B School

不知為何，凡凡特愛玩石頭，想到商學院那邊有一條走廊很有特色滿滿地石頭遍地，便騎車過了河，轉往 B School 去。

照片是 2004 年剛到學校的頭一天，跟凡凡媽媽像觀光客一樣到處逛，第一次走來這走廊的時候拍的。很喜歡這條走廊。


2008 年凡凡第一次來，不過牆上的蔓藤大概是修剪過頭了，沒有之前那麼茂盛。


凡凡高興地玩著地上的碎石子。



碎石頭滾到鞋子裡，凡凡試著自己挖出來不成，情急開始要爸爸幫他用，一急之下石頭都講不出來，只能講「那個那個」。


商學院旁就是學校的體育場跟球場，凡凡看到斜坡先是想要「下去坐著」，越坐越近，之後想到便又開始玩他拿手的「滾滾滾 」了。

重回 Charles River

凡凡吃東西總是在外面吃得比較多，趁天氣好到 Charles River 邊上野餐順便看河上過往的獨木舟及遊艇。 凡凡果然吃得很開心，不過有個壞習慣，沒看到衛生紙，吃完手就往身上衣服擦。


放風箏，凡凡現在還不懂不時要拉一下，風箏才不會掉下來，所以往往風箏在地上的時間比在天空上多。



開始像個長大的男孩，想要爬樹攀高了。

(唇紅齒白小白臉)



腳踏車上的鈴噹是凡凡特愛的玩具。

幾顆雞蛋?

凡凡現在會數數，不過只能數到十，而且會不能自己地想繼續數下去... 就像數自己有幾根手指頭，一邊指一邊數到五，然後還是會繼續念下去到十。

還有凡凡現在很喜歡把任何東西都連起來，說那是火車，連雞蛋也一樣。

A Hot Paper

Doug Melton's new paper raises lots of interests, worldwidely. It was even reported on Taiwan's newspapers. Of course, Harvard wouldn't miss this good PR chance.

Here is the link:
In Breakthrough, Harvard Lab Causes Cells To Change Type

I read this paper this morning after woke up, a very important and well written paper. Authors directly reprogramed cells from one kind to the other without "dedifferentiation", showing possibilities to avoid moral dilemma on using stem cells.

While I like this paper, it reinforces my impression on current stem-cell researches. Similar to alchemy versus chemistry, "stem cell biology" obviously still has a long way to go on the "cell biology" part.

More real cell biologists are required to further advance its frontier .

That's Too Much

No no no, I am not quoting the current-in slogon in Taiwan.

It's about an article I just read, to the idea of equality, not too much, and neither too less.

As a parent myself, I always enjoy reading those children psychology/behavior papers. Here is one I read today by the News@Nature.com.

Children learn rules of equality by age eight. But those with siblings are more selfish than those without.

It's really amazing to witness the whole process how kids build-up those concepts with time.

- the original paper

Fehr, E. , Bernhard, H. & Rockenbach, B. Nature 454, 1079-1083 (2008).

游泳

凡凡這陣子每天洗澡都在澡盆裡嚷著說要游泳，禮拜天天氣特好，便帶著凡凡到泳池讓他去游一游，沒想到真看到了泳池，馬上龜起來說不要游了，最後只好帶他去旁邊淺淺的小孩池讓他玩水。

上次一去羅德島時凡凡還小，甚麼都不懂所以還敢下水游，現在大了知道害怕，反而不敢進泳池了。





應該是真的玩得很盡興，最後換回衣服準備回家時，在池子旁的椅子上睡著了。

掰掰哈囉

凡凡很喜歡看相機裡面自己的影片，特別是把相機翻轉過來自拍的時候，當凡凡發現相機螢幕上的影像是即時的之後，便開始愛現地耍寶了起來。

凡凡白得很快，幾天沒曬到太陽馬上就白了回來，不過這陣子常往外跑，手跟腳還是可以看到明顯的一半牛奶一半巧克力般的兩截膚色。

Gift Book

Jade is flying to Hong Kong starting her own lab soon. Since she is still single and there are tons of bankers in Hong Kong. We decided to give her a book as the leaving gift.

Here it is.


She shall love it, I guess...

打棒球

其實不真的是棒球，而是撞球。

玩了一陣子天空開始下雨了，便進法學院的餐廳裡躲雨。樓上有個小客廳，裡面有平面液晶電視，家庭劇院之類的東西，還有一桌撞球檯，便跟凡凡玩了起來。

照片看起來有模有樣。



「用棒子！」
凡凡一直說玩「棒球」，猜想大概是跟把球竿稱做「棒子」脫不了關係。

凡凡獨特的撞球玩法。

跳石子

在 Science Center 前的噴泉玩水順便休息一下。

凡凡趴在石頭上看停在身旁石頭上的麻雀。

現在長大了一點，凡凡也開始要學著那些大小孩跳石子玩，只是腿不夠長，只能跳相鄰比較近的石頭跳，跳成功了也會 "Yeah~~" 地給自己鼓勵鼓勵。

上學去

凡凡最近多了個小背包，很喜歡看他背著包包，就像是要去上學的小學生一樣，很可愛。


學哈利波特拿了跟魔杖。可惜 ABC 這些字母還不會認，學著大人的樣子，指著字母亂念一通。

TGIF

Yeah~ I know today is all for the Olympics, so does the happy hour!

