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Evolution t-shirts are not adult-only products, even babies can own an evolution t-shirt.

This is a “evolution of authority” t-shirt. From the footprints we know that authority changes with time. The first one was some huge creatures, then bare foot men, then men, and lastly women. There are different t-shirt colours for you to choose, which are white, pink, baby blue and daffodil yellow. Each piece of infant t-shirt is $13.99, and you can buy it from cafepress.

“Men In Black” (MIB) showed that alien might populated earth under the skin of human.  How would you know the millionaire next door is not an alien?  Are them friends or foes?

Tokyoflash Japan released Biohazard Watch for you to notice the presence of alien immediately.  The watch will scan the surrounding life forms and showed you the Alien DNA (if there is any).  If you see a hot chick flirting with you, please do not say “your place or my place” immediately.  Who knows she might just be alien species who needs your sperm for breeding.  But if you got selected as a breeder, you should feel proud as it’s revealed in species III that only men with good genes are selected (but your offspring will eventually die as no one has perfect gene).

The watch is a crap, and it’s really expensive ($179.29 each).  It is one of the most complicated watches to read the time.  The red and white double helix DNA above indicates the hours (as there are twelve bars).  The blue blocks at the bottom of the watch indicate minutes.  Each blue block is 5 minutes, whereas green blocks are 1 minute each.  It is said that there are indicators for AM/PM and seconds (but I haven’t figure out how to read them).  The funny thing is if Alien DNA is detected, it will show the percentage and the percentage of Alien DNA is actually the date.  For example if 12.13% Alien DNA is detected, it means that it is December the 13th.  That means the maximum Alien DNA can be determined is only 12.31%.

Would you buy this watch to complicate your life?  Shipping is free though.

[pic][pic][via Eye on DNA]

I just read “Why is science in Vietname Underdeveloped?” written by Pham Duc Chinh and it is alarming true that with such huge funding in the country, yet so few papers are published.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam spends over US$400 million for scientific research a year but Vietnamese scientists have independently published only around 80 scientific articles in international magazines a year in the past decade.

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In the world, the capability of scientists and nations is evaluated firstly by the number of articles published in international scientific magazines and the number of patents granted by prestigious international agencies.

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While Thai and Malaysian scientists have accepted standards on publishing scientific research in international magazines, Vietnamese try to neglect the standards, saying that Vietnam doesn’t have sufficient conditions for it.

According to Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Malaysia has published 13,059 papers from January 1997 to December 2007 (11 years), and granted 23 patents in 1997.

Even in Malaysia, I heard rumours that some research lab tend to buy really expensive lab equipments imported from USA rather than getting same quality cheap lab equipments from China. I talked to some researchers, and they complaint they are underpaid in Malaysia.