I haven’t been writing often here recently partly because of my busy schedule and partly because of the fact that I am writing more often in my Persian blog and have been busy setting up my new Photoblog. Now that the Photoblog is set and running I’ll write here more often
I thought I definitely have to share this video is part of the Daily show on 28th of July where John Oliver is reporting on McCain’s campaign. John Oliver is hilarious!
Also watch the Rapper or Republican…
Beating peaceful protestors does not uphold the Olympics values
Amnesty International (UK) has launched the second video of “Human Rights For China” campaign. They’ve used the viral launch to highlight the case of Huang Qi, a 45 years old cyber-dissident who runs the www.64tianwang.com website and has been detained since 10 June. Huang Qi was having dinner at a local restaurant in Chengdu with two volunteers from his organisation, the Tianwang Human Rights Centre, when several men – believed to be plainclothes police - forced them into a vehicle and took them away. Since then no-one’s been able to see him or speak to him: which means he’s at real risk of torture.
BBC has made a new webpage called “BLOOM=smart choices for the carbon conscience” for those who want to do their bit for the environment. It gives you practical suggestions to reduce CO2 emission, along with the costs and other information. I’m sure you can find a lot of helpful information in there. (thanks to Marco for sending me the link!)
I wrote a relatively long post in my Persian blog about Freiburg as part of Green movement between Persian bloggers. Freiburg is the Ecological and Solar capital of Germany. I thought here I can share one video and a few links for those who are interested:
I wrote about this in my Persian blog but I wanted to share it here too. Harrison Ford is not just appearing on the new Indiana Jones adds these days, he appears also on the Conservation International ads like the one bellow which he loses an acre of the forest on his chest to show how much it hurts.
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”.
25 January, 2008 (10:05) | Humor, Science | By: Ali
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! ;))
Interesting news in Stem Cell Research: Nature News, A California company has brought human cloning research to a new level with efficient production of cloned human blastocysts. If you want to be updated about stem cell research news, Nature Reports Stem Cells is a valuable resource.
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.
