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Hopping Mad Leap Year Sale!

By Geoff Gallice from Gainesville, FL, USA (Cane toad portrait)
By Geoff Gallice from Gainesville, FL, USA (Cane toad portrait)
By Geoff Gallice from Gainesville, FL, USA (Cane toad portrait) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Happy New [Leap] Year!

Welcome to 2016! Here’s hoppin’ your holiday was Toad-ally awesome!

This hot, wet weather is sending us a bit hopping mad and brought the toads out in force so they’re lined up in the freezer like frogs on a log.

Since the 29th of February only comes around once every 4 yearsWart should we do? We’ve decided to by celebrate by having a

Hopping Mad Sale

on toads.

For the entire month of February it’s

Buy 3 Get 1 Free!

Hop Hop Hooray!

The last day for despatch of this special is Monday 29th February so hop to it and get your order in before you Froget.

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2 Feb 2016

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Links we love: Miss Vivi’s reproductive playlist on YouTube

By Henk-Jan Kooiman (Adam en Eva) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Have you seen the resources on Miss Vivi’s YouTube channel lately?  All good stuff for the classroom or for brushing up on your knowledge before you launch headlong into a dissection.

Here is the Reproductive System playlist.  If you can’t see the video then click on the link.  Head on over to Subscribe to Dissection Connection on YouTube to hear when I add new content.

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29 Jan 2016

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Just Wash! Awesome video by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Scrub 'em! handwashing poster

Public service announcements don’t need to be sombre and serious.  Even the serious stuff needs a little lightening up.  The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia nails it in this video about the importance of hand washing to the tune of Uptown Funk.  Awesome stuff for the lab safety unit at the beginning of the year especially if you combine it with the Glitter Handwashing Experiment and our free downloadable Hand Washing and Glove Removal posters here.

So, channel your inner Bruno Mars, and don’t believe me – Just Wash!

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20 Jan 2016

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Funny Bone: why if we didn’t laugh, we’d cry (or, where are my hearts??)

So, just when we thought we’d ferreted out all the ways that supply could possibly be interrupted we get thrown another doozy this week.  Mr Vivi duly arrived early to work this morning and threw open the cold room door expecting boxes and boxes of lamb hearts to be waiting for him in there.

What he actually found in there was…… nothing.

So, on the phone to the supplier it was.

It turns out that the wild weather off Melbourne last week that led to a bit of a catastrophe with the Spirit of Tasmania breaking its moorings and smashing up the dock also led to a bit of a catastrophe in the world of The Meat Men.

No ships between Melbourne and Tasmania mean no Tasmanian lamb to the mainland either … or their hearts.  So here we sit, Australia Day and the first day of school almost upon us and we are lamb-less.  It’s un-Australian! #funnynotfunny

And that, Vivsters, is why if we didn’t laugh we’d cry.

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18 Jan 2016