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After watching The Simpsons, this song gets into my mind and echoes repeatedly.

Spiderpig, Spiderpig,
Does what ever a spiderpig does.
Can he swing, from a web?
No he cant, he’s a pig.
Look out, he is a spiderpig

It’s classic.

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Mouse Factory in this post doesn’t refer to Mickey Mouse or Disney Land.

Besides parthenogenesis (the virgin-birth) of egg cells, another exciting news in biological recently is that researchers from Oregon Health & Science University has turned a mouse into some human liver cells manufacturing factory.

This not only change the way people change drugs, but also make things easier and cheaper for researchers to conduct their researches. Other than that, who knows your new liver will be a mouse-grown-human-liver, just kidding. If researchers manage to grow human liver on mouse, they can do the same on human too.

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I was searching articles for my assignments through PubMed, as accidental as this case study, I came across this article titled “Accidental condom inhalation” by Arya CL, Gupta R, Arora VK (2004).

A 27-year-old lady presented with persistent cough, sputum and fever for the preceding six months. Inspite of trials with antibiotics and anti-tuberculosis treatment for the preceeding four months, her symptoms did not improve. A subsequent chest radiograph showed non-homogeneous collapse-consolidation of right upper lobe. Videobronchoscopy revealed an inverted bag like structure in right upper lobe bronchus and rigid bronchoscopic removal with biopsy forceps confirmed the presence of a condom. Detailed retrospective history also confirmed accidental inhalation of the condom during fellatio.

She is a school teacher and it all happened while performing oral sex (Do you remember the Tongkat Ali Molecular Condom? It must be bitter). Arya et al. (2004) wrote this in the article, “It is, much desirable that sex taboos prevalent on the sub-continent are curbed and greater sexual awareness created in the people’s minds.”

However, inhalation of foreign objects not only happen while performing blowjob, such accident can also easily happen to babies. Babies love to bite things, it’s their inquisitive nature. I used to be a baby before, like other babies, I just put whatever things I can into my mouth. Don’t ask me what was the worst thing, babies have bad memories when they grow up.

Reference:

Arya, C.L., Gupta, R. and Arora, V.K. (2004), Accidental condom inhalation, The Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences, 2004 Jan-Mar, 46(1), pp. 55-58.

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I like powerful and spicy flavour of Shiraz (also known as Syrah), and not everyone can produce good Shiraz.

SYDNEY - Australian scientists say they have identified the substance that gives some red wines a distinctive peppery aroma, a discovery that could have major implications for the multi-billion dollar wine industry.

—— nzherald: Australians identify ‘black pepper’ compound in red wine

Sarawak Pepper (Sarawak is my hometown, located on Borneo Island) is Malaysia most renown pepper, and Sarawak itself ranks as the world fourth leading producers of pepper. I guess that’s why I love Shiraz. But the thing is, I quit drinking (not in the sense of wine, just beers and pure shots, not wine), and the last sip of my Shiraz+Cabernet Sauvignon, was drank by my laptop (the fact is my friend spilled the wine on my laptop, and I accidentally melted my keyboard as well).

Australia produces nice wines.

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All you need are:

1. One Glass (big enough to put an egg in, not your shot glass for drinking)
2. One Raw Egg
3. Vinegar

What you need to do:

1. Put the egg in the glass and soak with vinegar. (Make sure it is fully covered by vinegar)
2. Leave them for few hours and you can observe the changing of the egg.
3. When the egg fizz, take it out and squeeze it softly, does it feel like rubber ball?
4. Leave the egg back to the vinegar for another week.
5. After one week, take the egg out and drop it on a bowl, and guess what happen? It bounces!

What are the uses of this simple experiment to do bouncy egg?

• If you are too poor to buy a rubber ball to play.
• You can compete with your friends and see whose eggs bounced higher. (Call the game “who-is-the-ballless-one”)
• You simply just scare your friends with these eggs.
• You can use these eggs during the protest, in stead of breaking all the eggs you throwing at their windows, try to reuse the eggs.

Why is it happening?

The process called ‘decalcification’ occured when the egg soaked in the vinegar. Vinegar (acetic acid) actually reacted with the calcium carbonate of the eggshell. When the egg soaked in the vinegar and began to fizz, it indicated the reaction was happening and vinegar dissolved the eggshell. The reaction is as following

2CH₃COOH (acetic acid a.k.a. vinegar) + CaCO₃ (calcium carbonate a.k.a. eggshell) → H₂O (water) + CO₂ (carbon dioxide, which was the fizz) + Ca(CH₃COO)₂ (Bouny eggshell)

Instead of using egg, you can also try to use bones to do this and give your dog a good bite. Maybe you can make bouncing bones and sell to your local toy stores.

Found this video at metacafe:

Make Amazing Bouncy Egg! - For more amazing video clips, click here(Picture)

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