Ek Kanya :my daily ramblings

[basant kumar]

hey, this is soooperb! too way cool! you are talented, kikikikikiki!

[Ek Kanya]

kikikikikiki, you had written something about Magic Mushrooms in Amsterdam. Check these out. These mushrooms are really magical and glow in the dark...

Seven new glowing mushroom species have been discovered in Belize, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia and Puerto Rico.

Four of the species are completely new to scientists, and three previously known species were discovered to be luminescent. All seven species, as well as the majority of the 64 previously known species of luminescent mushrooms, are from the Mycena family.

“What interests us is that within Mycena, the luminescent species come from 16 different lineages, which suggests that luminescence evolved at a single point and some species later lost the ability to glow,” said biologist Dennis Desjardin of San Francisco State University, lead author of the study published Monday in the journal Mycologia.


read here

[Ek Kanya]

as if a glowing mushroom wasnt enough, scientists have genetecially altered a marmoset, called 666, to have glowing veins. In what is considered a revolutionary finding, he passed on this modified genetic ability to his offspring!

The first genetically modified primates that can pass their modifications to their offpsring have been created by Japanese scientists.

The marmosets, pictured above, express a green fluorescent protein in their skin. The gene for producing the glow was delivered to the first marmoset embryos via a modified virus. But now that modification method could become unnecessary. One male marmoset, number 666, fathered a child (pictured at right) that also contained the transgenes.

“The birth of this transgenic marmoset baby is undoubtedly a milestone,” developmental biologists Gerald Schatten and Shoukhrat Mitalipov at the Pittsburgh Development Center and Oregon Stem Cell Center, respectively wrote in a commentary accompanying the study Thursday in Nature. “The cumbersome and often frustrating process of making a transgenic animal from scratch need now only occur with founder animals.”

read the full article here

[Saumya]

awesome! what next? we can surely save a lot of electricity if all of us started glowing like this

[vikas]

glowing monkeys! superb! where do you dig out this kind of work!

[Ek Kanya]

Robert Bradford makes these awesome scultures from used toys.

an excerpt from an interview with the artist

-The toys you use are forgotten and abandoned. Is this their chance to get
their own back?!

The shapes and forms that the toys have are as or more important to me than
what they are. If the final object is to work the toys must \'fit in\' do
their job as anatomy hair clothing or objects carried, they cannot be
allowed to get away with too much. I worked part time as an adult
psychotherapist for several years so have learnt quite a lot about things
like the influence odf aspects of childhood and about deprivation and
abandonment - so I suppose I am saying yes to your question. The toys are
getting a second coming, for good or evil they are back, they want more
attention than they have been getting. They want to live longer.

See his work and site here

[ashish]

It might be a coincident but another big coffee chain Starbucks was started in the same year but three people,
English teacher, History teacher and writer.But i think they don't have their outlets in India

[Ek Kanya]

It might be a coincident but another big coffee chain Starbucks was started in the same year but three people,
English teacher, History teacher and writer.But i think they don't have their outlets in India

???

didn't understand the context, sorry...

[ashish]

Sometimes knowledge is shared without any context, without any reference.It was just to share that the year 1971 witnessed the starting of two big shots in coffee Industry.Starbucks was one of them

[Desh Premi]

Sometimes knowledge is shared without any context, without any reference.It was just to share that the year 1971 witnessed the starting of two big shots in coffee Industry.Starbucks was one of them

ok. was Cafe Coffee Day started in India before Barista?

[Ek Kanya]

INTERESTING

Alan Jaras has been shooting light through various creative means. You can see more of his work at Flickr, where is is known as Reciprocity.

Truly inspiational work.

[Ek Kanya]

and the new Pentax KX

[Ek Kanya]

Interesting

Women are buying a lot of Chevy Camaros. And going by the way the car looks, I am not surprised!

According to Autos Canada, it's looking like new 2010 Camaro sales in Canada are splitting the gender divide right down the middle, as in 50-50 in some locations. "Unlike the older versions of the Camaro where you probably had the typical motorhead, male, buyer, this is totally the opposite," says one Canadian Chevy dealer.

[Ek Kanya]

adding to the above post:

Years and years and years ago (like back in the Eighties), we read a study that broke down car ownership by gender. The car most purchased by men? The Porsche 928, with a score of 97% male. Most by women? 69% of the time the ladies bought Nissan Pulsars – you know, those oddball notchback/shooting brake/targa-top modular things that usually came in pink. We mention this because traditionally, muscle cars have aimed at and appreciated by men. In fact, the gender breakdown for the 4th-generation Camaro is 80% male to 20% female. Not anymore.

From AutoBlog

[Vikramjit]

hi..we ve never spoken before..however: more pics of 'Chevy Camaros' be in demand!