- Oct 9, 1999
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Did you know that:
All living molecules are left handed.
But that we can flip these molecules to become right handed in the lab.
That Thalidomide, the drug that hideously deformed so many babies in the sixties, was originally totally benign but was flipped in the lab to right handedness.
That a guy changed his life and how people reacted to him by changing which side he parted his hair on. That this same guy noticed President Jimmy Carter was parting his hair on the "wrong" side, sent him a letter, and that six or so weeks later Carter changed his part side?
That Superman is always shown with his hair parted on the "right" side, but that Clark Kent is always shown with his hair parted on the "wrong" side . . . and that, in a clip showing Kent ripping off his clothes as he runs down the street and changed into S-Man, the part on his hair magically changes?
You do now. Listen up and learn, troop: Desperately Seeking Symmetry.
All living molecules are left handed.
But that we can flip these molecules to become right handed in the lab.
That Thalidomide, the drug that hideously deformed so many babies in the sixties, was originally totally benign but was flipped in the lab to right handedness.
That a guy changed his life and how people reacted to him by changing which side he parted his hair on. That this same guy noticed President Jimmy Carter was parting his hair on the "wrong" side, sent him a letter, and that six or so weeks later Carter changed his part side?
That Superman is always shown with his hair parted on the "right" side, but that Clark Kent is always shown with his hair parted on the "wrong" side . . . and that, in a clip showing Kent ripping off his clothes as he runs down the street and changed into S-Man, the part on his hair magically changes?
You do now. Listen up and learn, troop: Desperately Seeking Symmetry.