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In remote region of Colombia, a small golden frog was discovered by a team of young scientists supported by the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP). Until now no name is given to this frog but it is identified as dart frog which is highly poisonous. Beautiful things are harmful.

Don’t chop down all the trees in your country, who knows you may just destroy habitat for another unknown golden animals.

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Recently equine flu outbreak spread in Australia and more than 700 horses are infected. This has heavily hit Australia’s horse racing industry and Australian government ban any horse movement until Friday.

This equine flu is very contagious to horses only but not human but it has the same effect as influenza on human. It is suspected that the flu may come from Japan.

(pic: http://www.goatstar.org/transitional-horse-fossils-2/)

Equine flu give horses the symptoms are high fevers, coughing, sneezing and lack of appetite. There are several viruses that can cause equine flu in Australia, which are Equine Herpesvirus, Equine Rhinovirus and Equine Adenovirus. Equine flu can be spread if the horses are not cared properly as the virus can be spread via droplets, nasal discharge and also the infected brushes and rugs.

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I confess, I watch TV and online before I sleep.

Nearly half of the respondents associated their lack of sleep with electronic media use before bedtime. Those reporting longer electronic media use were also more likely to report insufficient sleep.

But many lecturers are boring, you can’t deny that. I notice that even though some lecturers present in an attractive way, but their voices are just dull.

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For those study in Monash Clayton, there will be one talk for biological careers.

Venue: E7, Building 72

Time: Tuesday Aug 28, 6pm

Who:

• Charles Meredith, CEO Biosis Research
• Brett Lane, Chief Ecological Consultant BL&A
• David Birch, M.B.B.S., BSc. Hons, F.R.A.C.G.P.

What: A series of talks from people who completed their Bachelor of Science and then went on to get real jobs - because who really wants to stay in academia.

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Monkeys are not our ancestors. We don’t eat them doesn’t mean they’re human.

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Read this news from nature. Scientists from Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovo, Israel had discovered the protein that can erase long-term memories. Yadin Dudai and Reut Shema found that the polypeptide ZIP is useful in “zipping” memories.

They then looked to see what would happen if they injected the rat cortex with ZIP, a small protein Sacktor’s laboratory previously used to block spatial memories held in the hippocampus. ZIP silences an enzyme called PKM-zeta, which Sacktor thinks is key to perpetuating long-term memory.

This is exciting, but there are something else that concern me. Will this discovery be used in military acts or by terrorists? Will it be commercialize just for someone to forget their past becoming the next popular drugs? Maybe it will become the next important thing in the future spy movies like the Bourne series.

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This book written by Hal Hellman is a great book to read. Unlike other science books, it is not boring but entertaining to read and provide interesting history insights for the readers. The chapters I personally like are:

• Urban VIII versus Galileo - An Unequal Contest
• Wallis versus Hobbes - Squaring the Circle
• Newton versus Leibniz - A Clash of Titans
• Darwin’s Bulldog versus Soapy Sam - Evolution Wars

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My friends who are taking anatomy are experiencing difficult times memorizing everything, here’s a trick for you to pass your paper.

I think they are cool, but I scare pains, I would have a temporary tattoo of that on my body. Does it makes things easier for surgeon to perform an operation?

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I haven’t see sun for a long time. My activities start after sunset, and stop before sunrise. I do my works, studies, haave funs during night time, the darker it is, the more hyper I am. People say my genes mutated.

If you think that the idea of a morning person or an evening person is nonsense, then postgraduate student Martin Sale and his colleagues from the University of Adelaide have news for you.

—— Science Daily: Brains Learn Better At Night

This piece of news is nonsense, different people has different body and brain. There are still lots of people learn better in the morning. I can learn good in both time, just that I’m easily fall asleep in the morning and easily got distracted at night.

Now you might caught me waking up this early morning writing this post, the fact is I haven’t sleep for days without the help of caffeine. Just doing my assignments and reports.

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Population booming of macaque monkeys in Malaysia become a problem for the government, two months ago, Malaysia government quietly remove the ban on the export of macaque monkeys for meats and research purposes to control the population of the macaque monkeys.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysia has defended its decision to allow the export of macaque monkeys for meat and scientific research purposes, saying it will help curb their booming population in cities where they attack people and raid homes for food.

For meats? Few years ago, I heard in China people just open a hole on the head of living monkeys and put a straw in and suck their brain. Monkeys are sent to research laboratories for BBQ? No way!

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