Protein Researchers Win Nobel Prize In Chemistry

nucal writes "The 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Rod MacKinnon and Peter Agree for their work on proteins that form ion and water channels in cell membranes. In particular, solving the structure of potassium channels was a major achievement, since this was the first multispan transmembrane protein structure to be solved by X-ray crystallography. There is also structural information on aquaporins (water channels) as well."

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Re:WHOOSH

[Daniel Dvorkin]

That's right. If you're too afraid of big words to read the article (which does a pretty good job of explaining the discovery in layman's terms) just make a whooshing noise. Apparently you take a perverse pride in your inability to understand anything more complex than plugging in your Xbox.

No, it's not the post that pissed me off. It was the "Insightful" rating. Apparently, it's insightful to take pride in not understanding things. This is a particularly ironic attitude to find on Slashdot, since techies get this kind of irritating "I don't get it, and that's just fine with me!!!" reaction all the time when they're trying to explain simple computer principles to their aggressively tech-illiterate family and friends.