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admin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:38:08 +0000

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Ali — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:24:41 +0000

John Stewart from the Daily show invited Rick Santelli from CNBC (financial network) to the Daily show. He canceled and or as John puts it “bailed out” but John showed their special segment about CNBC’s mistakes anyway (watch it here). Jim Cramer from CNBC wrote an article and his article made John to respond on Monday’s show and all the other shows of this week so far and it became an “anchor WAR!”.
Watch the first segment and then watch “in Cramer we Trust” bellow. Watch the rest of this series here and here. Tonight Jim Cramer will be on the Daily show, looking forward to it…

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Teaching Creationism in Germany

Ali — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:46:49 +0000

A friend of mine send me a video documentary in YouTube (Von Göttern und Designern, Christlicher Fundamentalismus part 1) about a School in Germany in which they teach “Intelligent Design” in parallel to Evolution theory. Although they teach both “theories” to children the school teacher says that he believes in creationism and as a result influences the opinion of the students. Unfortunately the Documentary is only in German so if you can understand German here is the first part of it.
The funniest (or the saddest) part of it is about a Museum in the US where in an interview one of the museum workers explains that “the Dianasours were vegetarian in Heaven and used their teeth and nails to pick and eat heavenly fruits!”.
Yesterday I also read PZ Myers post about the Gaurdian’s article on British creationism, it seems that they are invading Europe seriously.
If you watch the documentary and/or read the Gaurdian’s paper and need to cool down you can do so by watching “Creationism: A Cautionary Tale” from atheristcartoons.com.

Palin-”Sarkozy” disscussion

Ali — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:05:01 +0000

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.

That is called a collaboration!

Ali — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:59:20 +0000

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!

Germany vs Poland

Ali — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:58:33 +0000

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!

Beer is bad for scientists!

Ali — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:40:04 +0000

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! )

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

PostDoc

Ali — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:28:01 +0000

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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Right handed DNA

Ali — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:19:38 +0000

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.

Middle east

Ali — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:17:00 +0000

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!

The description sayid: “that’s why the middle east is in Deep Shit!”