Chapter 57: Nobel Prize Nominations?

Wake up the next morning.

I slept for a full nine hours.

Experts say that eight hours of sleep a day is enough. Han Zhou calculated that he had to sleep for nine hours before he felt satisfied.

There are also people who sleep for six or seven hours and are energetic. Vary.

Brush your teeth and wash up.

Come to the fish tank.

Saw the octopus wake up and crawl at the bottom of the tank.

Han Zhou checked the information, and the species of octopus is coconut octopus, that is, striped clam.

Because the body surface is rough, densely packed with many small particles, the carcass side, especially the base of the side wrist, has some obvious longitudinal stripes, hence the name.

This is an endemic Chinese octopus with an oval carcass. Living underwater, the adaptation water temperature can not be lower than 7 °C, the specific gravity of seawater is 1.021 is the most suitable, and the environment with low salinity will die. The bottom of the sea area is preferably a gravel zone, which is widely distributed in the South China Sea.

The striped clam is also called the coconut octopus because of its strange brain circuitry.

Good at using coconut shells to disguise yourself as a coconut......

In 2009, scientists conducted scientific expeditions in North Sulawesi and Bali, Indonesia, and found that the striped frog can pick up coconut shells thrown into the sea by humans, get into them themselves, and then jam the coconut shells to disguise themselves as a coconut.

Those natural predators who are not vegetarians are naturally not interested in coconuts, which greatly improves the survival rate of striped moths.

So although the striped mussel is an octopus on the surface, it has a heart that wants to be a coconut.

Even when they don't have coconut shells, they can wrap their wrists and feet around their heads, and then their bodies bulge and disguise themselves as coconuts...... Very persistent pretending to be a coconut......

And use two legs to run on the bottom of the sea......

It was also the first mollusk discovered that could run on two legs...... Very happy......

However, using coconut shells to disguise oneself is essentially an act of using tools, which is something that only happens in a few animals.

For example, chimpanzees eat ants with twigs, and dolphins use angry inflated pufferfish to play with balls (mistakenly), which is a high-IQ behavior.

The striped clams also cherish the coconut shells they pick up very much, even if they move far away, they will never abandon the coconut shells. They will try very hard to hold the coconut shell under their armpits, and stumble to take the precious coconut shell away.

After all, there are not so many coconut shells in nature, and they need to be cherished. In fact, the reason why a large number of striped clams learned to use coconut shells is essentially because of the increase in human activities, which made a large number of leftover coconut shells thrown into the sea, which revolutionized the popularization of this tool. The original striped moth may have used a weaker tool such as a shell that is not as useful as a coconut shell. It is human activity that alters the trajectory of their evolution.

If there weren't so many coconut shells on the bottom of the sea, instead of mugs or something, maybe the striped clams would have used it, and at that time, they might have been nicknamed "cup octopus".

After checking the information, Han Zhou found that the little octopus did not have a place to stay, just like a coconut shell.

After thinking about it, Han Zhou brought a goblet, a very light small wine glass.

Put it in the water.

Soon, perhaps sensing Han Zhou's kindness.

The little octopus swam over and stuffed its body in.

Like a hermit crab that has found a snail shell, he cocks his wine glass high.

It seems to be a happy look.

Han Zhou observed the other aquarists in the fish tank, and did not find that there was one that showed the same strange behavior as the baby octopus.

......

After eating breakfast, I received a message with the APP.

It's not a treasure map app, and the time is not enough for a month.

It is Koto Club APP.

Wang Baochuan sent a message to Han Zhou.

Wang Baochuan: Xiao Han, I have two good news for you.

Happy little jumping frog: Elder Wang, you say [happy]

Wang Baochuan: First of all, the founder of the Jiangdong Association has already held a meeting and decided that you will be the next full member. After completing the procedure, in two months, he will be officially promoted. Full membership has a lot of very valuable permissions, and you'll know about it later, so I won't reveal it yet.

Wang Baochuan: You deserve it. Your "Treasure Pixels" has brought us a lot of high-level reputation and support to a few of our old guys. These involve extremely high-level games, which you don't understand yet. All I can say is that because of you, the above is willing to trust me, and this is the greatest help.

Wang Baochuan: Many times when Chinese do things, it is nothing more than the word "letter". With trust, a lot can be done. I am a patriot, although I have a lot of money and a lot of business, but because of my family's identity, I have always stayed away from the inner circle. And now, I can finally do something beneficial to the country and the people in the later years of my life. This is an important relief for me.

Happy Little Jumping Frog: Elder Wang, this is also the result of your efforts, upright.

Wang Baochuan: Anyway, thank you very much. Another thing, guess what?

Happy Little Jumping Frog: ......

Wang Baochuan: Hahaha. Let me be blunt, at home and abroad, several qualified bigwigs have nominated you as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. You have also been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Happy Little Jumping Frog: Physiology or Medicine, is it the one that Mr. Tu Youyou won?

Wang Baochuan: Yes.

Mr. Tu Youyou was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her creative development of new antimalarial drugs, artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin.

In the 60s of the last century, the malaria parasite has developed resistance to quinine, which seriously affects the therapeutic effect. Artemisinin and its derivatives can quickly destroy the malaria parasite in the human body and have a good therapeutic effect on falciparum malaria.

Inspired by the Chinese classic "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription", Tu Youyou successfully used modern technology to extract artemisinin, which is known as the discovery of "saving 200 million people".

It is recorded in the "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" that "one grip of Artemisia annua, two liters of water, and the juice can be taken to the fullest" can cure cold and heat malaria.

But in fact, the so-called "Artemisia annua" in this is not the "Artemisia annua" as it is called now.

It's Artemisia annua.

The various names of animals and plants in ancient Chinese classics are very confusing, and there are often the same names and foreign objects with the same name.

It is not easy for Mr. Tu Youyou to distinguish between the past and the present, study realistically, and finally extract artemisinin.

Because of this discovery, in 2015, Mr. Tu Youyou shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Irish medical scientist William Campbell and RB scientist Satoshi Omura.

Han Zhoudao: If I can really win this award, it will be really my honor.

Wang Baochuan said: With your achievements, you will definitely be able to get it. It's just that you don't necessarily win this time. Maybe a few years to wait.

Han Zhoudao: I understand. I'm still young. There are only 1-3 winners of each Nobel Prize every year, and there are many old-timers who have made great contributions who are waiting, and many people die before they can wait for the Nobel Prize, which is a pity.

Wang Baochuandao: Yes, after the previous black hole theory research won the award, many people regretted Hawking. He passed away before he won the award, and this regret is difficult to make up for anyway.