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(i have already obsessed over this for a few days now, but i can’t think of anything better right now. courtesy of m.w.)
Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that “glow in the dark”.
They claim that while other researchers have bred partly fluorescent pigs, theirs are the only pigs in the world which are green through and through.
The pigs are transgenic, created by adding genetic material from jellyfish into a normal pig embryo.
The researchers hope the pigs will boost the island’s stem cell research, as well as helping with the study of human disease.
The scientists, from National Taiwan University’s Department of Animal Science and Technology, say that although the pigs glow, they are otherwise no different from any others.
Taiwan is not claiming a world first. Others have bred partially fluorescent pigs before; but the researchers insist the three pigs they have produced are better.
In daylight, their eyes and skin are green-tinged. They are the only ones that are green from the inside out. Even their heart and internal organs are green, the researchers say.
To create them, DNA from jellyfish was added to about 265 pig embryos which were implanted in eight different sows.
Four of the female pigs became pregnant and three male piglets were born three months ago.
Green generation
In daylight, the researchers say the pigs’ eyes, teeth and trotters look green. Their skin has a greenish tinge. In the dark, shine a blue light on them and they glow torch-light bright.The scientists will use the transgenic pigs to study human disease. Because the pig’s genetic material is green, it is easy to spot. So if, for instance, some of its stem cells are injected into another animal, scientists can track how they develop without the need for a biopsy or invasive test.
But creating them has not been easy. Many of the altered embryos failed to develop.
The researchers say they hope the new, green pigs will mate with ordinary female pigs to create a new generation – much greater numbers of transgenic pigs for use in research.
of course, anything involving bacon is awesome.
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i just froze the fuck out of all of my extremities running to the stop & shop to get groceries for a winter-friendly dinner.
after a week of beautiful (yet out of place), damn-near-springlike, 50-degree weather, new england has decided to put everyone smack down in their place once again with a bout of frosty snowfall and plummetting temperatures. sonofabitch.
thus, all i’ve been able to accomplish today is take forfuckingever to do my mountains of laundry and scrounge up the fixin’s for a yummilicious broccoli-chicken-cheese casserole.
(is that not the most boring thing in the world to read?)
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only 2 days after his birthday festivities…and he has resurfaced! heh.
marcalicious (18:45:10): I don’t remember much after 10
pineapple (18:45:13): and i gave you syphillis
pineapple (18:45:20): hehehe. i left at like 8, too
pineapple (18:45:21): awesome
marcalicious (18:45:50): oh wow really?
pineapple (18:45:57): yeah
marcalicious (18:46:00): I still have the Pox
marcalicious (18:46:03): but 8?
marcalicious(18:46:20): shit I don’t remember that either and that was only 2 hours in
marcalicious (18:51:49) : I’m a dirty dirty whore
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Less Sexual Desire After the Pill?
this is the part that amuses/disturbs me the most:
The study — which looked only at women who already had sex problems — does not prove that birth control pills cause sexual dysfunction.
it’s like freud only studying depressed, manic, already-crazy women from a single demographic. or being all ‘fat people like food, tall people reach stuff on high shelves.’ and calling that a “study”.
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7 Things To Do Before I Die:
- learn to play guitar
- learn to speak spanish
- finish college
- travel to mexico, europe, africa, at least one island, and lego land
- save my baby brother
- pay off my debts
- figure out how to be happy (or a good facsimile of it)
(note: spawning offspring has been left off this list, with good reason. as well as anything career-oriented & other such meaningless bullshit)
7 Things I Can’t Do:
- general stupid human tricks: play guitar, speak spanish, wink with both eyes, carry a tune
- get everything i need to done in a mere 24 hours
- fix my fucked up family situation
- stop the exponential expansion of my ass (and everything else)
- keep my elbows from doing that weird, hyper-extension thing…or my knees, too, for that matter.
- stop biting my nails
- pretend to be happy enough to believe it
7 Things That Attract Me To People:
(i suppose these could work for both sexes*)
- having a sense of humor
- having a sick sense of humor (you know, to put up with me, it’s required)
- intelligence (despite how much fun it may seem initially, you can’t have a decent conversation with a retard)
- a love of books and music (and shiny things & things that spin…)
- respect of boundaries
- an honest smile (like, a real one; none of that creepy, politician-slick shit)
- a giant cock
(* i lied)
7 Things I say most often:
- this about covers it, generally speaking…
7 Movies I Could Watch Again & Again:
(can i actually only list seven?)
7 Books I Love:
(limiting this to seven is unholy)
- the dark tower series (hah! i’m cheating!)
- the stand
- watership down
- ecstasy
- i love you forever (though i can’t read this anymore without crying)
- haunted
- the giver
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how a bunch of questions about monkeys and rabbits and horses got this mumbo-jumbo to come up, i’ll never know (maybe i don’t want to, either…)
anyway, i’m sleepy, so…
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 You are attracted to good manners and elegance. In love, you feel the most alive when your lover is creative and never lets you feel bored. You’d like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful… that you’ll never change. You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please. Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future… one you can grow with. Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. You think of marriage pessimistically. You don’t think happy marriages exist anymore. In this moment, you think of love as something you thirst for. You’ll do anything for love, but you won’t fall for it easily. |
and, just because that was kind of crap:
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Your Fortune Is |
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