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Could have been posted here as a spoof

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7883945/Get-on-your-bike-and-use-your-noggin-say-scientists.html

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Quote: victor nicholas

Could have been posted here as a spoof

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7883945/Get-on-your-bike-and-use-your-noggin-say-scientists.html

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Now that's using the old noggin!

Interesting article.

I'd better ask my daughter to bring my bike back!!

Now I've got a question for my hubby when he gets home.
Thinks he's so bloody clever.

If he knows what 'noggin' is I'll go jump in Lake Erie!
(Don't start cheering ! I can swim!)

Biochemists and Chemists are a weird bunch (I should know) they give things some strange names on purpose - sometimes insired by function or the shape of the molecule.

There is of course the famous ARSOLE which is an Arsenic atom incorporated into a five-membered Pyrrhole (don't ask! could be a cats arse if you wanter to pronounce it that way) ring.

If the Arsenic is incorporated into a six-membered Benzene ring it becomes Benzarsole and I believe if in some way six of these structures are combined together it becomes Sexibenzarsole.


The E.coli found in the gut has a gene called FucU.


You might not know it and nor might he but the wise man who gave Jesus Myrrh (Commiphora pyracanthoides) was giving him quite a bit of Commic acid - nothing whatever to do with a sense of humor. Shove that with some LiAlH4 it gets reduced to Commical(dehyde)


If any of the articles here make you sick then you need the anti-emetic Domperidone - nothing to do with champagne although it could handle the effects of too much.


I contributed a few strange and also fictitious molecules to a chap who has written the definitive book on silly molecule names.

My own favorite was a new metallic element particulrly good for making musical instruments called - Didumdidumdium

I think the words 'Mad Scientists' are 'spot on'.
I believe every word you've written...

After all who named a planet Uranus?????

That's a nightmare when you are teaching a 'unit' on Space with 10 yr. olds.

Also, who named a Canadian City REGINA - (pronounced to rhyme with vagina!!)

Some say tomato, I say tomato

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Quote: Lady Godiva

I think the words 'Mad Scientists' are 'spot on'.
I believe every word you've written...

After all who named a planet Uranus?????

That's a nightmare when you are teaching a 'unit' on Space with 10 yr. olds.

Also, who named a Canadian City REGINA - (pronounced to rhyme with vagina!!)

Some say tomato, I say tomato

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Actually I say Toronto

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Quote: Lady Godiva


Some say tomato, I say tomato

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and some of us call them red things termaters, while others leave off the "ter" part and just call 'em maters.