Is Chocolate Poisonous to DOGS?

I read this on Scientific American. I just knew that there is a saying that chocolate is poisonous to dogs. I wonder if I ever fed a dog with chocolate...... Sorry if I had.Anyway, bigger dogs can take a small amount of chocolate. I hope I had given to bigger dogs instead of the smaller ones. ^^

Theobromine is the chemical that causes the reverse effect on dogs. Not just dogs, cats too. Despite of the name, the chemical actually contains NO BROMINE. Weird thing, why do people named it this way. In human, theobromine helps to improve our mood. (I guess that's why chocolate is a popular present on V day) But in cats and dogs, they metabolize theobromine more slowly, and causes the so called "theobromine poisoning". And, dark chocolate or unsweetened chocolate contain larger quantity of this chemical.

Oh anyway, don't think that chocolate do no harm to human body at all. It's believed that theobromine causes prostate cancer.

Teen-ager develops microchip printing technique in bedroom

I was trying to listen to Nanomaterials lecture recording earlier on but the website wasn't working. So, I decided to study the notes and searching for those information from internet, which possibly may be a more effective way of learning (if you're concentrate enough). Then, I came to this page when I was looking for information of STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) .

Brilliant! How can this kid print 50 words on the human hair in his ROOM? It's not even lab!

(I know I blogged a little too much today but I think I want to share this piece of info with you!)

My PRECIOUS.....

Look at this... This is my PRECIOUS...

This is an image of my iron oxide powders from TEM (transmitted electron microscope). I had produced these babies on September 2006 by coprecipitation method. I tried to observe them on SEM (scanning electron microscope) but all I can see is a bunch of blur grey and black image of unknown stuffs (although I know they are iron oxide, but the examiner will not know). This is all because SEM has lower resolution compared to TEM. SEM could be more useful in observing morphology of the samples and good enough for micro size samples as well. So, my mentor being a very nice person as usual sent my samples to TEM room to examine them. And YEAH! Finally we see something.

I haven't really measure the size, yet, you can roughly tell that they're about 10nm!!! But due to some unforseen circumstances, my samples are mixture of nanorods and nanospheres. Weird...

FYI, these babies have very good magnetic properties. They could be magnetized and demagnetized almost instantly.

They're just one of my products. I'll take more pictures of my samples of my FYP and show them here! Hahahaha....

Anyway, I was supposed to write a progress report now but when I sit in front of my pc, I just can't stop clicking my way... I'll stop RIGHT AFTER this blog and continue with the report.

^^