incedently see was dead (due to radiation or something exposure) before the nobel prize was handed out and therefore would not have received it anyway. So a Rosalind Franklin bobble head would be more appropriate.

Future ref: Ph.D.

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Lynsey
December 5th, 2003
4:02 pm

oh dear…Darren better edit out those typo’s

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KRB
December 5th, 2003
10:21 pm

Yep, there was a long article on this heinous crime in the New Yorker or Harpers a while back. I’ll try to find it and give it to you for Xmas Lyns.
D-man: Shut down the computer and pay a visit to the library; you never know what you’ll learn.

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Mel
December 6th, 2003
1:28 pm

There’s a lot of controversy over whether Franklin didn’t get the Nobel and/or proper recognition for her work simply because she was a woman. Women may have had the vote in the 50s, but they still weren’t 100% welcome in the scientific community, especially when it came to discoveries of this magnitude.

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Rachel von Roeschlaub
December 10th, 2003
11:30 am

Thanks for the attention…pretty funny comments. The t-shirt model guy is a gym-rat that agreed to pose for me. Maybe you want to be our model? Looks like your photogenic.

Also, I wrote to Crick about his bobble head…no word yet. I’ll look into Rosalind Franklin.

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