- RT @MarsRovers Check out the "street-view" of Spirit's address at Troy. Download & take the 360-degree tour. (mov file) http://bit.ly/bDhGoA #
- online murder http://is.gd/7vdML #failbooking #
- one bad #iphone app http://is.gd/7vNOZ #
- http://twitpic.com/10xvi9 – just realized that i considered this a "calmer week". well, several of the events are in the "social life" categ #
- mmh, the smell of fresh coffee… makes me wanna throw up. #
- dammit! the next @oewf meeting is coming up next week, and i'll be abroad. wonder if i'll ever make it! #
- the circle of leaf http://is.gd/7CbaS #
- Gewinne ein 16GB #Apple #iPad beim #TouchTalk #Podcast — Retweete und mach mit! http://www.touchtalk.at #
- next time i need something from the pharmacy, i'll carry 50 loose eggs and ask the chemist for something against high cholesterol. #
- for my next trip, i actually received a printed-out, paper form ticket. i didn't think these are still in use anywhere! #
- http://twitpic.com/11kd1z – "das EI mit dem gewissen EGGstra" – a bilingual pun i saw today. rare occasion. #
- signing off for a few days. :) #
- perfect start http://twitpic.com/11ogad #
- there's a pirate staying in this hotel, and i have photographic evidence! also, he's in his mid-eps and seems to be with his mom. #
- RT @vomessen Neu im Blog: Anti-Diebstahl-Säckchen für die Jause http://bit.ly/7FGZmW #
- oops, just found a birrhday present for mom, which i bought about 2.5 years ago. when is mothers' day, again? ;) #
- finally: it's time for my lunch! #
- new idea: setting up a treadmill along a popular jogging route and acting as if everything was normal. who's with me? #hiddencamera #
- RT: @StyleMyPhone_de: Lese gerade: iPhone News » Blog Archive » Apple Tablet: iPad-Werbung aufgetaucht? http://bit.ly/7cNbLD #islate #ipad #
- warning win http://is.gd/77e4O #failblog #
- migratory restlessness. #
- going 20 on an ordinary downward road because of winter conditions and not feeling my almost frozen pinky despite thick leather gloves… #
- …makes me wonder – yet again – how long i will have to remain in a climate region with 4 seasons. #
- a certain professor just explained the flagella apparatus of chlamydomonas by wearing a viking hat. no kidding! #
- elephant win http://is.gd/7f80g #
- one day, i'll have to figure out how to suppress that primordial instinct that says "eat as much as you can, you … #
- …don't know when you'll get to eat next time", especially when i'm having running sushi :) #
- aww, poor spirit! http://is.gd/7nPut #xkcd #
- RT @Richard_Dawkins Frogs Pee Away Scientists’ Attempt to Study Them http://bit.ly/6dUKfR #
- RT @qikipedia Heaviest element known to science discovered http://tinyurl.com/yhaqtcz #
- RT @DatenRATTE heise mobil – Qualcomm zeigt farbiges Mirasol-Display – http://goo.gl/bAem #
- I follow @qikipedia #qikipedia #
- if you think everything's great today, tomorrow you might be reminded how fragile everything really is. :-\ #
- RT @StyleMyPhone_de Apfel-Zubehoer.de übersiedelt nach StyleMyPhone.de! In diesem Zuge hat sich auch der Twittername veraendert. #
- just… a little… further! http://bit.ly/5O87ON #cheezburger #
- RT @theellenshow http://twitpic.com/y8adp – #WhatsWrongWithThisPhoto #
- http://twitpic.com/yq1do – a quick photo-manipulation with a rivularia-(=alga)-smiley for a hydrobotany presentation. most of it was already #
- great sketch: 40, 45 years http://is.gd/6CGmV #
- "Above all, when you redesign the website, I don’t want any HTML in it. I’m tired of dealing with all the hassles of HTML." #clientsfromhell #
- first documented case of a lion using tools http://is.gd/6H4Ed #
- RT @serafinowicz "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here" #
- somebody just diagnosed me with ADHD. like that's something new. ;) #
- before and after win http://is.gd/6LBZf #fail #
- four fun facts about sloths http://is.gd/6LDNv #
- RT @MarsRovers Oppy's study of a mysterious rock gives scientists a rare glimpse of the Martian interior http://bit.ly/5FccFz #
- polarbear win http://is.gd/6N99y #
- Earth calling: A short history of radio messages to ET (apparently that includes vaginal sounds) http://is.gd/6Nc5r #
- favorite response regarding my last tweet: "If alien life exists, we have probably weirded it out by now." #
- too funny: sleep talking man's quotes http://is.gd/6Pi0w | video clip: http://is.gd/6Pi2J | badgertastic! #
- "I can't control the kittens. Too many whiskers! Too many whiskers!" #sleeptalkinman http://is.gd/6PlFQ #
- RT @jesus At a wine bar. Waitress is getting a little suspicious after ordering my third glass of water. #
- if anybody needs me, i'm in the shower. #
- backwards b http://is.gd/6Thpf #fail #
- "if insects disappeared, life on earth as we know it would disappear in 50 years. if humans disappeared, life would flourish" (jonas salk) #
- funny berlitz commercial http://is.gd/6TW5s #
- wow, i can actually trace back the farmers (w/ name and address) that contributed to my pack of milk: http://is.gd/6VnW5 #zurueckzumursprung #
about one year ago, i took part in a laboratory class where we learned various methods related to artificial plant reproduction.
