Last week's molecule was N-(2-aminoethyl)glycine, a molecule that has been used to build artificial DNA molecules. The winner was Michael Rasmussen [Monday's Molecule #193].
This week's molecule is a real pisser. You'll have to give the complete, unambiguous, formal name AND explain why we don't make it.
Post your answer as a comment. I'll hold off releasing any comments for 24 hours. The first one with the correct answer wins. I will only post mostly correct answers to avoid embarrassment. The winner will be treated to a free lunch.
There could be two winners. If the first correct answer isn't from an undergraduate student then I'll select a second winner from those undergraduates who post the correct answer. You will need to identify yourself as an undergraduate in order to win. (Put "undergraduate" at the bottom of your comment.)
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It's really hard to maintain one's reputation as a curmudgeon. John Wilkins is having a particularly tough time these days since most of his poss are quite reasonable and rational. I even agree with him on most days.
In an effort to correct this problem, John has decided to defend evolutionary psychology [Eww, I stepped in some evolutionary psychology and other crap]. I posted a comment explaining why he was wrong.
Those of you who are fans of this crap discipline might want to jump on over to Evolving Thoughts and help him out.
He needs you.
WÖRTERLISTEN aus den Registern von Publikationen griechischer und lateinischer dokumentarischer Papyri und Ostraka:O.Did.
O.Petr. Mus.
O.Trim.
P.Aktenbuch
P.Bagnall
P.Herakl. Bank
P.Lond. Herm.
P.Oxy. LXXVI
P.Oxy. LXXVII
P.Petra IV
P.Pintaudi
P.Scholl
SB XXVII
T.Vindol. IV
One of the highlights of Eschaton 2012 was taking PZ Myers to the Elgin Street Grill for poutine. He had the plain, ordinary version diluted with a chicken burger. I had the chili poutine.
Other highlights included his two talks. The one on Saturday morning was about the sorry state of science education in the United States. That was depressing.
PZ's talk on Saturday evening was at the Canadian Museum of Natural History, just around the corner from the hotel. There were about 200 people in the audience. He tackled a very difficult topic, the role of chance in evolution. Naturally he covered random genetic drift but most of his talk was about coalescent theory because he wanted to explain some recent results from the sequence of the gorilla genome (Scally et al. 2012).
The authors of that paper report that, "In 30% of the genome, gorilla is closer to human or chimpanzee than the latter are to each other." PZ explained why this is exactly the result you would expect. (See his blog post at: A tiny bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.)
He also pointed out that the Intelligent Design Creationists got all excited about this result, thinking that it overthrows the theory of evolution and proves the existence of God. (I exaggerate slightly, but you get the point!) What this means if that the IDiots really don't understand evolution.
While we don't expect everyone to see immediately why 30% of our genes could be more similar to gorilla genes than to chimp genes, we do expect those who criticize evolution to have a better understanding. Instead, what we see is that those "experts" who post at Evolution News & Views (sic) don't even have an introductory college level understanding of evolution. Their ignorance of evolution produces some remarkably stupid posts on that blog—the website of the Discovery Institute.
I made a similar point in my talk except that I focused on the IDiot's lack of knowledge of mutation [see Breaking News: IDiots Don't Understand Genomes or Biology].
PZ took on a challenging task but he succeeded better than I could have imagined. While the audience didn't follow all of the explanation, they could see that it was based on solid evidence and theory. Many of them learned for the first time about chance in evolution and that's a plus, in my opinion.
Now let's work on the IDiots.
