In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.
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Hey, Lindbergh could have taken one of these with him in 1927!
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At the end they say "Do you want to feel sick? Go out and buy some gas now." Because of inflation (thank you LBJ, RMN, et al) those prices are more-or-less in line with what gasoline costs today, in spite of the high state and federal taxes on it. Today the AAA price is $2.19 per gallon; in Britain it is over five dollars.
Coke, bottled water and an espresso at Starbucks clock in at $3.84, $10.67 and $320 per gallon.
