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PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:30 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Science is interesting
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It's funny that you should mention "exact" sciences.


Ah, I certainly didn't mean to offend anyone's field of expertise. Exact sciences is a term used at my uni that incorporates anything that has to do with biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics(I might have forgotten one but w/e). I think psychology isn't included because it's still a field that is open to a lot of controversy and still has a long way to go to reach the same level of certainty in their findings that for example physics has.

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Don't forget Astronomy, the half-science.


You mean Astrology, the study that links celestial observations to effects on everyday life. Astronomy is the scientific study incorporating basically everything that occurs in space.

I'd prefer if we'd avoid things like that, astrology and other pseudo-sciences. They're called pseudo-science for a reason.


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 Post subject: Re: Science is interesting
PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:58 pm 
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I am almost done with my second semester of Organic Chemistry. It has easily been the most difficult class that I've ever taken and I'll be really freaking glad when it's over, but....

I kind of want to take Biochemistry next semester? Guess I'm a fucking masochist.

Anyone else take organic and suffered as thoroughly as me?

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 Post subject: Re: Science is interesting
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Yeah, I've gotten a shit load of Organic Chemistry this year. I failed the class first semester, so now I have to take a new exam during the vacation. It's solely about reaction mechanisms this semester, and I'm on my way to failing it again.


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 Post subject: Re: Science is interesting
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I am almost done with my second semester of Organic Chemistry. It has easily been the most difficult class that I've ever taken and I'll be really freaking glad when it's over, but....

I kind of want to take Biochemistry next semester? Guess I'm a fucking masochist.

Anyone else take organic and suffered as thoroughly as me?

I've heard talk from pretty much every bio major I know saying that it's the most difficult class. A lot of people fail it.

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Well I haven't failed it...yet! I got a C+ in the first semester but I have a D right now so loool.

I can't wait to pick my classes this year; bio majors get to finally stray off of the allotted path and start specializing. Comparative Animal Behavior and Animal Development here I come!

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 Post subject: Re: Science is interesting
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This is a pretty interesting video.


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Pretty cool, those experiments didn't look too healthy though. It'll be interesting to see how this technology develops.


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 Post subject: Re: Science is interesting
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Does anyone here know numerical integration? via spreadsheets specifically.

My ratio of differences for my Trapezium rule estimate doesn't converge but my ratio for the Midpoint rule and Simpson's rule converge just fine.

Shit's a mystery

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 Post subject: Re: Science is interesting
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I know a bit about numerical integration, I don't work with spreadsheets though. I could try looking into it, but no promises.


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 Post subject: Re: Science is interesting
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Double posting because I read something interesting when studying.

Apparently, only 31% of zygotes survive until birth. That's a pretty small fraction, ain't it? Since miscarriages aren't that common, I'd guess most zygotes die before woman become aware they're pregnant. Dunno, I'm probably just posting this to procrastinate some more.


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 Post subject: Re: Science is interesting
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That is pretty interesting actually.

We just learned a ton about sex determination in all kinds of animals during my Genetics Lecture. Apparently there can be females with XY chromosomes since there's only a tiiiiiny sequence of DNA on the Y chromosome (the Sry gene) and if that gets fucked up then it's WOMEN EVERYWHERE. Same goes in reverse; if there is a person with XX and they somehow got the gene floating around in there then the girl is a dude!

I feel like this is valuable information on the study of transgendered people but idk.

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 Post subject: Re: Science is interesting
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Oh yeah, I remember reading about that as well. I don't think it's usually involved in transsexual cases though, as most of the time there are only psychological manifestations of transsexualism, whereas genetic disorders(also see people with multiple sex chromosomes eg. XXY) have major physical manifestations as well.


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 Post subject: Re: Science is interesting
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Linked by Syobon in unimportant topics.

There's some interesting stuff.

For example:
"Black holes, unlike their common image, do not necessarily suck up all the matter in the vicinity. They can act as "cosmic vacuum cleaners", but not as much as some people might think. The collapse of a star into a black hole is an explosive process, which means, according to Mass-energy equivalence, that the resulting black hole would be of lower mass than its parent object, and actually have a weaker gravitational pull. The source of the confusion comes from the fact that a black hole exists in a space much smaller but orders of magnitude more dense than a star, causing its gravitational pull to be much stronger closer to its surface. But, as an example, were the Sun to be replaced by a black hole of the same mass, then the orbits of all the planets surrounding it would be unaffected."
I didn't know that.

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