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Bird Respiratory System

The avian lungs are pretty neat, and can be considered an improvement over the typical mammalian lungs.

Avian lungs have air sacs that extend into bones and muscles. The air sacs act as bellows to directly deliver oxygen to sustain the high metabolic rate needed to enable flight.

Below is a picture with better description of the unique avian anatomy:

(Taken at the Jurong Bird Park, Singapore)

Pork + Coca Cola = Lies!!!

What happens when you mix religion fundamentalisms and pseudoscience?

You spread lies to children. It's indeed a load bull of hypocrisy when religions supposed to espouse the divine truth.

There are numerous youtube post on maggots or worms coming out of pork, after being treated (marinated) with Coca-cola. The story paints a negative picture on pork eaters (note: non believers) and gives merits to certain religion that prohibits pork consumption (the believers).

Any type of meat may contain parasites, be they endoparasites or endoparasites. Besides, uncovered meat (especially those bought from butchers in the wet and open market) are exposed to opportunistic flies wanting to lay their eggs. The appearance of maggots is no longer a surprise. Premium butchers that keep their meat covered reduces the likelihood of maggots.

Even if there are fly eggs and parasitic worms in pork, they are killed during the cooking process. Even boiling alone is sufficient to kill. Else why do we bother boiling water before drinking if such parasites remain alive? And no sane person continues to consume meat already infested by maggots. 

Bear in mind, pork consumption is widespread around the world. You don't see people drop dead instantly. Pork is only harmful when it is consumed in excessive amount, as pork is rich in saturated fats and cholesterol, leading to higher risk of getting cardiovascular diseases.

Here is a good discussion carried out by our skeptical community in Facebook: Link

It had a surprising conclusion: Coca-cola appears to be a good ingredient for meat marination. :)

This whole incident disgusts me how ignorant people resort to ignorance to spread falsehood in the name of promoting their belief. They rather twist facts and evidence only to further their imaginative cause.

Lastly, could haters probably are harbouring jealously towards bacon haters?

Here's something for haters to increase their hatred:

Bill Nye: Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children

The tittle sums up my sentiment.

I may have nothing against people believe in religion, but I have a HUGE issue with people indoctrinating children with the sky-daddy that they believe.

Such indoctrination is most certainly harmful to the developing mind of children. Indoctrination encourages children to just accept statements as fact, to deny evidence, and most importantly to kill of questioning or simply being curious.

Such is the toll to human capital that most adults do not comprehend basic sciences nor are they capable in explaining or conveying scientific knowledge to the masses. Instead, most adults are more likely swayed by pseudoscience or whatever mumbo-jumbo that their religion believes in.



The worst part has to do with science teachers themselves. Till today I still hear horror stories about school teachers refusing to teach evolution. Some teachers state publicly to the students that they are supposed to teach evolution, but they won't accept it.

Samsung's creativity

Samsung recently posted an advertisement, espousing the company's creative team in designing the Galaxy SIII.

However, the timing of this advertisement was really bad as the next day Apple was awarded more than USD 1 billion for slavishly copying Apple's design and patents. Link.

Here is the original ad:



And here is a parody made by someone on Youtube: