Saturday, June 27, 2009

The reason I should not type things late at night

Um, so. yes. I feel like a copycat, but I'm bored, so why not? I really have nothing say, but that will never stop me. INSERT EVIL LAUGHTER HERE.
Blogs are supposed to be about what you're doing/thinking about at any given time, right? SO: the bones in the arm/hand!
They're analagous to those in bat wings, so I had a random lesson on them in the car today! From the person who was driving the car. In this order: humerus, radius, carpals, metacarpals, proximal phalanges, distal phalanges. Actually, humans have another set of phalanges on all fingers except the thumb, but most bats don't so... (The first elipsis! YAY!)
Um, so. Yes. Very, very excited about working in my mom's lab, I"m going to be doing stuff on a project they have going right now about these tiny hairs on bat wings, which appear to be used to sense the differences in pressure on either side of the wing. It's ridiculously cool, and I got to read several papers about and one about phylogenetic trees on friday, which was a great deal of fun.
That's really all that I don't have to say.

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