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R. G. Edwards: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from R. G. Edwards, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• The first IVF baby was born in 1978, and doctors braced for backlash

  Louise Brown was the first human born after in vitro fertilisation, conceived in a lab dish by physiologist Robert Edwards and surgeon Patrick Steptoe after a decade of failed atte…

  — P. C. Steptoe and R. G. Edwards, Birth after the reimplantation of a human embryo

• Antarctica's largest year-round land animal is about the size of a grain of rice

  Belgica antarctica, a wingless midge just 2-6mm long, is the largest permanent terrestrial resident of Antarctica — nothing bigger lives there year-round. Its larvae survive losing…

  — J.S. Edwards; later work by David L. Denlinger, Richard E. Lee Jr., Physiological and metabolic aspects of cold hardiness in Belgica antarctica

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