It seems like more and more people are getting sick recently! This is definitely not a good thing, especially since everyone, including me, has a lot of work coming up. Taking an extra measure to ensure I don’t get catch … Continue reading
In the true spirit of Valentine’s Day, I ate a lot of chocolate (and chocolate chip cookies) today. Cocoa is made from cocoa butter, a lipid, which we briefly touched upon. Making chocolate is a lengthy and complex process. In … Continue reading
Last week, I was walking out of my dorm when I slipped on some freshly fallen snow and skinned my hands and knees. Since then, I’ve been applying Neosporin to help the scrapes heal faster. I began to wonder how … Continue reading
The top layer of my cell phone cover unfortunately came loose, so I had to use some tacky glue to put it back together. I was curious what was making it stick. When it comes to super glue at least, … Continue reading
I just read an article on how in the summer of 2012, a huge space rock hit Mars, creating a 100-ft crater. We’ve been talking these past two days about bond length and strength, and so this article prompted me … Continue reading
I was pleasantly surprised by the Concept Map assignment. Up until 4 weeks ago, I wasn’t actually that familiar with them (although I had of course used them, without knowing what the term was). Then over Wintersession, while I was here … Continue reading
Looking at the 3D models with Ramachandran angles set really challenged my knowledge of protein secondary structure. I mean, I knew that proteins existed in 3 dimensions and they filled space and they had to be pretty tough in order … Continue reading
Lab on Monday made me realize just how important pH is for bio molecules. I had never before thought that slight changes in physiological pH could have such dramatic effects- even death? It felt to me that this dependence just … Continue reading
First read this really interesting article: http://io9.com/physicist-proposes-a-thermodynamic-explanation-for-the-1507452119 If you’re really interested, here is the original published article: http://www.englandlab.com/uploads/7/8/0/3/7803054/2013jcpsrep.pdf By now, we all have come to intuitively understand why entropy is a matter of probability; for instance, our dorm rooms, no … Continue reading
We have/had to sign up for our favorite biomolecules today and, quite honestly, I really don’t know much about anything except nucleic acids (from research/genetics) and proteins (from cell physiology). So I decided to put in a little research before … Continue reading