Fruit
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Say, if you bite this moldy
fruit
and your mouth waters, nobody would say to you, "Well, you just don't want to admit how much you like it."
So we went around to the butcher, we went around to the baker, there was no candlestick maker, there was an egg place and there was some chocolate, there was coffee, there was fruit, but we went around and said, "Hey, we're doing this awareness-raising event.
They also feed on fruit, and they disperse the seeds of these fruits.
Now several people at this conference have already suggested that
fruit
flies could serve neuroscience because they're a simple model of brain function.
We'll calculate the Trump number for the
fruit
fly.
Now, how many people here think the Trump number is higher for the
fruit
fly? (Applause) It's a very smart, smart audience.
So I want you to look at the payload at the tail of the
fruit
fly.
So at least you'll admit that if
fruit
flies are not as clever as mice, they're at least as clever as pigeons.
It has wings, it has eyes, it has antennae, its legs, complicated life history, it's a parasite, it has to fly around and find caterpillars to parasatize, but not only is its brain the size of a salt grain, which is comparable for a
fruit
fly, it is the size of a salt grain.
So me and my group, L.A. Green Grounds, we got together and we started planting my food forest,
fruit
trees, you know, the whole nine, vegetables.
And raise your hand if you think that basic research on
fruit
flies has anything to do with understanding mental illness in humans.
Now to begin to overcome our ignorance of the role of brain chemistry in brain circuitry, it's helpful to work on what we biologists call "model organisms," animals like
fruit
flies and laboratory mice, in which we can apply powerful genetic techniques to molecularly identify and pinpoint specific classes of neurons, as you heard about in Allan Jones's talk this morning.
However, it's a little difficult to do that in
fruit
flies.
So we built a device, which we call a puff-o-mat, in which we could deliver little brief air puffs to
fruit
flies in these plastic tubes in our laboratory bench and blow them away.
So we decided to use our puff-o-mat and our automated tracking software to screen through hundreds of lines of mutant
fruit
flies to see if we could find any that showed abnormal responses to the air puffs.
And this is one of the great things about
fruit
flies.
So slowly I began to realize that what started out as a rather playful attempt to try to annoy
fruit
flies might actually have some relevance to a human psychiatric disorder.
The stagnationist view is that ideas get used up, like low-hanging fruit, but the reality is that each innovation creates building blocks for even more innovations.
And I look at a beautiful bowl of fruit, and I look at a dress that I sewed for friends of mine.
The moment they eat the aptly named
fruit
of knowledge, that's when they discover themselves.
The eye of a
fruit
fly.
When there's one piece of fruit, there's likely to be another piece of
fruit
nearby, and the ants that specialize on clustered resources use interactions for recruitment.
Fruit
of the tree of such knowledge To smack (thin air) meaning kiss or hit.
I think the challenge is to connect the last billion people, and connecting the last billion is very different than connecting the next billion, and the reason it's different is that the next billion are sort of low-hanging fruit, but the last billion are rural.
I've worked with plants, bacteria, cuttlefish,
fruit
flies.
We plutocrats know, even if we don't like to admit it in public, that if we had been born somewhere else, not here in the United States, we might very well be just some dude standing barefoot by the side of a dirt road selling
fruit.
And we should never forget that even the best of us in the worst of circumstances are barefoot by the side of a dirt road selling
fruit.
Walking to the
fruit
seller's or the tailor's, I got stares so sharp that they sliced away bits of me piece by piece."
And we wanted to make it possible to study the brain not as a cellular smoothie but as a cellular
fruit
salad, in which one could generate data about and learn from each individual piece of
fruit.
Peseshet probes the growth and finds it cool to the touch and hard like an unripe hemat
fruit.
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