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not enough facepalms in the world
Jul. 26th, 2010 03:17 pmI've been reading Bing West's No True Glory, an account of the military forces in Anbar Province in 2004. Well, mostly Fallujah, but also Ramadi. It's taking me a long time, because there are moments when I want to throw the book against the wall, I'm so annoyed with West's pro-Bush, pro-Rumsfeld, pro-Wolfowitz bias. Oh, and? West is the biggest Mattis fanboy EVER, jsyk.
Anyway. The primary military units for much of the time in question were 82nd Airborne Division and a Marine Expeditionary Force (1st Marine Division, to be precise), abbreviated MEF throughout the book.
I just started reading a paper about a knock-in mutation, and the knock-in mouse was used to generate mouse embryonic fibroblasts for in vitro studies.
They are abbreviated MEFs.
Feeling mildly schizophrenic after reading a chapter of the book during my lunchbreak and then going back to the paper and its supplemental data. Imagining little cells in camo migrating across my field of vision, complete with GFP- and RFP-tagged tracers.
Anyway. The primary military units for much of the time in question were 82nd Airborne Division and a Marine Expeditionary Force (1st Marine Division, to be precise), abbreviated MEF throughout the book.
I just started reading a paper about a knock-in mutation, and the knock-in mouse was used to generate mouse embryonic fibroblasts for in vitro studies.
They are abbreviated MEFs.
Feeling mildly schizophrenic after reading a chapter of the book during my lunchbreak and then going back to the paper and its supplemental data. Imagining little cells in camo migrating across my field of vision, complete with GFP- and RFP-tagged tracers.
