The Doktah’s thesis was on red blood cells and nuclei. This has always amused me, because red blood cells are the only eukaryotic cells without nuclei. (Yes, yes, The Doktah, chicken red blood cells have nuclei. We know.) At any rate, she once found a paper on the bending modulus of the red blood cell membrane in various warm- and cold-blooded animals. They had a table listing the modulus for snakes, mice, rats, and three kinds of turtles.
That always seemed excessive to us. Three kinds of turtles? Were they really that different? We imagined the following scenario:
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Quick! I need to know the bending modulus of the red blood cell of a turtle!
GRAD STUDENT: (flipping frantically through the paper) What kind? WHAT KIND OF TURTLE?
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Wow, your Doktah’s thesis was certainly an interesting project. I wonder what would be the outcome for research like that. We all know that MA thesis and phd dissertation writing can really be hard, and having a difficult topic can make things a bit harder. But, it shouldn’t be a reason to quit out of the journey.
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