Nothing can stop this pig but only with some wellington boots.
She’s got a bit of mud phobia.
From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/7448006.stm
“The next wave in health care may include a brigade of medical nanobots, devices tiny enough to ride the flow of blood through the body’s arteries to a problem area. The bots might arrive at a clot, for example, nd then, using an internal power system, obliterate the clot with a precisely targeted drug or therapy. The same molecular power pacs that fuel sperm in their journey through the uterus and to a fallopian tube might be copied and used to keep the nanomachines running once they reach their targets.
Led by reproductive biologist Alex Travis, the engineering effort focuses on a chain of enzymes that metabolize glucose molecules into the biological fuel ATP, which enables sperm locomotion. Ordinarily the ATP provides sperm with enough energy to bend and flex their tails as they swim to the unfertilized egg. Travis’ plan is to copy the design of the sperm’s engine by slightly modifying a 10-enzyme glycolysis chain embedded in the sperm’s tail and then to install it in nanobots.
Using mouse sperm, Travis has thus far modified the first two enzymes on the chain so that they can bind to nickel ions attached to the surface of a tiny gold chip, which serves as a stand-in for a future nanobot. Now he needs to tweak the remaining enzymes so they can be attached too. If the spermlike moto works, it could someday use the body’s own energy source -glucose- to do such things as run super-tiny medical devices designed to release anti-cancer drugs or trigger the breakup of potentially deadly clots. “
By Patrick Huyghe
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My forearms are absolutely tense from drumming. That’s what I get for not going to practice and indulging myself in homework that I end up not wanting to do. It was an interesting experience to teach Ted to do cymbals but feeling kind of guilty for being in a bad mood, hence, semi-yelled at him. (insert #sad emoticon) The performance turned out okay, I didn’t really expect much since everyone just kind of learned everything literally last minute. My mom ruined my plans to spend some quality time walking around with Ted at pacific mall, which put in a bad mood for the rest of the day. But luckily, I have something else to look forward to as a trade to not be mad anymore. “Yes, Ted. I do crazy things when I’m in love” (I still love that Wal-Mart shopping cart incident) Now I can happily daydream about my date with him on Friday. No no, it’s not like those girls in the dramas I swear.
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If you still don’t get Einstein’s ideas, try this explanation reportedly from The Man Himself: “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.”
-Susan Kruginski (Discover March 2008)
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i remember when he yelled at us because we had done something wrong again. he told us to leave and never to come back again. we were in tears begging him to let us stay, that we would be good. as our form of punishment, he told us to kneel outside on the porch and hold on to our ears. we reluctantly stepped out the front door. it was bitter cold outside so we huddled as close as we could. he quickly shut the door, went out from the side door and got into the car. he started the engine and we watched him drove away. he asked me whether he was going to come back home. i didn’t have an answer. tired because it was late at night, we decided to stop kneeling. wearing only thin pj’s, we huddled closer and cried together while taking turns in comforting each other. ten minutes passed and we had already given hope of coming back. trying to make the best out of the situation, we tried to sleep despite the biting cold. i never felt so abandoned in my life. this time, i felt like that again except without anyone beside me on the steps. just me to help comfort myself. just me wiping my own tears with my sleeves.