one of the exercises was to create meristem cultures from a carnation plant (dianthus sp.), under sterile conditions.
from each shoot of the plant, we removed the developing leaves on the tip, almost down to the meristem (the few primary cells that constantly divide into more cells). we stopped the exraction at the smallest primordial leaves, placed the tiny piece of plant material on culture medium (in test tubes, under sterile conditions), added a cap to the tube, and sealed it with parafilm.
the following weeks, it was positioned beneath a daylight lamp, and after the experiment was finished, i asked if i could take one specimen home with me.
considering that it’s an almost completely closed system, i didn’t expect little william the carnation to last this long: the plant grew and grew until it reached the top, and i’ve just recently placed it upside down, so that it could grow “upwards” again.
two notes:
most people don’t consider that, in darkness, plants need to “breathe” just as animals do (as in: use O2 and release CO2), so the gas contents are probably still OK, if only limited. (also, i’m assuming that parafilm isn’t able to stop slow diffusion of gas molecules completely.)
supposedly getting low on fresh nutrients, the plant seems to have given up on the lower leaves so that it could develop new ones. the old, withered leaves do not decompose since there aren’t any microorganisms in the system.
this just made me laugh out loudly for the past 20 minutes: sleep talkin’ man is the blog of a british woman who records her husband sleeptalking. she then posts the funniest quotes.
some of my favourites:
“Can you hold… can you hold my starfish? It doesn’t like it when I’m getting excited. Oh look, it likes you! Its legs are all cree-py cree-py.”
“You can’t be a pirate if you haven’t got a beard. I said so. MY boat, MY rules.”
“We haven’t got a plank. Just fucking jump.”“Oompa loompas don’t sing in heaven. They tidy up the clouds.”
“I can’t control the kittens. Too many whiskers! Too many whiskers!”
“Put it down! Step away from the yam. Step away!”
“Yeah. Don’t forget to dry-clean the baby.”
“When did you turn into a bug? Strange.”
“Oh, we’re going to be late for the pogo ballet, stop it!”
“Look out! Marshmallows!”
when asleep, adam (the husband described as being mild-mannered while awake) has a different vocabulary, and is not very fond of vegetarians.
if you think somebody made this up, there’s a youtube clip of the couple’s first tv show appearance
- RT @echeng RCA Airnergy – harvest Wifi power! http://bit.ly/75FyOp #
- epic win: Uuuuh…. A+? http://is.gd/63pO6 #
- very cool: giant ant robot shows the incredible degree of mobility of ants, despite exoskeleton etc. http://is.gd/69xD1 #
- google to stop censorship in china: http://is.gd/6b2zR #
- RT @almightygod Gay teen worried he might be Christian: http://bit.ly/5VJDqm #
- RT: @mashable: China Censors Google’s Threat to Pull Out of China – http://bit.ly/92YyxA #
- dammit: google calendar won't let me edit/delete entries, just when i need to do some urgent work. #fail #
- time traveler's cheat sheet. must have! http://is.gd/6dEuB #
- has anybody ever thought of selling a calendar w/ pics of toilets, to hang up in restrooms? just wondering… #
- sounds like a cool app! RT @olidax http://twitpic.com/y6vw2 – shot a paramedic ;-) (http://bit.ly/11tI0w) #
- RT @mashable Conan Puts The Tonight Show for Sale on Craigslist – http://bit.ly/5DIUmD #
- German Government: Stop Using Internet Explorer http://is.gd/6lrXT #
- ATM skimmer — could you spot it in the wild? http://is.gd/6pAKO #
- "to gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw perfume on the violet, is just fucking silly" (tim minchin quotes shakespeare) #
- RT @mashable The FBI Sucks at Photoshop [PIC] – http://bit.ly/6pyGGn #
- embarrassed to be an austrian: pigs buried alive in the snow and left to die 'in name of avalanche research' http://is.gd/6sfTN #
- moscow billboard porn video causes traffic jam http://is.gd/6swWz #
- if i were any cuter… http://is.gd/6szvR #cheezburger #
- "the universe is big, rare events happen all the time (incl. life), and that doesn't mean it's special" –lawrence krauss #
- RT (sortof) @ArminWolf a quite funny juxtaposition of Avatar and Pocahontas: http://bit.ly/4ZYww4 #
- RT @WWF 10 species to watch in 2010 http://cli.gs/6nM37X #
- the idea of a sun that never sets has completely mesmerized me. #
- authentic thai curry, made with curry paste which was bought in bangkok http://twitpic.com/wy52g #
- we even have original thai chopsticks :) http://twitpic.com/wy5gm #
- …and of course: a side of vegetables,thai style http://twitpic.com/wy7hz #
- just ran into @olidax and gernot from @oewf. meeting cyberspace-acquaintences for the 1st time is funny. #
- oops, i meant acquaintAnces. #
- RT @echeng The Walrus video of all walrus videos. http://is.gd/5U9eV #
- dam'it! wanted to simply watch a movie this evening. just finished work. #
- Anti-whaling boat left to sink in Antarctica http://is.gd/5W72y #
- Australia tells Japan: stop whaling http://is.gd/5W7dY #
- RT @Richard_Dawkins Scientists Use Light to Map Neurons http://short.to/12xml #
- youtube goes 3D? need glasses! 5 eye-popping 3d youtube videos http://is.gd/5YiUM #
