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I can’t stop the funny feelings and feeling like laughing out when I read the one of the highlight in nature news: Swiss dignity law is threat to plant biology.

The Swiss federal government’s ethics committee on non-human biotechnology has mapped out guidelines to help granting agencies decide which research applications deeply offend the dignity of plants — and hence become unfundable.

The funny feelings are just like when I see the fact we are having not enough money but Deputy Prime Minister insisting our second space tourism is on, and the fact where our CSI graduates are jobless after following courses designed by related government departments.

Except when I read the sentence “dignity of plants”, I can laugh it out.

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From October 2007’s Reader’s Digest.

Scientists have identified a food that, once digested, can have negative effects on people’s health that last for decades, including mood-swings in women, psychotic episodes in men and severe depression in both.

It’s called wedding cake.

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Here’s another joke from October 2007’s Reader’s Digest.

One evening my sister, Jane, and her husband were entertaining guests while their kids did their homework upstairs. During dinner, eight-year-old Jeff appeared at the table. “Mum,” he whispered, trying not to be noticed.

“What is it, honey?”

“I need some help with my science experiment,” he said, handing Jane a marker and a piece of paper.

“What’s this for?”

“I need to draw a conclusion,” Jeff said seriously, “but I don’t know what one looks like.”

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The Africa one is kind of insulting, I don’t reckon that. The Japan one is funny. Transformers!

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This lecture presented by Doug Zonker was so ‘chicken’. I do learn from this presentation in stead of falling asleep, which is CHICKEN!

Maybe next biology lecture the boring lecturer can just keep on repeating CELL CELL CELL. I hate lecturers who mumble.

You can download the presentation pdf slide from here.

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Just read this from December 2007 Reader’s Digest.

Too much information is not always a good thing. I was at a drugstore trying to decide between two types of rubbing alcohol. Both appeared to be the same, so I called my husband, a chemical engineer. “What’s the difference between isopropyl rubbing alcohol and ethyl rubbing alcohol?” I asked.

“Easy,” he said. “One carbon atom.”

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Secret to eternity? CENTRIFUGE!

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It’s good to have dates from different fields so that you can know a lot of things which you’re not suppose to know.

I googled this “Reasons to Date a Microbiologist“.

- We do everything 10x 40x 100x bigger and better
- Size doesn’t matter
- We know the meaning of complement
- We always wear protection and use sterile technique
- We can run our own pregnancy and STD tests
- We do it on a stage
- We don’t wear anything under our lab coats
- We know the importance of direct contact during conjugation
- We wash our hands before and after everything
- We love Coronavirus with a lime

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When I was at China Airport, I saw this box of chocolate, “China Panda Chocolate”. This triggered my imagination, whether it’s made of the panda itself, or its poop.

Vanessa Hull, 25, a Ph.D. candidate, is in the snowy, remote mountains of the Sichuan Province of China — which also is the heart of panda habitat. She’s hoping to capture, collar and track up to four wild pandas using advanced global positioning systems.

Coincidently, I saw this piece of news.

By the way, that box of chocolate ain’t cheap. It costs at least RMB 100. Its taste is bad too.

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“24″ has been one of my favourite TV series. I found it funny that Jack always has the same look, and same moves. From the series, he’s not so young (definitely not his 20s). He’s having a grown up daughter and I’m quite sure Jack is at least in the 40s in the show. So what did he do during his 30s, such as 1994? AOL, modem, public phone, pager were used to break down the terrorist acts （not to mention his hair). Watch this show:

Now we know why Jack is still able running around for 24 hours non-stop, simply because he’s well-trained back in 1994. I know this is not science related, but this is just funny. This reminds me years ago we were hoping for a floppy disk which has at least 100mb to be released. Now there are no more floppy disk driver in the new laptops and computers, it’s the thumbdrive/pendrive/handydrive that rules.

Imagine if we don’t have Petri dishes, we might still be culturing our bacteria one a piece of pork. Guess what, Japanese actually have a theme song for “24″, and it’s so 80s. This theme song should integrate into the 1994’s video. From the old time to now, Jack Bauer is the only guy who can stop terrorism in USA.

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