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Sarah Palin has become the victim of a prank phone call by a Canadian comedian posing as the French president.
While discussing a hunting trip together by a helicopter, the comedian said:

“I just love killing those animals. Mmm, mmm, take away life, that is so fun,”

Even after this exaggerated comment Sarah Palin didn’t recognized that this cannot be the french president until he introduced himself!
After telling the governer about the prank he finished by saying this sentence:

If one voice can change the world for Obama, a Viagra can change the world for McCain!

Listen to this hilarious prank call here.

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Sarah Palin duped by prank call

A colleague of mine was searching for an article in Pubmed today and because of typing mistake she found this article. This is an article in Physics Journal (PDF original paper), and the reason I’m writing about it is the number of authors (I did not count but definitely more than 200 authors) and these authors are are from 74 institutions. I don’t know anything about the field of this paper but as a biochemist this number of authors was funny and surprising for me!

As all of you know the European Championship is starting in a few days and Germany’s first game is with Poland. This is a funny advertisement for this match and it is about German and Polish football fans, and how they behave!

P.S. If you’re wondering where are the Polish fans in this video I add that they are riding the car!

In the recent volume of Lab times I read about the (bad) effect of beer on number of publications by scientists! (You can read the online version here Page 14). Well, honestly sometimes if there was no hope of one (or a few) cold beer after work scientific work could’ve been much more difficult don’t you agree? So Cheers! ;))

Original article

New York Times article discussing this

P.S. The picture is the German Hefe Weizen (wheat beer) which is my favorite “publication reducing” agent.

Sometimes my friends who are not in the field of science ask me what is a PostDoc! Well I finally found the perfect answer for these questions!

Watch the series of PostDoc comics in PhDcomics to see what I mean comic1; comic2; comic3; comic4. I had also previously posted a comic from PhD comics here.

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Well it seems that this comic explains why DNA, Collagen and alpha helix are all right handed.

Take a look at Madeline’s comic page you can find other funny scientific comics.

A joke:

A Bee was passing next to the Nile River when he noticed a frog. He asked the frog: “I’d like to go to the other side of the Nile, is it possible that you take me with you?” The frog answered:”No, I’m afraid to die, you might sting me on the way”. The Bee said:”But I never would do such madness. I will die myself if I kill you!”. After thinking for a moment the frog said:”well you’re right; jump on my back and we get going”. In the middle of the river the Bee stung the frog. Frog shouted: “what the hell are you doing? You’re going to die too”.
The bee replied: “I know, but you seem to have forgotten, WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE EAST!”

This joke is originally in Persian written by Dr. Ahmad Okhovat and published in Gol-Agha magazine inside Iran. I read it in this Persian weblog and translated it to English.

This actually reminded me of an image describing the reason of all the problems in the middle east. I don’t know the origin of this image as there are no references. See this image in the rest of this post!

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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”.

Those of you who have something to do with biology know the importance of PCR in molecular biology today, for those of you who don’t know what Polymerase Chain Reaction is (or don’t care), in short one can say PCR did the same thing to Molecular Biology research that Transistor did to electronics! This is a video-song called PCR song, watching it you can also know a bit more what PCR can do! The song was made as an advertisement for Bio-Rad PCR machines and similar to USA for Africa song! In the rest of this post I also attach the Lyrics. Here you can find the original video and download it. I like it when at the end one of the guys is dancing with a PCR machine! ;))

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