Looking for satisfactions?

A colleague of mine ended his doctorate in biology and disgusted left research immediately after. He couldn’t cope anymore with the feeling of instability he got in the last years from his job.  He was worried research could not permit him to have a family one day. He was worried research could have left him on the road without any possibility to take back the situation in his hands. He was worried his expertise could have had no value in the future. 

Google celebrity list

Let’s give things their right order of importance (Google contacts is an objective way to do it):

Jesus 150,000,000
Steve Jobs 141,000,000
Iphone 120,000,000
George W Bush 85,900,000
Global Warming 83,400,000
Paris Hilton 81,500,000
Bill Gates 63,100,000
Darfur 19,100,000
Berlusconi 13,400,000
Prodi 13,200,000

Loranablog 898

Damn’….

It is JC word:

[0:11:03] Why should you want to know?
Don’t you mind about the future…
Don’t you try to think ahead.
Save tomorrow for tomorrow
Think about today instead.

[JC, Jesus Christ Superstar]

I giornali “di sinistra” italiani pagati dalla carta di indebitamento Barclaycard

Posso capire che sul Corriere della Sera capeggi la pubblicita’ della Banca Mediolanum, come posso capire che sul Manifesto si pubblicizzi il piccolo prestito della Confides. Ma che la Repubblica e l’ Unita‘ (!) siano occupate dalla pubblicita’ della carta di credito revolver Barclaycard, beh, questa e’ una vera vergogna, in quanto incitamento all’ indebitamento per una fascia della popolazione (quella di sinistra) storicamente sensibile a problemi di denaro. Al Vaffanculo day bisogna aggiungere il Vergogna day!

Iphone and Darwinism

These pictures represent people camping in a street of Manhattan. From 72 hours they’re day & night in front of an Apple store waiting to buy a mobile phone called Iphone. How is it possible that natural selection did not act on those people? Why our model of society is protecting from extinction those kind of people? Is “Market” such a strong counteracting factor against human development?

Fun & Job: jogging on the Great Wall, international Arabidopsis meeting and night food market. A typical day in Beijing

Or at least this is what we did in the last days in Beijing. It has been an interesting experience. We’ve seen wonderful and exotic places. I met people from Italy during the meeting I didn’t see for quite a long time (did you see the picture of your birthday, Chiara?).

Talking with Gods: any reply in Beijing?

On the second day of our visit in Beijing we went to the wonderful Temple of Heaven. The extremely huge location south of Tienanmen square , the ancient Circular Altar for sacrifices, the talking Echo Wall, the 70 years Door and many other magical and symbolic places pushed us to get in contact with Gods.

The strictly forbidden city – Beijing 2007

Here are the incredible pictures of our daily visit to the famous Forbidden City in Beijing! The file is a biiiig poster of more than 900 Kb, so give it some time to be displayed on the new window that opens when you click here. You can zoom in it to get a better view on the small pictures.

How to survive Beijing: some tricks if you plan to go to China.

Before I forgot my Chinese experience, here are some survival tricks.

1) For every legal public service, in Beijing exists its’ homolog illegal.  Illegal workers shout and put pressure on you to use their service: just ignore them. Illegal ones will not give you receipts, will not assure you obtain what you pay for and you will pay it A LOT more. Legal taxis are yellow and purple (or other bi colours combinations, anyway they always have the taxi light on their roof), legal bus drivers have green logos on their shirts (take care for the line 919 to the great wall, it is easy to get cheated by illegal tour operators), legal bicycle renters will ask you 60 Yiuan per day and 400 Yiuan for caution.

Back from Beijing!

Dear all, after 10 days in Beijing I came back today. Let me recover from the 17 hours flight (with pit stop in Dubai) and from 10 days of Chinese food (it was good, but imagine to go to the Chinese restaurant for 20 times consecutively). Enjoy this first picture in the night market in Beijing: food, books and sex(!), all cheap-cheap