Are you a Biopunk?
Are you a biopunk? What is that? Wikipedia says: A growing number of scientists, artists and cultural critics are organizing to create public awareness of how human genomic information, produced by...
View ArticleDaily Lol: This man must have a lot of friends
Would someone please explain it to me? I don’t even understand the title of the article… (Hat Tip: Billrothhárom) Update: Explanation at Clinical Cases and Images!
View ArticleTouchGraph of Scienceroll
Hsien-Hsien Lei always finds these colorful graphs and tools with which you can waste some time. But to be honest, I like these. Here is the TouchGraph of Scienceroll.com. It demonstrates the...
View ArticleCreative medicine-related ads
Friday fun with medicine-related advertisements. I hope Vanessa will like these as well. Enjoy it! Toyota campaign Source Against second hand smoking Against HIV The source of the images is Print Ads....
View ArticlePlease Donate: My dream is to have my genome sequenced!
I know I’m not a Craig Venter, Misha Angrist or anybody else in the list of the 10 subjects of the Personal Genome Project (PGP) whose genomes will be sequenced and published, but as I plan to pledge...
View ArticleFind out how long you can expect to live!
We always find some games and tests with which we can waste some time, but at least, this one seems to be interesting. Let’s find out how long you can expect to live based on some questions related to...
View ArticleWhat to do if you’re tired?
I’m going to write plenty of interesting articles in the next few days, but the only thing I can do now is to post these funny, web-related images. Enjoy and drop me a mail in case you have more!...
View ArticleThe Formulae of Venter, Dawkins, Church, PZ Myers and Ridley
At Edge.org, you can find the formulae of many famous scientists. It’s funny and interesting at the same time because you can learn a lot about a person by his/her formula. Check it out! Here is my...
View ArticleSimulated Open Heart Surgery: Be a Surgeon!
Here is an other game with which you can waste some time and learn interesting facts about an open heart surgery. First choose your grade and study the anatomy of the heart or let’s get into the...
View ArticleFlowchart: Rate your Website!
I’ve recently come across a funny flowchart on WarpedVisions.org. It helps you determine which category your website fits into: Brain rot Web 2.0 fluff Fanboy site Newb Egoblogger /dev/null The Real...
View ArticleOrder Your DNA Portrait!
Deepak Singh, the author of BBGM, shared an interesting link with us through Twitter. You can get your own DNA portrait at DNA 11. In the era of personalized genetics, it’s a perfect example how...
View ArticleD.N.A. Flash Game for Scientific Geeks
An other game for scientific geeks to waste time with. Here are the instructions: If you left click on two different colored proteins, you create a cell. If you chain 10 proteins together, you burst a...
View ArticleDance Your Ph.D. Contest!
Science Magazine’s Dance Your Ph.D. contest is just amazing. What’s next? Before the show, each dancer had about 60 seconds to describe their research to the judges. So this was more than just a dance...
View ArticleDaily Fun: Biochemical Puzzles
Just a short post about a blog where you can find biochemical puzzles and quizzes. Let’s start with an amino acid crossword. Further reading: Dance Your Ph.D. Contest! Medical Slang: Bury the Hatchet,...
View ArticleDance Your Research Project: Videos of Finalists
Do you remember the Dance Your PhD contest? The Science Dance Match-Up challenge is not a new one but still features really interesting videos. This experiment began back in October 2008 with a...
View ArticleGenetically Engineered Machines Competition: Super Mario
iGEM stands for International Genetically Engineered Machines and this is quite an interesting and unique competition organized by MIT for university-level students. Each team is provided with a kit of...
View Article‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ Finalists Announced
Last year, I wrote about Science Magazine’s competition in which researchers could dance their research projects or PhDs. Now the finalists are announced. Check these highly creative scientists out:...
View ArticleVideogames with paramecia players
Stanford University bioengineer Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and his colleagues are developing “biotic games” where players control paramecia and other living microorganisms. The PacMan-like video games are the...
View ArticleRockstar Scientists in Lego: Hilarious!
Maia Weinstock thought it would be great to create the Lego forms of the most famous scientists, science bloggers, and science journalists who are also active online. The project is called Scitweeps...
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