<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460559" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0060 Melanin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Melanin is a polymer, most often of<br>two molecules with very long names, <br>indolequinone, and dihydroxyindole carboxylic acid, <br>which are in all of us, affecting<br>skin and hair color and even<br>present in the eye and its color<br>and the brain too; the word<br>comes from the Greek for ‘black’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is believed that all of us whose ancestors<br>lived near the Equator, and<br>that could be all of us yeah<br>originally had black skins, <br>inherited suntan if you like<br>but that those who moved up north<br>got whiter – which helped<br>to absorb Vitamin D from the sparse sunlight and<br>stave off rickets and such.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All pretty cool so far, right? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">My clever schooldays friend<br>later researched melanin<br>finding in the course of his studies<br>that a rubber factory in South America somewhere, <br>tires I think not condoms<br>used a compound that accidentally turned<br>black-skinned workers into white<br>which caused some social consternation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, are you wondering where this poem<br>Is going? Or is it a bit too obvious? <br>Well, I’ll stop there, and<br>you can follow it up yourself.<br>No point in spelling it out<br>In black and white.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460559" data-title="0060 Melanin de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Melanin is a polymer, most often of two molecules with very long names, indolequinone, and dihydroxyindole carboxylic acid, which are in all of us, affecting skin and hair color and even present in the eye and its color and the brain too; the wo..."></div> </div> </div>

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