As many of you who have previously read my blog will know, I have a soft spot for Borneo. It therefore gave me great pleasure when my nephew Dan (of reptileexpert.org fame) told me that he would like to carry out the final project for his masters in biological photography at Bako national park, and …
It is not often that I give praise to a drug company, but I will today. Glaxo Welcome Smith Kline (lot’s of merging in the drugs industry) has announced that it is making their database of 13,500 chemicals that have been shown to act against the plasmodium parasite (which causes malaria) publicly available. It is …
Just been playing with google, here is an update of the countries I’ve visited at some point in my life. visited 34 countries (15.1%) Create your own visited map of The World 34 + 2, Hong Kong and Macau are not on the options list, I guess that they count them as part of China, …
Hoorah, I got to see me some Orang Utans!
I spent two days at Bako national park and did three of the trails. I love walking through the rain forests and had been looking forward to visiting Bako for a long time. Getting to Bako is pretty easy, you just take the number 6 bus from Kuching (2 RM, one hour) to Bako; once …
Now the problem with buying a rabbit is that you never know whether to give it a carrot or to stick it in a pot!
It is somewhat of a trek to get to Gunung Gading national park on a day trip. First you need to either get a taxi or bus to the express bus terminal on the edge of town; the taxi will cost 15 to 20 MYR whilst the bus costs 1 MYR, I chose the bus …
If you are then I recommend jumping in the pit with this sweetie 🙂 Go on you know that you want to! Deano
What can I say, they’re pigs and they glow! Scientists at Northeast Agricultural University in China are the latest to create green-glowing piglets. The animals have been genetically engineered to express a green jellyfish protein. Researchers say the skills gained will help in the development of medical treatments based on stem cells. Now even I’ve …
This little piggy went glow glow glow all the way home… Read More »