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Links, featuring goat pathogens, antelope sex and James Joyce

May 22nd, 2010 No comments
The most amusing sentence I have read this week about the recent discovery of synthetic life is from The Loom at Discover Magazine: What would Joyce have thought if someone had told him that one day that the synthesized genome of a goat pathogen would carry his words?

I have to think his response would be: “A goat pathogen?”
While we’re on the subject of biology, you should know that male antelopes will lie to get sex. So don’t be trusting those antelope boys, ladies.
A woman was fined while out walking her dog.

Was it off the leash? No.
Did she not pick up after it? Kind of. She did try, she just picked up the wrong poo.
A man spent over seven years trying to complete a 5,000 piece jigsaw puzzle …. which can only mean one thing. When he finally reached the end, he found that one piece was missing.
Introducing the sideburn caliper.
Want to study virtual worlds for a living?

There’s an academic journal for that.
Want to learn how to play D&D? Let a porn star teach you!
How to get rid of a debt collector.
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A must-read blog

July 7th, 2009 No comments

It may be hard to believe, but there are other must-read blogs out there. Yes, there are horizons beyond the Blog that is both Big and Bad. And yes, it is hard to admit it.

Do you want to know the median frequency of nose picking?

Do you need to know about the acute management of the zipper-entrapped penis?

Do you have a deep and abiding need to determine the authenticity of shrunken heads?

If you answered “No” to all of these questions, we will be reviewing your membership in the Big Bad Blog readership. If you said “Yes” to at least one — and we know that you did — you will find NCBI ROFL to be a welcome addition to your daily reading material.
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Manned by two graduate students with too much time on their hands, the Ladies and/or Gentlemen of NCBI ROFL wander around NCBI online databases (mostly PubMed, from the looks of things), bringing we, the people, the most bizarre, funny and strange research currently found in the worlds of biological and medical science. This is real research about nose picking and navel lint. We could not ask for more.

And for that, Ladies and/or Gentlemen of NCBI ROFL, we at the Big Bad Blog thank you.

For those of you who are curious:
Wikipedia on NCBI
Wikipedia on PubMed

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