Year: 2007
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The Sea-Monkey Diaries, Part Ten
This is an announcement we’ve dreaded making. Our sea-monkeys are no more. Actually, they haven’t been for a while since some time, and the colony expired some time during Naomi’s extended hospital stay (there were only one or two adults and a single baby left when she was warded in September). We’ll be leaving sea-monkey…
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Collective sigh
This evening when we went out to get a bite, we saw a notice posted at the basement car park lift lobby. I absent mindedly thought it was the old en-bloc attempt notice, but eagle-eyed Naomi saw that it was freshly photocopied A4, and took a further interest in reading it. We didn’t have to…
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Halloween en blocked
No, the yellow stains on Jake wasn’t because we were dressing him up for tricks or treats. Neither did he soil himself. The stains are from him brushing up against pollen from a bouquet of lilies. So, if you buy a bunch of these flowers and put them in a vase because you think they…
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$1b plant made using living cells?
I bought the papers this morning and saw on the front page that some pharmaceutical company was going to build a $1b “plant in Tuas using living cells”, and I thought, oh wow, and opened the paper in a hurry to read about the amazing biotechnological-construction-breakthrough thingie that would finally allow us to thumb our…
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The good oil on bad fats
I said, ‘get me a pic to do with “Trans Fat”, not “Fat Trans”‘ Photo by FredArmitage I now think that people who are easily confused (like myself) are less likely to eat healthily given the amount of information now available to us about saturated, unsaturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated fats and four-room HDB…