Someday there will be a practical application! Someday!

Actually, it had one VERY practical application–it got me published.

I assume most males automatically qualify for this badge by virtue of having the “let’s poke it and see what happens” gene.

Yes, I proved that Florida red-bellied turtles can both hear underwater and be trained to respond to morse code…. why do you ask?

I know how baby fur seals talk to their mommies.

Male, and some large Female, Oyster Toadfish make noise. There, I said it.

Young’s modulus of killer pythons.
The lollies, not the actuals ones. And done in such a way as to make me eligible for the “eaten experiment” badge too.

I was working in bioinformatics for 20 years.

Every bit of “science” I ever do has no conceivable use. Of course, to me science involves nothing more than seeing how big a fire I can make(and how quickly I can do it) or how fast I can demolish something with fire.

Well, there aren’t any drugs out there targeting G-quadruplex DNA yet, so I think I can apply for this one

I once left part of a container of leftover food in the fridge so long that I was unable to determine what kind of food it had begun its life as…does that count?

Most of my work has been in polyadenylation, hence no practical application