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PostPosted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:15 pm    Post subject: A polymorphism of the ability to smell urinary metabolites o Reply with quote

You can't make up stuff like this:

NCBI ROFL: Asparagus, urine, farts, and Benjamin Franklin (Part I)

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The urinary excretion of (an) odorous substance(s) after eating asparagus is not an inborn error of metabolism as has been supposed. The detection of the odour constitutes a specific smell hypersensitivity. Those who could smell the odour in their own urine could all smell it in the urine of anyone who had eaten asparagus, whether or not that person was able to smell it himself. Thresholds for detecting the odour appeared to be bimodal in distribution, with 10% of 307 subjects tested able to smell it at high dilutions, suggesting a genetically determined specific hypersensitivity.



It has actually been cited 11 times too.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As I can see it... many scientists has TOO MUCH spare time on their hands Razz
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When are they BOINCing this project?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stench@Home?

I think I'll give that one a miss. Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 12:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You know the majority of the Knights would be all over that project. Like stink on ... asparagus as Sir Dente mentioned.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Al Dente wrote:
Stench@Home?

I think I'll give that one a miss. Laughing


I thought Sir Fart was running that one...

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, I think he's doing Incinerator@Home. His nostrils were destroyed many moons* ago.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Al Dente wrote:
Stench@Home?

I think I'll give that one a miss. Laughing


Sir Farty is hosting it.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Sir Farty is hosting it.

And that's why we should ask ourselves, should we risk our computers crunching for this project to support a fellow team member or should we skip it?

I've heard this project's gonna be extremely CPU/Memory/Cuda/Smell intensive and each WU will last 20 years Razz
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