So I didn’t get a ticket to see it in the auditorium, but I was in the next room watching on the big screen.
Actually it was pretty great. Great atmosphere and they had the Q&A session in our area.
It was a great day!
Guess who got their GAMSAT results yesterday? And guess who received enough marks to apply for medicine?!
OK, so it’s not a high mark, but definitely a lot better than I had expected. I was expecting in the low 40s, but I scored enough to apply for some medical schools. Since I was not expecting this, I missed all the information sessions at all the universities. I don’t think I will get a high enough mark to get an interview, but I am going to apply anyway so I get the experience and practice of doing it for next year.
Pat on the back for me :D
Did you know…
A domino can knock down another domino around 1.5 times its size? So what, you say? Well, watch this video and find out how a slight tap could literally knock down The Empire State Building.
Go physics! I like building dominoe chains…
My fabulous windowsill garden is looking fabulous!
I actually picked some off tonight as part of dinner. It’s a bit bitter, so I will need to water it more. Also it needs to grow a bit too! haha
But yay! I can grow things :D
Mapping the Wonder Inside Every Cell
Behold the biochemical pathways of the cell. For decades, these wall charts have adorned the hallways and laboratories wherever biochemists are at work. They are at once both reference and art.
The version pictured above (click here for the holycraphuge version) is state of the art, a subway map of interacting pathways, intersecting reactions, and a road map for the journey to make any building block our cells need. Each node is an enzyme or product, separated by color into metabolic subdomains. You really must head over to KEGG and play with the interactive version, where each dot comes alive, an interactive chemical structure.
I’m also a big fan of Gerard Michal’s legendary wall charts of yesteryear. Watching the evolution in design from his 1974 version to a later 1993 map, his layouts are chock full of vintage German aesthetic.
Wow. So glad I only need to know a very small portion of this for the semester :D
AnonymousOoops. Don’t know how long this question has been sitting there. Sorry.
I don’t think the movie is coming to Australia. Or if it is, it has yet to have a release date.
Oldest Mayan Astronomical Calendar Discovered
The oldest-known version of the ancient Maya calendar has been discovered adorning a lavishly painted wall in the ruins of a city deep in the Guatemalan rainforest.
The hieroglyphs, painted in black and red, along with a colorful mural of a king and his mysterious attendants, seem to have been a sort of handy reference chart for court scribes in A.D. 800 — the astronomers and mathematicians of their day. Contrary to popular myth, this calendar isn’t a countdown to the end of the world in December 2012, the study researchers said.
“The Mayan calendar is going to keep going for billions, trillions, octillions of years into the future,” said archaeologist David Stuart of the University of Texas, who worked to decipher the glyphs. “Numbers we can’t even wrap our heads around.”
Ooo. I saw this in the free paper today on the way home. I’m going to put it out there and say those who believe that the world will end this year are probably thinking that this was announced in a strategic time. I personally don’t think it is predicted that the world will end this year. I have so much planned for next year. Can’t stop now :D
Everything that is bad. I have a test tomorrow and I am so sick of remember enzymes and what they do and what cofactors they use and their substrates and products and how it connects with other biochemical pathways. It’s such a bitch!
OK, enough complaining. Bed time for an early wake up for last minute cram :)
