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>ambimanual
Sorry, too wishy-washy, too namby-pamby. We need an affirmative action kinda word, one that gives all those dextrochauvinists a taste of their own medicine. We have millennia of such prejudice to fight against (as an aside, the highest mark I ever received for a German essay was on this very subject).
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[Runs screaming from the room shouting chemistry! chemistry! argh! ]
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To relieve your fears of chemistry, let me point out that Dorothy L. Sayers, the queen of mystery writers, wrote a very fine novel (The Documents in the Case) in which the solution of the murder turned on the dextro- and laevo- forms of muscarine. Highly recommended, also since it's the only good epistolary novel other than The Moonstone.
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"To relieve your fears of chemistry, let me point out that Dorothy L. Sayers, the queen of mystery writers,
wrote a very fine novel (The Documents in the Case) "
Yes! I read that, and that may very well be where I first encountered the concept. It's a very good novel, and one of the most interesting things to me was that I read it in college, and again some 20 years later. By the time of the second reading my sympathies had completely realigned to different characters.
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Years ago I got all excited when I read an article saying that a "left-handed" sugar molecule had been created, and that they were going to try and produce enough of it to market. Supposedly it contained all the properties of "normal" (right-handed molecule) sugar, except--that the left-handedness would cause your body not to process it. So I thought people were going to be able to eat all the sweets they wanted to with no effects from the sugar. But I never heard anything more about it. Pity.
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>Sucrose is C12H22O11 and fructose and gluscose are both C6H12O6 and that doesn't quite add up but.
to paraphrase Alex, aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
(I think left-handed sugar causes left-handed diabetes..)
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"According to this site ... it was too expensive to make and they couldn't get the stock price high enough to make it worth while."
Well, considering the effort my grandparents put into changing my father from left-handed to right-handed and how warped he is, they may well be right.
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Remember;, any sugar that we can't metabolise, bacteria can. Thereby blows an ill wind.
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