Why are babies born young? This sounds like an odd question. People would say "of course babies are born young". However, this goes to the core of the question of human (or animal) development. Why is it that as time passes people develop initially through puberty and then for women through menopause and more generally getting diseases such as sarcopenia, osteoporosis, diabetes and cancer, but most of the time babies start showing no signs of this. Lots of research into this has happened over the years and now I think it is clear why this is. It raises some interesting questions. Biological youth is about how well a cell functions. Cells that are old in a biological sense don't work that well. One of the ways in which cells stop working is they fail to produce the full range of proteins. Generally the proteins that are produced from longer genes stop being produced. The reason for this relates to how the Genes work (the Genome). Because the genome is not gettin
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No-one likes europop anymore other than the silly buggers who vote to select the UK entry.
No-one else - not even the Scandis - tried europop this year.
I was fully expecting nul points when Ireland and Malta saved the day. Good for them! (and tactical voting) Perhaps when the UK has a decent entry, we'll get a few points.
I would not have been surprised if they had ended up with zilch.
Goodness knows what they have ben putting in the water in Malta!
You try and compete in industry.
Our products are like our Euro pop entry...of better quality.
The eastern block products are tacky and of lower quality.
Yet we buy their products ...because they are cheap.
I would say a decent analogy all round.