The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper

Madagascar 耶誕節短篇，只有十分鐘，凡凡很愛。

關鍵字

很久沒有到後台看這裡的統計資料，有一項是從搜尋引擎找到這裡的關鍵字統計，不意外裡面包含許多像是 Uri Alon 或 cambridge 這類的關鍵字，但其中還是有一些比較奇怪的關鍵字，讓你第一時間搞不清楚怎麼會連到這裡來。

miss why 白白本名
-> 台中，這個真的很怪。

sylar怎么拿到变身的能力
-> 廣東，你說呢？第二季難看到爆。

tim's group
-> 土耳其，世界上應該不只一個 Tim 有自己的 group 吧？

劉曉慶 蓮霧
-> 三重，這是連到我解釋為甚麼凡凡還在媽媽肚子裡的時候我們喚他的小名叫芭樂的原因。

台灣嫖客犯法嗎?
-> 三重，這個問題‧‧‧ 結果連到女警釣援交男，被嫌太肥退貨的新聞。

samaire armstrong bad day
-> 這有兩筆, 分別從香港跟內湖連過來。Samaire Armstrong 就是 Daniel Powter 那首有名的 "Bad Day" MV 裡面那個正妹。 I like this MV a lot, so does FanFan.

change, we can believe in
-> 三重的朋友，應該是想看 Obama，結果連到 Tim 選 president 的那篇。

aisle 4, row 8, seat 113
-> 從北卡連過來，目的地是那篇悲慘的小熊球迷的故事。

how to use itune -> 從紐澤西連過來，結果連到用 itune 整理 paper 那一篇，大概不是他想要的東西。

marc kirschner 怎么样 / marc kirschner 牛 / marc kirschner 牛人 -> 從維吉尼亞連過來的，大概真的很喜歡 Marc 吧。不過如果他看完了 Marc 那部影片，不知道會不會改變想法？

i like the way you, put your hands up in the air, i like the way you, shake your hair, i like the way you, like to touch, i like the way you, stare so much, but most of all.... yeah.. most of all.... i like the way you move.....
-> 馬里蘭的朋友，幾乎把整首歌的歌詞都拿來搜尋了，很明顯是連到 Body Rockers 的 I love the way 這篇。不過凡凡比較喜歡馬達加斯加裡的改編版本。

ivy hung abnova taiwan corporation
-> 在休士頓的人查尋連過來的，當然是連到我之前拿到免費 free sample 的文章。

are you thinking of becoming a scientist
-> 廣西，I am not so sure now...

晚上不可以剪指甲
-> 馬來西亞，應該是連到凡凡爸爸的外婆說晚上不可以剪指甲跟頭髮，會把人的精氣剪掉，人會死翹翹的文章。

紅襪第七局唱的歌
-> 俄亥俄，Take me out to the ball game，不過通常大家有興趣的是八局唱的 Sweet Caroline！

I Like To Move It

雖然我覺得 Madagascar 不好看，不過凡凡特別喜歡裡面這首 I Like to Move It, Move It。常常會主動講說要聽 "move it move it"。 邊聽邊看邊跳舞；反而對原曲還沒有那麼感興趣。

I Like To Move It, Move It - Madagascar


Sacha Baron Cohen - I Like To Move It
I Like To Move It Move It \ I Like To Move It Move It \ I Like To Move It Move It \ Ya Like To (MOVE IT!)

All Girls All Over The World \ Original King Julian Pon Ya Case Man! \ I Love How All The Girls A Move Their Body \ And When Ya Move Ya Body \ Uno Move It \ Nice And Sweet And Sexy Alright! \ Woman Ya Cute And You Don’t Need No Make-Up \ Original Cute Body You A Mek Man Mud Up \ Woman Ya Cute And You Don’t Need No Make-Up \ Original Cute Body You A Mek Man Mud Up \ Woman! Physically Fit \ Physically Fit \ Physically Physically Physically \ Woman! Physically Fit \ Physically Fit \ Physically Physically Physically Physically

Woman! Ya nice Sweet Fantastic Big Ship Pon De Ocean That A Big Titanic
(Chorus)

Woman Ya Cute And You Don’t Need No Make-Up \ Original Cute Body You A Mek Man Mud Up \ Eyeliner – Pon Ya Face \ A Mek Man Mud Up \ Nose Powder – Pon Ya Face \ A Mek Man Mud Up \ Pluck Ya Eyebrow \ Pon Ya \ Pon Ya Face A Mek Man Mud Up

Gal Ya Lipstick \ Pon Ya Face A Mek Man Mud Up \ Woman Ya Nice Broad Face \ And Ya Nice Hip Make Man \ Flip And Bust Them Lip \ Woman Ya Nice And Energetic Big Ship Pon De Ocean That A Big Titanic \ Woman! Ya Nice Broad Face And Ya Nice Hip Make Man Flip And Bust Them Lip \ Big Ship Pon De Ocean That A Big Titanic – WOAH!

