I have never had the pleasure of renga renga in my garden before. The ones here have produced stunning flower heads and are making a great show both outside and in. I rate them right up there with the delightful hydrangea and agapanthus - high praise, indeed!
Wow! Petone must be a dangerous place if butterflies are larger than ducks. I wonder what the Bumble-bees are like.
ReplyDeleteYes, so many things are bigger and better here - it must be quite overwhelming for those living well beyond the cultured limits of Greater Wellington!
ReplyDeleteI 'Googled' your phrase 'cultural limits' and came up with the following:
ReplyDeleteDr. Leonard Hayflick first became suspicious of Carrel’s theory while working in a lab at the Wistar Institute. Hayflick was preparing normal human cells to be exposed to extracts of cancer cells when he noticed the normal cells had stopped proliferating. At first he thought that he had made a technical error in preparing the experiment, but later he began to think that the cell division processes had a counting mechanism. Working with Paul Morehead, he designed an experiment that showed the truth about normal cell division.
The experiment proceeded as follows. Hayflick and Morehead mixed equal numbers of normal human male fibroblasts that had divided many times (cells at the 40th population doubling) with female fibroblasts that had divided only a few times (cells at the 10th population doubling). Unmixed cell populations were kept as controls. When the male ‘control’ culture stopped dividing, the mixed culture was examined and only female cells were found. This showed that the old cells ‘remembered’ they were old, even when surrounded by young cells, and that technical errors or contaminating viruses were unlikely explanations as to why only the male cell component had died.[1][6] The cells had stopped dividing and become senescent based purely upon how many times the cell had divided.
These results disproved the immortality theory of Carrel and established the Hayflick Limit as accredited biological theory which, unlike the experiment of Carrel, has been reproduced by other scientists.
Sounds familiar.
Fascinating .... though my phrase was actually 'cultured limits'. I thought you were wearing your Wine Guy head today - I like to think of you as our own wee Worzel Gummidge!
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