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Biochemistry with the Celebrity Stars!

Category: Humor
Posted on: April 14, 2007 11:00 AM, by PZ Myers

I'd watch this.

Hey, can we get a pairing of Celine Dion with Larry Moran?

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Posted by: andyo | April 14, 2007 11:11 AM

Hey! I also have a high-school diploma!

Posted by: quork | April 14, 2007 11:32 AM

The assigned tasks were rather unequal. Isolate a gene vs. solve the folding problem?

Posted by: Glen | April 14, 2007 11:46 AM

I confess I cringed a lot. This may not be a parody. It may be a prediction.

Posted by: Coathangrrr | April 14, 2007 12:10 PM

The assigned tasks were rather unequal. Isolate a gene vs. solve the folding problem?

Well, given his dissertation they probably thought it fair to give him something harder.

Posted by: Science Avenger | April 14, 2007 12:24 PM

Damn Billy Bubba, that science is hard!

This show might actually serve a great social purpose if it could show just how hard science is compared to other activities. Almost all of us can take dance classes and get at least poorly proficient. But we can't all be research biochemists, not even bad ones.

Posted by: Keith Douglas | April 14, 2007 12:39 PM

Actually doing this (admittedly with serious intent and appropriate activities) would be interesting.

Of course, isn't that what PBS does already?

Posted by: Rey Fox | April 14, 2007 1:18 PM

How long have you hated Larry?

Posted by: Mike Haubrich | April 14, 2007 1:30 PM

Pairing Celine Dion would be attractive if you want to have an all-Canada Team, but I am afraid of what they would produce were he to shake her all night long.

Posted by: David Marjanović | April 14, 2007 2:58 PM

LOL!

BTW, the Chinese guy really says "I like men".

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Posted by: bernarda | April 14, 2007 4:17 PM

Moran might have more affinities with Claire Pelletier. I didn't find anything by her on Youtube or Daily Motion, but here is just a sound file.

http://www.esnips.com/doc/3d1cd952-d116-49f2-9ee2-7e52749b874b/Galil%C3%A9o-(Letra-:-M.-Chabot-,-m%C3%BAsica-:-P.Duchesne-y-C.Pelletier)

#11

Posted by: Geoffrey | April 14, 2007 9:35 PM

Check out the old Ealing comedy The Man In The White Suit some time. Joan Greenwood talking polymer chemistry in one of the sexiest voices known to mankind.

#12

Posted by: Greta Christina | April 15, 2007 7:34 AM

Does anyone know if Michael Strahan really did his college thesis on molecular signaling?

And if so, does anyone know if he's single?

#13

Posted by: quork | April 15, 2007 11:53 AM

I am reminded of Denise Richards in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, pretending to be, in her words, "an atomic scientist" (Presumably what real scientists would call a nuclear physicist>. I can't figure out why she didn't win an Oscar for that role.

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Posted by: Ginger Yellow | April 15, 2007 1:02 PM

God that film (the Bond one, not the biochemistry one) pissed me off. It really put the lie to the claim that post-Goldeneye Bond girls were substantial, even feminist roles. Richards's entire job in that film consists of three things:

1) Be the butt of a really crappy sexual pun.
2) Wear a wet shirt.
3) Press a button when Bond tells her to.

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Posted by: ambulocetus | April 15, 2007 6:43 PM

Funny, I didn't think Donny Osmond believed in Biochemistry.

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Posted by: Jud | April 15, 2007 10:16 PM

Oh, Strahan is definitely single, after an extremely public, messy and expensive divorce.

Fortunately, all I care about is what he does on a football field.

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Posted by: Benny Hill | April 16, 2007 8:48 AM

Denise Richards had lines in that movie? I didn't realize that. But there were a couple of things distracting me when she was on screen.

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