The most violent passions of humanity.

Now, David and Hidehiko and Ketaki gave a very compelling story about the similarities between fruit flies and humans, and there are many similarities, and so you might think that if humans are similar to fruit flies, the favorite behavior of a fruit fly might be this, for example but in my talk, I don't want to emphasize on the similarities between humans and fruit flies, but rather the differences, and focus on the behaviors that I think fruit flies excel at doing.

The engine of the fly is absolutely fascinating.

The mad and exuberant Moscow...

There'll be Injuns around that herd thicker than flies.

Mark Applebaum The mad scientist of music

And development just basically going berserk, for a double figure growth index, basically.

Here's a fly and a large infrared view of the fly in the flight simulator, and this is a game the flies love to play.

Keith Mallory, the human fly.

This fly has a mighty sting, friend.

And at that time, it became set in stone the aquatic theory should be dumped with the UFOs and the yetis, as part of the lunatic fringe of science.

Are you spider or fly?

Now several people at this conference have already suggested that fruit flies could serve neuroscience because they're a simple model of brain function.

Stephen Colbert is a pretty crazy guy.

And that is the case in flies.

And he could shoot it from two rooms away and not damage what it was on because he knew how to pump it just enough to kill the fly and not damage what it landed on.

And what they're doing is very interesting they're digging through the cow patties for the maggots, the grubs, the larvae of flies.

It's a human and technological revolution.

There was a fly.

She cut the heads off of her flies.

This is a Dionaea, a Venus fly trap hunting snails sorry for the snail.

Abuse of steroids, binging and so on.

For you nerds, here's a little behind the scenes.

A small mutation can take a two wing fly and make it a four wing fly.

You're a melomaniac. Not for music, but for melodrama!

Suddenly, we humans, a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature, have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power. We, now, wield the paintbrush.

And these are flytrap anemones.

So flies love this.

And blowflies just can't help themselves.

Dinner's in there

In the ointment you're the fly

Not a fly.

Now, how many people here think the Trump number is higher for the fruit fly?

They trained the escape reflex that makes the fly jump into the air and fly away whenever you move your hand in position.

Michael Dickinson How a fly flies

Human dignity should always prevail over the interests of science.

They're a great model for flies.

Whenever a fly reaches the midpoint of the chamber where the two odor streams meet, it has to make a decision.

There's a fly in the noodle broth.

Mosquito and fly, they are big

We'll calculate the Trump number for the fruit fly.

What's clever is the way the fly flaps it, which of course ultimately is controlled by the nervous system, and this is what enables flies to perform these remarkable aerial maneuvers.

They have no interest in crazy ideas like engineering the whole planet.

He had heard about the head experimenter and was prepared to face the mad scientist or Dr. Frankenstein.

The man's mad, eh?