Sunday, October 11, 2009

Alternative protein source

Beef, chicken and pork are too expensive? Get bored of eating meats?
Maybe you should try insect based food, in future.
Entomophagy, the practice of eating insects as food had occurred from time immemorial in Africa, America, Asia as well as Australia. In China there are a variety of preparation of these edible insects, by frying, braising, stewing, stewing after frying, boiling and roasting. The forms of insects eaten are from eggs to adult, but mostly are larvae or pupa. There are also records of medicinal uses of insect from the ancient China, which are practiced to date. As what i know the examples are centipede (蜈蚣) and scorpion.
Edible insects are of current research interest.
How do you feel if insects will be introduced to your meal? I think it is acceptable, especially crispy fried insect should be not too bad, as long as they are not living crawling ones or the disgusting cockroaches !

(Source : Entomological research,
Volume 39, Issue 5, 2009)

Teacher


By the way, i would like to be an educator scientist rather than just a scientist that sits in the lab and does experiments all day long. I like to speak in front of audience as a teacher, but the contents are always limited to informative facts, like science. There's no any prejudice, but just because i am very very poor in telling and elaborating story, thus i won't be a good language teacher.

TEACHING is FUN too !!

JIALI'S Discovery Channel---Opening Speech


This is a channel different from JIALI'S World.
Here are the issues and views about academic and scientific world.
As an scientist-to-be, i have to train myself to do more readings on scientific papers. Most of the time, i know, it's really bored, but sometimes these scientific discovery and intervention would be very inspiring! So i would like to share with u my learning diary here, hope u will enjoy it.
English is purposely chosen, also to train my English literacy, i hope it won't bored you.

LEARNING is FUN !!