Thanks for the 30000th pageview!

This is just a short message to the readers of the blog from all over the world, from Georgia to New Zealand, through Philippines, Argentina, Egypt, and of course the USA, Canada and Great Britain... Thanks for viewing the blog, I hope you like it, and I hope to get some encouraging feedback (maybe even some straightforward criticism) to keep on going with this comic strip project for long (besides my scientific and housewife activities)...

Biological Christmas Presents - for Molecular Biologists

Continuing the series started last year with Chemical Christmas Presents, I'd like to wish all readers of this blog Merry Christmas with this drawing representing some ideal and nice Christmas presents for (female) molecular biologists. (Maybe these models could be realized and eventually included in Sigma catalogue or whatever.) I have just realized that I must have been a little bit boring during this autumn (I made lots of  'repetitive' comic strips, i.e. series, because I was quite busy and had not too much time to prepare creative, complicated drawings and realize my other, more sophisticated ideas)... Sorry for it, and so I tried to improve the blog in December with plenty of new ideas and comic strips in order not to deceive my followers and dear readers...
P.s. If you are really interested and tempted - I have just got the information that a Swedish company produces such jewellery...

Scientific setting up of the Christmas tree - part II. Geographers

The next comic strip in this series... This time it is about geographers... And yes, I know exactly why and how scientific partners can be annoying as hell...

Scientific Christmas Greeting Card for Taxonomists

Here is the Christmas Tree set up in a taxonomy lab... I hope many taxonomists will use it this year as greeting card to their colleagues. (This is the reason why I posted it so early on the blog...)

Scientific Setting up of the Christmas Tree - Part I. Taxonomists

This year seems to be a year for comic strip series... I start another one specially dedicated to Christmas and how different scientists prepare themselves for it. The first one is about taxonomists. After having found this idea, I have checked if someone else already put a comic strip about it to the internet and I found this comic strip I liked a lot. (But I want to stress that I was not inspired by it, I only discovered it after having prepared my comic strip.) And I'll also show you the result of the work in the next comic strip...

Scientific wine tasting part V. The literateurs

After chemists, biologists, physicists and physicians, I continue the series... Well, literateurs are probably reciting poems like "Praise of Bacchus" (God of wine in Roman mythology) by Anacreon, and then discussing the accuracy of the traduction done by Thomas Stanley in 1651 - while enjoying a bottle of wine. I just decided to make this cartoon because my Dad and brother were seriously discussing a poem last time we had a meal together... (They tried to recite it, my Dad claiming that he is unable to memorize it, my brother proving once again his fantastic brain/memory capacity by doing it, although it is not a world-famous poem of a world-famous poet, just a poem with very deep thoughts he learned some 20 years ago. And no need to add - none of them are literateurs, they learn poems just for fun...)

The Scientific Christmas Tree...

Preparing for Christmas, we started to discuss the 'Christmas Tree Issue' with my hubby yesterday... So here comes a comic strip about how scientists can be difficult in some things and their choices, so how difficult it can be to live with us... (Some self-irony again...) One more thing, I do not want to be politically correct and use Obama's Holiday Tree expression, I am rather on Ben Stein's opinion on this issue... One last thing to be mentioned... I have observed that my blog has highest pageviews in September and December. I was wondering a lot about the reason of that, and I guess(ed) that in September many scientists were looking for safety signs and they found my comic strips related to them and their interpretation. Similarly, around Christmas my comic strip entitled Christmas (New Year's Eve) party at the lab - safety signs... was viewed a lot. So these are my most popular comic strips I think... But then comes the dilemma: shall I prepare comic strips to increase my pageviews and get more popular, or shall I produce comic strips I like myself or I can produce at the moment... Well, I think popularity is and was never very important for my life, I'll do it my way as usual...

Baby names for historians (ancient history, Egypt, Babylonia, Sumer)

Another one of this series this time. A little bit busy otherwise at the moment to prepare other, new, more creative things. maybe next week.