Scally, A, Dutheil, J.Y., Hillier, L.W., Jordan, G.E. et al. (2012) Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence. Nature 483:169-175. [PubMed]
INHALTAbascal, J. M. – García Bueno, C., Inscripciones de Agudo (Baetica, conventus Cordubensis) y Alhambra (Hispania citerior, conventus Carthaginiensis) 293
Aliquot, J. – Badawi, M., Trois poids romains de Gabala (Syrie) 202
Andorlini, I., Lavori per un ualetudinarium a Vindolanda. Nota a T.Vindol. II 155,6 271
Antonopoulos, A. P., The Metre of the Parodos of Sophocles’ Ichneutai 51
Antonopoulos, A. P., Marginal Variants on the Papyrus of Sophocles’ Ichneutai (P.Oxy. IX 1174) and Their Attribution 55
Bader, N. – Habash, M., A Greek Epitaph from Jordan 235 Bertolazzi, R., From the CIL Archives: A New Statue Base of Julia Domna from Mustis (Tunisia) 304
Bounegru, G. V. – Németh, G., Cursing the nomen 238
Cromwell, J., Coptic Texts in the Archive of Flavius Atias 280
Davenport, C., The Governors of Achaia under Diocletian and Constantine 225
Debiasi, A., POxy XXX 2513: Ifigenia nei Korinthiaká di Eumelo 31
Demetriou, D., Foreign Judges in Late Classical Thrace 193
De Vita, R., Un epigramma greco di età ellenistica attribuito a Puteoli 73
Eck, W., Tod in Raphia. Kulturtransfer aus Pannonien nach Syria Palestina 117
Feraudi-Gruénais, F., Das singuläre Gentilnomen Splattia. Bemerkungen zu AE 1976, 188 = AE 1978, 282 aus Vasto/Histonium 301
Finglass, P. J., Stesichorus and the Leaping Lot 10 – Demophon in Egypt 37
Fressura, M., Frammento di iscrizione latina dalla Tuscia 299
García-Dils de la Vega, S. – de la Hoz Montoya, J., Dos nuevas inscripciones de colonia Augusta Firma Astigi (Écija – Sevilla): Una tabella defixionis y un pavimento musivo de temática circense 243
Gatier, P.-L., Des péliganes à Suse 205
Gonzales, M., The Shrine of Asprachoma near Mycenae and its Dedications from the Persian Wars 131
Gonzales, M., Lost Dedications Commemorating Rhodian Victory over Antiochus III 172
Haslam, M. W., New Readings at Iliad 4.511 and 512? 1 – Ap.Rhod.Argon.4.430 116
Heil, M., Agrippina und Kos. Eine Inschrift und ihre Geschichte 183
Jones, B. C., A New Coptic Fragment of 2 Samuel 10:13–14, 17–18: McGill MS NO Coptic 2 126
Jones, C. P., Mithradates II of Commagene: A Note 199
Kalliontzis, Y. – Papazarkadas, N., Tritopatreis in Boeotia 165 Kantor, G., SEG LV 1452, ll. 32–34, and the Crime of plagium in the Late Republic 219
Korenjak, M., Das Grabmal des Antipatros von Askalon 66 Lanérès, N., Les Aiiatai spartiates, quelques remarques (SEG 50, 406) 156
Luppe, W., Zum Schluss des neuen Ἐπιτρέποντες-Fragments 102
Manieri, A., I Soteria anfizionici a Delfi: concorso o spettacolo musicale? 139
McLaughlin, J. J., P. Mich. inv. 4349: Fragment of a Letter Mentioning a Church and an Apostle 274
Méndez Dosuna, J., La clause finale de l’accord entre les Anaitiens et les Métapiens (IvO 10 = IÉD 14, l. 5–7) 147
Mirończuk, A., P. Oxy. III 540 – Homer B 672–684 4 – Two Unpublished Homeric Papyri at Duke University 7
Montana, F., Il commentario all’Iliade P.Oxy. LXXVI 5095 e gli scholia exegetica 11
Renberg, G. H., The Athenodoros Dipinto Reconsidered (I.Deir el-Bahari 208) 103
Salem, N., Statement of Witnessing to a Deed of Gift Written in Black and Red Ink on Limestone 289
Sansone, D., Euripides, Cretans frag. 472e.16–26 Kannicht 58
Summa, D., Ein neuer Kitharöde aus Kos (IG XII 4, 2, 1166) 175
Torallas Tovar, S. – Worp, K. A., New Wooden Labels from Various Collections 257
Vitale, M., Archonten, Hellenarchen und königliche Statthalter im Regnum Bosporanum (Tanais) 211
Wilson, P., The Decree of Teleas from the Theatre of Thorikos, Revisited 159
