Archive for December, 2005

Do you have a dirty mind?

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Take a look at the picture, what do you see?

Titta på bilden, vad ser du?

What do you see?

Research has shown that young children can’t see the intimate couple since children don’t have memories associated with such scenario. What they will see are the nine dolphins. This is a test to determine if you already have a corrupted mind. If it’s hard for you to find the dolphins within 5 seconds, your mind is indeed corrupted.

Forskning visar att unga barn inte kan se det intima paret eftersom barnen inte har några tidigare minnen kopplade till en sådan situation. Barnen kommer istället se de nio delfinerna i bilden. Detta är ett test för att se om ditt sinne är förvrängt. Om du inte ser delfinerna inom 5 sekunder har du ett förvrängt sinne.

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Woolly Mammoth Genome Partly Mapped

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

German scientists said in Nature, the British science journal, that they had reconstructed a key sequence in the genome of the woolly mammoth. With this sequence it is possible to show that the closest modern relative to the woolly mammoth is the Asian elephant.

The scientists used a new method called multiplex polymerase chain reaction. The method was used on 200 milligrams of bone extracted from a mammoths’ graveyard in the Siberian permafrost. With this method the scientists copied 46 chunks of sequence, rearranged them and could then get a picture mitochondrial DNA.

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