Freshly out of the shower, I walked across campus this morning with my hair still wet. In the sub-0°C air, my hair froze almost immediately. I entertained myself thinking about the hydrogen bonds I broke and allowed to re-freeze as … Continue reading
Hi all, I also thought it was great that food has been a central topic in many of these blogs! To continue with the trend, I decided to focus on one of my favorite dessersts: meringues. I was out in … Continue reading
So in my blog today I’m not going to be covering necessarily a biochemistry concept in terms of covalent bonds or interactions or pKa’s or the like, but rather a process that we all got familiar with on Wednesday night … Continue reading
I unfortunately have to admit that I have never seen a diamond melt, and I’m not sure I’ll get a chance to witness such an event. However, with all the snow flurries today, we can all say that we have … Continue reading
I think one of the concepts we had this week that was most interesting to me was our discussion of water, often known as the “universal solvent” or the “solvent of life”. This is, in my opinion, a very true … Continue reading
There is so much overlap between my microbiology class and biochemistry! We recently read a paper about the changes made in gut microbiomes as diets change between vegetable-based and animal-based, including microbial genes coding for amino acid synthesis molecules that … Continue reading
Today, we were curious about what nanopure water would taste like, since it’s free of ions, and asked Professor Oakes for her opinion. She informed us that it is very dangerous to drink nanopure water – apparently, they would place … Continue reading
I consider myself a lover of tea. Since I was a child, tea has been a big part of my rewards system and my friendships with others. A while back, my friend introduced me to honey citron tea, a traditional … Continue reading
As I was eating cheese today, I wondered how cheese is made and what is the difference is in the chemically of soft cheese vs hard cheese. After researching a little, what I read was a little traumatizing… Let’s just … Continue reading
Now we have a more interactive and user friendly blogging site, where you will be able to see immediately what your fellow classmates have blogged about and assign categories or searchable tags to your blogs. I hope you like it.