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I finished reading two novels from Kathy Reichs (Fatal Voyage and Monday Mourning), they are both great reads. So I thought I’ll write a few sentences about Kathy Reichs. As all the other novels that I’ve read from her is featuring Dr. Temperance Brennan (Tempe) who is a forensic anthropologist.
What I like most about Kathy’s novels is the exact and realistic description of how Tempe is getting to the conclusions from experiments mostly on bones. The reason behind this precision is of course the fact that she has a PhD in forensic anthropology and has worked both as an academic and as a part of an investigation teams. These descriptions are written good enough for everyone to understand without sacrificing the scientific base. Recently they started making a new TV series called Bones based on Kathy Reichs books and featuring Tempe Brennan, I have not watched any of it yet but I hope that in the series they don’t destroy her work!

If you haven’t read anything from Kathy Reichs yet, I totally recommend her books and as I don’t have any favorite between those 5 that I’ve read, I recommend them all! ;))

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In an older post I introduced an Iranian stand up comedian. Shappi is another stand up comedian living in the UK. Watch the video:

This is awesome, a friend sent me this video which is the casting for the Bulgarian Idol. She is trying to sing “Without You”. I specially love the way she sings “if leaving is without you”.

This video really made me laugh! It is a parody of I wanna be a rockstar from Nickelback.

• I guess most of you at least once have played Tetris, Japanese had the brilliant idea of playing a Human Tetris in a game show. It is really funny, Also watch the second and third part of the video in YouTube!

Maz Jobrani is an Iranian-American comedian who alongside two other middle eastern-American comedians Ahmed Ahmed (Egyptian-American), Aron Kader (Palestinian-American), have made the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour. (occasionally Dean Obeidallah joins the group). The Tour started in November of 2005, and in case you don’t know it was named after George W.
Bush dubbing Iraq, Iran, and North Korea, as the “Axis of Evil”.You can go to their homepage and watch some videos they have online. In the following video, Maz Jobrani’s compares Iranians and Arabs.

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This is really funny, Jeff Dunham in this video has interviewed a dead terrorist!
In his homepage you can watch other videos of his performance with “Walter”.

1- Simpson’s Avator! In the webpage of the new Simpson’s movie you can build your own Simpson’t avator! (There is a link on top of the page). It is really funny, even if you’re not a fan of Simpson’s. Here is the one that I made of myself…

2- “Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your life? “ SCROOGLED is a great fiction novel by Cory Doctorow, which is published in 5 parts in Radar magazine. (for the other parts see 2, 3, 4, 5) My good friend Jadi has also translated it to Persian, you can read it here.

3- Dr. Anthony Atala of Wake Forest University is building organs in his lab. Watch this video, he gets the bladder cells from the patients and cultures them in incubator and creates a new bladder that can be transplanted back to the patients without the problem of rejection. It is a pity that his homepage in the university is very brief.

PhD comics is a great website for all that are doing PhD work, have done it, or are doing scientific work! Just surf through it and I’m sure you’re going to enjoy it. This one is the story of witting papers:

“Piled Higher and Deeper” by Jorge Cham

www.phdcomics.com

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