{"id":14114,"date":"2012-03-17T00:08:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T05:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14114"},"modified":"2012-03-16T20:34:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T01:34:24","slug":"happy-biologists-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/17\/happy-biologists-st-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy (Biologist&#8217;s) St. Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L6dzUOYTQtQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m resurrecting this nerdy drinking song from last year&#8230; As many of you perceptive viewers noticed there were a couple alcohol-induced scientific errors in my last version of this song (gold star, perceptive viewers!) &mdash; so I thought this St. Patrick&#8217;s day would be a perfect time to correct them.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics:<br \/>\nIn the year of our lord eighteen hundred and eleven<br \/>\nOn March the seventeenth day<br \/>\nI will raise up a beer and I&#8217;ll raise up a cheer<br \/>\nFor Saccharomyces cerevisiae<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to brewers yeast, that humblest of all beasts<br \/>\nProducing carbon gas reducing acetaldehyde<br \/>\nBut my friends that isn&#8217;t all &#8212; it makes ethyl alcohol<br \/>\nThat is what the yeast excretes and that&#8217;s what we imbibe<\/p>\n<p>Anaerobic isolation<br \/>\nAlcoholic fermentation<br \/>\nNADH oxidation<br \/>\nGive me a beer<\/p>\n<p>[CHORUS]<\/p>\n<p>My intestinal wall absorbs that ethanol<br \/>\nAnd soon it passes through my blood-brain barrier<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a girl in the next seat who I didn&#8217;t think that sweet<br \/>\nBut after a few drinks I want to marry her<br \/>\nI guess it&#8217;s not surprising, my dopamine is rising<br \/>\nAnd my glutamate receptors are all shot<br \/>\nI&#8217;d surely be bemoaning all the extra serotonin<br \/>\nBut my judgment is impaired and my confidence is not<\/p>\n<p>Allosteric modulation<br \/>\nNo Long Term Potentiation<br \/>\nHastens my inebriation<br \/>\nGive me a beer<\/p>\n<p>[CHORUS]<\/p>\n<p>When ethanol is in me, some shows up in my kidneys<br \/>\nAnd inhibits vasopressin by degrees<br \/>\nA decrease in aquaporins hinders water re-absorption<br \/>\nAnd pretty soon I really have to pee<br \/>\nWell my liver breaks it down so my body can rebound<br \/>\nBy my store of glycogen is soon depleted<br \/>\nAnd tomorrow when I&#8217;m sober I will also be hungover<br \/>\nCause I flushed electrolytes that my nerves and muscles needed<\/p>\n<p>Diuretic activation<br \/>\nUrination urination<br \/>\nUrination dehydration<br \/>\nGive me a beer<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/102203871326584624185\/posts\/Y5d2XV1g7KC\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Myrick<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m resurrecting this nerdy drinking song from last year&#8230; As many of you perceptive viewers noticed there were a couple alcohol-induced scientific errors in my last version of this song (gold star, perceptive viewers!) &mdash; so I thought this St. Patrick&#8217;s day would be a perfect time to correct them. 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