Man that thing's horrific. The kindest thing I can say it that it looks like a badly calculated protein folding model.

Ignoring the f:m ratio, so long as it's not permanent I have absolutely no trouble with this. When I was born, there were about 5bn people, now there are nearly 7bn. I've no intention of having more than one or two kids myself, I'd sign up for a while.

There was a Chinese typewriter on display at the Oxford science museum (photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethicsgradient/7120685913/in/photostream) I was quite surprised by how small it was. However, you have to pick up one die, use it and put it back before you can select another character.

I went to the Dorothy Hodgkin memorial lecture last year.. Elspeth Garman showed a few of the sensationalist newspaper clippings with titles like "Boffins send AIDS into space!" IIRC, her research group they were trying to grow crystals of HIV in microgravity in order to work out the protein structure.

Keep your tail out of the way fido!

I think this one is far more impressive : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzga6qAaBA This guy has to get out of the helicopter and crawl along the cables to repair them.

Ketosis makes your breath smell.

Where do the gumballs come out of her?

That's pretty old dudes, look at Kevin Mitnick's business card:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ranh/106709219/

There are way too many people on this planet, I'd happily buy someone a pizza if they put themselves out of action like that.

Before anyone else tries it, the theobromine in chocolate is toxic to birds.

Jew's ear is a type of bracket fungi. It's "just" a mushroom flavoured drink.

What about leap seconds?

I forgot to say though whilst my PhD's in maths and electronics, I can't play the piano in any way shape or form; so he's most assuredly got one up on me.

As above. As a rock climber I freely admit I'm a fat git and really should be ashamed, but even I can do that.