BOP! WOAH! BOP! WOAH! BOP! WOAH! BOP!

(King Julians Bit On The End:)

I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT \ HE LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT \ SHE LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT \ YOU LIKE TO, MOVE IT! \ WE LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT \ YOU LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT \ I LIKE .. OH I DID I HAVE I DONE I? DID I DO I LIKE? \ I THINK I DID I LIKE.. \ WE? WHAT ABOUT WE? THEY? THEY? I DID THEY.

OH I GOT IT, I GOT IT I GOT A NEW ONE I GOT A NEW ONE.. THEM? \ NO NOT THEM.. DID I SAY THEM OR NOT? \ THEM LIKE TO MOVE IT MOV... I'M GONNA SAY THEM \ THEM LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT \ WE LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT \ UMM WAIT THERES GOTTA BE ANOTHER ONE WE... WE... NOPE.. OH US! \ CAN WE DO US LIKE TO?

US LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT THATS THE ONE \ US LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT \ US LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT \ US LIKE TO.. MOVE IT! \ MOVE IT! MOVE ITTT.. MOVE IT! MOVE IT! MOVE IT MOVE IT

OKAY THEN, WANNA HEAR, I JUST WANNA TELL YOU A LITTLE STORY THIS LITTLE STORY THAT MY DADDY USED TO TELL ME HE WAS A KING AS WELL I WAS BORN, PROBABLY ABOUT 68 YEARS AGO OVER BY THAT TREE OVER THERE YEH AND I REMEMBER THINGS CHANGED A LOT IN THOSE
DAYS, IN MADAGASCAR IT WASNT SO COMMERCIAL, YOU KNOW, THERE WASNT ALL THE FUSS BOUT WHO'S GOT THE LATEST TREE AND WHAT LEAVES ARE YOU WEARING AND WHO'S GOT \ THE LATEST FUR ON THEIR BACK YOU KNOW, THOSE DAYS IT WAS JUST ME AND A COUPLE OF THE OTHERS YOU
KNOW, DOING THE JUNGLE BOOGIE YOU KNOW, JUNGLE BOOGIE... JUNGLE BOOGIE \ WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH

I LIKE TO MOVE IT!

YOU REALLY THINK THIS IS NEVER GONNA END COZ IT IS 3,2,1

NOT BAD EH? I LIKE IT

Dilute with Water Only !

From the Woods Hole Physiology course ...

燕京

眼看天快下雨了，便帶著凡凡慢慢往家的方向走著，經過常上台灣新聞的燕京圖書館。

凡凡開始跟門口的石獅子玩了起來，拿著球往石獅子底座的空隙扔，想讓球穿過去，一直喊著「過隧道」，因為常玩火車的關係，現階段只要是穿過某個洞的動作，凡凡都叫做「過隧道」。


凡凡今天走嘻哈風，背個小背包，就像是上學的小朋友。

MCB Department

MCB Department，James Watson 以前待過的系，歷史輝煌。著名的 Icon 是門口的大犀牛，許多人都喜歡與她合照。

凡凡背後那隻就是了。凡凡的側影，看得出來有點小「摳陶」。

當然也要合照一下。

MCB 的正門也很有特色，門框裡有各式各樣生物的浮雕，凡凡看得很高興，一直講著他認識的水母蝴蝶跟蜜蜂。


MCB 另外一個特色就是大樓上方也刻有各種動物的圖樣，正面是一群大象。


凡凡想爬上犀牛站的高台，凡凡看著高台，「沒有樓梯可以上去」，還會自己說「凡凡加油」。本來心想這麼高一定不可能，沒想到還真的差一點就讓凡凡爬上去了，真是不容小覷。


每到一地，自然不會少了凡凡必玩的滾滾滾，找了個斜坡又開始滾起來了。

只是現在自己一人滾不過癮，非得要人陪他一起「從上面滾滾滾下來」才可以。

沙灘

凡凡喜歡玩沙，常嚷著要去海邊沙灘玩。

不過氣象預報說下午會有雷陣雨，想說不好出遠門，便帶著凡凡到 MCB department 的中庭，那裡有個沙灘排球場地，湊和一下也算是去沙灘玩了。


Let's Go REDSOX!


把腳埋在沙裡。

South Park - Evolution

It's been a long, busy, and tough week. Let's have some fun to start the weekend.