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The first place you can look is in the (now read-only) Thursday Next Forum, where there is a thread titled "Ok, let me be the first to ask the Dodo question" which contains a number of hints on this puzzle.
I got past the dodo, but can't seem to get the next puzzle right it just sends me back to the dodo repeatedly. Do the blue asterisks mean the answer is wrong? Help!
Erm, sorry Lauren, I don't think any of us understood that either... Just keep trying options, although I seem to remember the first couple making sense.
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They don't make sense. They're totally inconsistent.
The first two are the obvious ones.
The second two are literary and kind of Nextian and not
consistent with the first two.
Lauren: The asterisks only mean you've made a choice for that answer.
Not indication of whether they're correct.
Oddly enough, I got them all on the first try, and they made perfect sense to me, so apparently I think in the appropriately warped manner for the puzzle.
(Which would be why I was the one who sent the explaination to dave.)
It does help if you look at what the pics are titled (holdinig your mouse over them until the name pops up should work, at least in IE), particularly on the third one.
Yesterday (28th Feb) was the 50th anniversary of the discovery
of DNA by Watson and Crick (and Rosalind Franklin who did the
experiments but died before the Nobel prize was awarded so
didn't get one as they aren't awarded posthumously).
And also because she was a woman whose photos of DNA they used in their research without
(a) telling her or
(b) crediting her. According to the newspapers, one of them has since defended himself by claiming she was ugly and rude and mad. (Possibly I exaggerate) But not by much.
The controversy kind of grew a long time after her death, mostly as she was adopted by feminists as an example of 'male science' trying to keep women out. And Rob's absolutely right - Nobels weren't, and quite possibly aren't, given posthumously (http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/oct/darklady/)
One essential fact about Watson and Crick - a large part of their time was spent across the road in a pub (The Eagle, I believe) thus offering hope for my academic career...
Post Edited (03-03-03 15:55)
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