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Dr B Thakker is absolutely the most entertaining microbiologist lecturer.... his lecture was on tuberculosis...

"If in doubt, blame the foreigners.."

"If you think humans are promiscuous, you should reconsider when you think about bacteria....Conjugation in bacteria is quite like sex in humans, if that's what you can call it... "

"Think about it.. this PCR (polymerase chain reaction).. we can use this to make... a thousand copies.. of .. i dunno.. audrey hepburn or something. and it's exponential... 2 to 4 to 8 to 16..."
"God has a sense of humour! Really, i mean... have you seen giant pandas??!!"
"This is a portrait of Saint Roche, the patron saint of the plague. It is set in Naples, but as you can see, the people in the painting aren't very happy. See these people here? they're dying of the plague...they're not enjoying the ice cream and pizza that is often associated with Naples..."
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i absolutely love eccentric scientists..

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still cautious about my unfounded freedom..... when will the negativity really set in? it's like a knife stuck in your abdomen that you're pulling out slowly and gingerly, expecting the jarring, unbearable pain to set in, but... ...slowly, slowly, miraculously, the knife eases itself out nicely and cleanly.. the wound is healed, the scar is formed. and i move on... yesterday's bout was the end of it... ...thank you... you know who you are. we've not done that in a long time. :)

meanwhile, just trying to enjoy glasgow while i can... the last leaves of autumn are falling.