World’s Strangest

Where does Charlie Sheen get his tiger blood from? Not just any tiger will do. Sheen needs a source with an already mangled biochemistry, as Seth Patrick illustrates. Link via Popped Culture

There’s a lot of fascinating things about molecular biology (I should know, I have a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology) – but a lot of students get discouraged from learning it because it is taught poorly in school. To be fair, the topic is rather complex – if you don’t get the basics right, [...]