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I love chemistry...my lab partner this semester is a complete slacker who goes on facebook on his phone the whole time and whines at me to hurry up. We had a 100 on most labs till he completely messed up one of those resin titrations by pouring in an extra 50ml of HCl through the buret. I was...

Physics is also counterintuitive, even more so than a lot of biological concepts (which are more counterintuitive than people would assume, even though the calculations are generally trivial). There's this one kid in my program who's pre-med and also interested in neurology. He's Asian and...

This is kind of unrelated to the thread but MIT has a bunch of really good lecture videos up. Eric Lander, who is known for his role in sequencing the human genome and who's a good teacher to boot, has a bunch of neurobio lectures on there. There are some good chemistry ones up too but those...

The downsides to being a biologist versus a physicist are 1) physics, sort of like proverbial "rocket science", gets more awe and respect, based on the fact that more people fail high school physics 2) the smell of the fucking autoclave

Linus Pauling, maybe? Nevermind....didn't catch the link before...

It's funny you say that about physics, I have biology professor who, whenever you ask him a question he can't answer, he just says, "it's a physics thing", even when it clearly isn't, as a joke.

Srsly... Hard to do a punnett square for eye color, tho.

Close...it's one copy of each gene, each gene has two alleles, except in the case of men on the sex chromosomes. I know, it's confusing. What's worse is the "distinction" between sister chromatids and chromosomes. It took me a few weeks to work that one out. That or when they give you this...

Yes, and it's important to remember that the genes that code for things you can't see are often a lot just as important as the ones that code for the visible phenotypes, in terms of function and viability. What's really fascinating is how X-linked traits work. Men are more often colorblind not...

Sorry, I still didn't address part of that question. Every gene has one allele from mom and one from dad. So every gene is already "mixed". Crossing over just recombines what's already mixed, to form even more novel combinations.

I think I just answered this question on my genetics test. Basically, what's getting mixed up is the sequences of codons. But genes are just sequences of codons. Usually, an entire gene or set of genes "crosses over" during homologous recombination. And most genes have, in humans, something...

Interesting thread... but Lamark is still wrong. Acquired characteristics are not passed down genetically, which was the focal point of his theory of evolution. A gamete's genes can acquire new characteristics that the parents didn't contribute to it (called "non-parental" or "recomibinant"...

Well, if you really want to do the world a favor, having kids isn't the best avenue... any way you look at it... There are plenty of people with kids who aren't annoying. But I remember Park Slope in Brooklyn, omg, I used to want to shoot those people.

Ha...the only solid state chemistry Mark E. Smith of the Fall has ever done is the kind involving amphetamine salts.

Well, the women who do that (and it's not always women, I've heard men say this shit too), aren't imparting wisdom they believe they've incurred from their "twats stretching" (although apparently this is what childbirth primarily amounts to in a lot of men's minds). The reason why these women...

It's snowing again. Quite hard, too. That's it, I'm applying to medical schools in Utah and North Carolina.

this reminds me of the episode of Always Sunny in Philadelphia when Dee sleeps with that white rapper and can't tell if he has Down Syndrome or not... Edit: Cocaine Cowboys 2 is pretty good, as well...

It's actually difficult to overdose on stimulants unless you inject them. The most common culprits in ODs are invariably CNS depressants (alcohol, opiates) and benzodiazepines, which when mixed kill a large percentage of those who don't have a high tolerance for them and even quite a lot of...

We've had that here for a long time...it's called bathtub crank.

Good post. I see that the worse than cliched, worse than trite, worse than shallow SCIENCE=RELIGION rhetoric is all over this thread. God bless HMLT but that's the worst, most illogical load of tripe you're ever going to hear. And sadly, I remember when I used to think maybe there was...