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Just got back from Denver, Colorado. I was visiting the University of Colorado Health Sciences department.  Grad school interviews.  Craziness.  8.5 hours of interviewing – but really, really fucking good food.  I love steak.

Good things that happened – met lots of other biology majors, bought a kickass smelling candle (Selene, the Bringer of Good Dreams candle; combo of Jasmine, Lemongrass, Lavender and Rose), bought (then broke) a shot glass, got to ride on my first airplane.

Bad things – had to ride on an airplane…alone, had to wander the 53 square mile Denver International Airport…alone, cold water in my 4 star hotel.

I can’t wait for so many movies…Blade II, Star Wars II, Matrix II…ahhh, how I love sequels. Though, there are none that can compare with the ass-blasters of Tremors III: Return to Perfection.  I love that…the second one was bad enough, I can’t barely believe they had the balls to make a third.  What else looks good…hmmm…not too much.  I want to see Brotherhood of the Wolf and the Count of Monte Cristo.  Bad movies…any new teen movies, especially those involving pop stars.  Disturbingly enough, there are 2 movies with Robin Williams being a bad guy in them – Insomnia and Death to Smootchy.  Scary thought I do believe.

Finished Shermer’s “The Borderlands of Science” good book, especially for skeptics of the world.  Also he authors a magazine and has a website (www.skeptic.com) – worth looking at.  Bought “On the Origins of Species” in Colorado.  I was lucky to find it in paperback.  It is as interesting as I thought.  I also got some good book recommendations from the many scientists I interviewed with in Colorado – including “The 8th Day of Creation”, “The 7 Daughters of Eve”, “Silent Spring” and “Having Faith.” I shall have to investigate the library for those works, as well as that one book by Aldo Leopold I’ve always meant to read.

Next book I want to buy: “A Brave New World” by Aldus Huxley.

Goals for this week – pick a topic for my next Advanced Molecular Biology presentation – it’s a tossup between AP-2 genes (which cause the inside out mouse phenomenon of Trevor Williams discovery) and MC1R mutation that causes melanism in so many creatures.

Thoughts to self: I am very lazy and I definitely need to write more often on this Xanga site. I need to make a list of pros and cons about OSU and U of Co…and decide where the hell I want to end up…at least for the next few years…Denver or Columbus.

<sigh>

When did life get so complicated? I wish it could be easy like when I was young – of course, I thought life sucked then too. When didn’t life suck? Eh…perhaps never.

Bought some cool stuff for Eric in Denver – chocolate honey, SOBE the sports drink and ORA (Eric related joke) Potency. Fun shit….

2001-04-16

TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY:
 
MULE BREAKS LAWS OF NATURE IN PORTUGAL
As the Portuguese mourn the death of Christ this Easter, the country is presented with the birth of a freak of nature. The fact which has gripped this Catholic nation is that a fundamental law of nature has been broken: a mule has given birth.
A mule is a hybrid, the result of an act of copulation between a horse and a donkey and being a hybrid, is not supposed to have the ability to conceive. Now the rules of science and the laws of nature are broken as a mule gives birth to a healthy specimen.
The fact is so unusual that Portuguese specialists have started to investigate the case. It is known that the mule in question cohabited with a horse and a donkey and the first tests are under way to establish the paternity, using microsatellites in molecular marker batteries.
Chromosome studies show a strange panoply of a mosaic of different cell populations within the same animal, proving that various genetic structures are functioning at the same time.
Professor Teresa Rangel of UJAD University and Professor Antunes Correia, of the Lisbon Veterinary Medicine Faculty are coordinating studies to discover how the event took place.
Meanwhile, the scientific community is debating what to call the new baby. Professor Antunes Correia suggested “Interspecific Hybrid” but…what a horrible name!

TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY
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