Worp, K. A. – Torallas Tovar, S., New Wooden Labels from Various Collections 257
VALENTINA GARULLI, Byblos lainee. Epigrafia, letteratura, epitafio (Eikasmos. Studi, 20), Bologna (Pàtron) 2012, pp. 466, ISBN 978-88-555-3207-5, euro 43,00.Materia: Lingua e letteratura classica EIKASMOS Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica. Studi n. 20 Pàtron editore
Sommario: Introduzione: per una riflessione sulla storia dell’epigramma greco i generi letterari greci l’epigramma come genere la storia. l’epigramma come testo scritto la ricezione l’epigramma ellenistico anonimato ed authorship la terminologia antica l’età ellenistica nella storia dell’epigramma alcune proposte di interpretazione l’epigramma sepolcrale greco: epigrafia e letteratura avvertenza Casi di doppia trasmissione: premessa doppia trasmissione coincidenza strutturale coincidenza puntuale note di sintesi Aspetti letterari degli epitafi epigrafici greci: premessa Reminiscenze letterarie allusioni - allusioni? coincidenze verbali citazioni note di sintesi Conclusioni- abbreviazioni bibliografiche Indici e tavole: indice degli autori antichi e dei passi discussi - indice dei nomi e delle cose notevoli - indice degli incipit epigrammatici tavole di concordanze epigrafiche.
Presentazione: Sin dal titolo, che riprende una suggestiva espressione usata in un’iscrizione greca in versi (“libro di pietra”), il volume si inserisce in un filone di studi che ha visto fiorire negli ultimi decenni un rinnovato interesse scientifico: si tratta dello studio dei carmi epigrafici, in quanto corpus che necessita di una collocazione nel panorama della poesia greca. In particolare, l’approfondimento e l’ampliamento della riflessione sull’epigramma hanno creato le condizioni per una valutazione del genere in tutte le sue articolazioni, sia letterarie che epigrafiche. Ad un quadro critico introduttivo su risultati, problemi ed obiettivi che interessano lo studio dell’epigramma sepolcrale greco e che costituisce l’oggetto del capitolo 1, segue nei capitoli 2 e 3 l’esame analitico di un’ampia selezione di casi, raccolti in quanto utili ad illustrare alcune delle prospettive secondo cui gli anonimi autori di epitafi epigrafici guardano alla poesia conservata dalla tradizione letteraria, e a portare in luce le linee che congiungono in un disegno unitario gli epigrammi incisi sulla pietra e quelli affidati alla tradizione manoscritta. Tali esempi sono raccolti in due gruppi principali: il capitolo 2 esamina e propone una classificazione tipologica di casi di doppia trasmissione, ovvero di epitafi in tutto o in parte conservati sia su pietra che per via letteraria. Il capitolo 3 propone invece una ricca esemplificazione di carmi epigrafici che si pongono in relazione intertestuale di varia natura con prodotti della ‘nobile’ tradizione letteraria. Gli epigrammi studiati, di varia epoca e provenienza, sono accomunati dai fenomeni descritti, che permettono di seguire le dinamiche della relazione che intercorre tra la fulgida ‘letteratura’ e l’oscura poesia su pietra.
ISBN 9788855532075
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pag. 468
anno 2012
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Comunicazioni dell'Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli" 10. I geroglifici egiziani nelle testimonianze degli autori classici. Tesi di laurea di Sergio Bosticco (a.a. 1946/1947) Firenze, Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli" 2012, XVIII + 72 pp., euro 20 ISBN 9788887829501 distribuzione: Casalini Libri, via Benedetto da Maiano 3, I-50014 Fiesole (FI) e-mail: gen@casalini.it fax +39 0555018201
