Um... eww?
Dear god no: Your gut has taste receptors
Researchers in the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified taste receptors in the human intestines. The taste receptor T1R3 and the taste G protein gustducin are critical to sweet taste in the tongue. Research now shows these two sweet-sensing proteins are also expressed in specialized taste cells of the gut where they sense glucose within the intestine.
“We now know that the receptors that sense sugar and artificial sweeteners are not limited to the tongue. Our work is an important advance for the new field of gastrointestinal chemosensation - how the cells of the gut detect and respond to sugars and other nutrients,” said lead author, Robert F. Margolskee, MD, PhD Professor of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. “Cells of the gut taste glucose through the same mechanisms used by taste cells of the tongue. The gut taste cells regulate secretion of insulin and hormones that regulate appetite. Our work sheds new light on how we regulate sugar uptake from our diets and regulate blood sugar levels.”
I didn't know there were unicorns in the bible.
You got your green alligators,
And long-necked geese
Humpty-backed camels
And some chimpanzees
Cats and rats and elephants
But sure as you're born
Don't you forget My
Unicorn.
didn't know there were unicorns in the bible.
Yep. In the King James version, anyway. This gives the source of the King James unicorns: [link]
eta: stuff from the KJV:
Job 39:9-12: Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
Psalms 29:6: He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
Numbers 24:8: ...he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn
Well, those all sound like *metaphors* to me. But I know those guys must be literalists.
Ha-HA! I did my little bit of stuff and sent it out, AND was seen being the last person in my department here by a Higher Up. That kind of makes up for the other day when the Big Boss sent an email saying that she had been looking for me and my boss both around quarter of six, and neither of us was here.
God, I hate office politics. Why do I feel bad for getting my stuff done and going home?
Why do I feel bad for getting my stuff done and going home?
Yeah, I've been staying late out of guilt for dentist appts and going to my brother's wedding, even though that time was totally mine to take.
even though that time was totally mine to take
Wrod! I have to leave early today for the dentist, and even though I have like 80 hours of comp time AND could use sick time for it too, I feel guilty. My boss is totally cool about stuff like this and he never says anything but I feel like I'm sneaking out or something. Plus I'll probably run into our most obnoxious operations manager who will probably say "leaving early again? Man I wish I was in sales"
Wow, my company is totally cool with hours and time off. As long as you put in your 40 hours throughout the week and get your work done, and make sure there's someone from the department in the office available for questions 9-5ish, it's up to you when you come in and/or leave.
In fact, out of the four of us in my department, one is on maternity leave but works from either the city office or home when she's not on leave, my boss works out of the city office all but a few days a month, I work from here exclusively (no working from home or the other office), and the fourth just arranged with the boss to work from home three days a week due to construction making her commute a real PITA for the time being.
Is "unicorn" in the KJV a mistranslation of another word? I hope?
