Don't put salt in your eyes. It'll close your cGMP gated channel, hyperpolarizing the rod membrane and send pain signals to your synaptic terminal. Don't put salt in your eyes.

Ok, I see now.

Duh.

Aww, the mystery is gone now.

You can almost (almost) understand how science can seem like witchcraft or bullhonkery to the fundamentalist closed mind.

The announcer sounds suspiciously like the narrator of the cruise missile explanation, "It knows where it is, by knowing where it isn't."

My band Five Prime GMP has a new single out. Search for it on myspace.

I suck with biology but it's amazing to me that all these chemical reactions happen in a fraction of a second.

Enzymes are amazing. I can never get over the fact that I am completely dependent on microscopic machines whose speed, precision and efficiency obliterate the best of human engineering.

It's amazing how a single photon can cause so many chemicals to just flip right out and do stuff.