A couple of things

A couple of things to think about from this article.

#1 LeBron graduated from high school in the United States of America and cannot pronounce words in a book meant for small children.

#2 He was reading a Dr. Seuss book to !!!!!6th GRADERS!!!!!!

#3 In sixth grade were we still making art projects out of pipe cleaners, construction paper, and ribbon? At Wanamaker Elementary kids were more likely to sniff the glue than use it to make a crown for a 21-year old millionaire.

The second one is this other guy's blog.

"Two of the funnier paragraphs I've read in a serious review article:

Genes that affect learning are also involved in the response of flies and mammals to drugs of human abuse (Berke & Hyman 2000). The first findings on this in flies came from work with the inebriometer (Cohan & Hoffman 1986, Weber 1988, Moore et al 1998). In this device flies on precarious, slanted perches inside a glass cylinder are exposed to ethanol vapor in an air current. As the alcohol they breathe increases, they (understandably) turn about, stagger, fall off their perches, and finally tumble down through the inebriometer tube into a fraction collector. Wild-type flies "elute" from the column with a peak at about 20 minutes. Various sensitive or resistant mutants elute at different peak times. This is drug behavior reduced to the methods of conventional chemistry.

The idea of drunk flies falling off an "inebriometer" and being called an eluent makes me laugh. That and the fact that they named the first ethanol hyper-sensitive mutant cheapdate.

Then a couple paragraphs later there is this analogy/pun that I'm really unsure about the intentionality on.

Cocaine is another drug of human abuse. Volatilized cocaine, administered to flies, induces several odd behaviors (McClung & Hirsh 1998, Bainton et al 2000). The easiest such behavior to measure is this: Following mechanical agitation that shakes flies to the bottom of a tube, normal flies race to the top of the tube—negative geotaxis. Cocaine decreases this upward mobility in a quantifiable, dose-dependent manner (Bainton et al 2000).

I dunno. Thought it was a strangely appropriate place to use that phrase."

Enjoy folks.