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6.01.2011
Humpday Cram
Once a week I make time to watch an hour or two of current scientific lecture, read a few articles, or research an odd hypothesis to broaden my intellectual horizon. I like the rush of learning. I am not particular about what subject I am looking into either, mostly I tend to be stimulated by things that in all honesty I won't "need" to know.I hear from many that I am a monstrous vat of useless knowledge. *sticks out tongue* Shove it haters. You're just jealous of my huge boobs... I mean brains!
I enjoy astrophysics, quantum mechanics, biology, anatomy of most every life form, archeology, philosophy, cultural history, theology, debates of any kind, sociology... well lets just say there is an infinite list of things that make me say hmmm. lol
I like to think that I surround myself with interesting open minded people that have similar interests. So here is my Humpday Cram. Feel free to dig through it and enjoy.
Big Ideas presents Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology on Quantum Life, how organisms have evolved to make use of quantum effects.
So there was that. About an hour of nerd giggling and odd scientific inside jokes, mixed in with A LOT of really interesting hypothesis and information.
Eyebrow arch 1. That these tiny little bacteria that thrive in hot vents under the ocean make up 30-40% of the biomass of the ENTIRE Earth. That's right folks. All the life on Earth= 100% these tiny little organisms make up 1/3 of the life on our planet. I know right?
Eyebrow arch 2. The scientific explanation for photosynthesis. Not the lame American grade school version= the process in plants that turns light into food, Nope, I got a real freaking explanation. The actual way the Exciton hops through the molecules to get to the reaction center and make energy... I am clapping my hands at this point in the video. Yes I was excited to get a real grasp on the inner workings of some silly little bacteria, that lives kilometers under the ocean, sliming up the side of a hot vent.
Eyebrow arch 3. The bird beak with magnetite in it. Seriously.. wow. Very cool little doohickey those pigeons have... but can anyone tell me why in the hell do they smack into buildings doing mach 2? The experiments they did proved that the magnetite helps them figure out which way the field is orientated but not which direction is north and south.. they need green or blue light photons to know that... And we call them bird brains.
Eyebrow now stuck to my hairline at this point: The mechanisms of the olfactory senses... How exactly our brains perceive over ten thousand scents but only has 400 (ish) kinds of receptors. The hypothesis that we smell by using a lock and key mechanism (a molecule locks into a receptor and we determine the scent by which lock was stabbed) and also with the added bonus that receptors measure the vibration of molecules... phonon assisted tunneling. Chemicals that have the same key shape should in theory smell exactly the same, but they differ. This is because when a chemically equivalent molecule (the same shape but different weights and vibrations) fits in a receptor... but when stabbed into the "lock" they vibrate at a different frequency allowing the receptor to decide which molecule it is in fact sensing.
I know.. My big nerdy eyes are huge at this idea too.
I ran across this article that reminded me of the movie I am Legend. Really innovative ideas but sufficiently creepy at the same time.
Then I saw this video, It is about protesters tearing into a Potato crop field in Belgium. They are there banging their drums and stomping on spuds because the crop is being genetically altered so that an insecticide is actually produced inside the plant. The insecticide is impossible to wash it off. This is accomplished by inserting genes from the bacteria Bacillus Thuringiensis into the potato. The Institute For Responsible Technology and the Organic Consumers Association have long been concerned about the potential impact this Bt toxin could have on human health. It doesn’t take a hippie environmentalist to realize that these aggressively growing and highly dangerous crops are a threat to every single natural organism on Earth.
Ok well I have to run around and gather offspring and whatnot. Hope you enjoyed nerdy science corner with Raychelle!
Mwah
R
I enjoy astrophysics, quantum mechanics, biology, anatomy of most every life form, archeology, philosophy, cultural history, theology, debates of any kind, sociology... well lets just say there is an infinite list of things that make me say hmmm. lol
I like to think that I surround myself with interesting open minded people that have similar interests. So here is my Humpday Cram. Feel free to dig through it and enjoy.
Big Ideas presents Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology on Quantum Life, how organisms have evolved to make use of quantum effects.
So there was that. About an hour of nerd giggling and odd scientific inside jokes, mixed in with A LOT of really interesting hypothesis and information.
Eyebrow arch 1. That these tiny little bacteria that thrive in hot vents under the ocean make up 30-40% of the biomass of the ENTIRE Earth. That's right folks. All the life on Earth= 100% these tiny little organisms make up 1/3 of the life on our planet. I know right?
Eyebrow arch 2. The scientific explanation for photosynthesis. Not the lame American grade school version= the process in plants that turns light into food, Nope, I got a real freaking explanation. The actual way the Exciton hops through the molecules to get to the reaction center and make energy... I am clapping my hands at this point in the video. Yes I was excited to get a real grasp on the inner workings of some silly little bacteria, that lives kilometers under the ocean, sliming up the side of a hot vent.
Eyebrow arch 3. The bird beak with magnetite in it. Seriously.. wow. Very cool little doohickey those pigeons have... but can anyone tell me why in the hell do they smack into buildings doing mach 2? The experiments they did proved that the magnetite helps them figure out which way the field is orientated but not which direction is north and south.. they need green or blue light photons to know that... And we call them bird brains.
Eyebrow now stuck to my hairline at this point: The mechanisms of the olfactory senses... How exactly our brains perceive over ten thousand scents but only has 400 (ish) kinds of receptors. The hypothesis that we smell by using a lock and key mechanism (a molecule locks into a receptor and we determine the scent by which lock was stabbed) and also with the added bonus that receptors measure the vibration of molecules... phonon assisted tunneling. Chemicals that have the same key shape should in theory smell exactly the same, but they differ. This is because when a chemically equivalent molecule (the same shape but different weights and vibrations) fits in a receptor... but when stabbed into the "lock" they vibrate at a different frequency allowing the receptor to decide which molecule it is in fact sensing.
I know.. My big nerdy eyes are huge at this idea too.
I ran across this article that reminded me of the movie I am Legend. Really innovative ideas but sufficiently creepy at the same time.
Then I saw this video, It is about protesters tearing into a Potato crop field in Belgium. They are there banging their drums and stomping on spuds because the crop is being genetically altered so that an insecticide is actually produced inside the plant. The insecticide is impossible to wash it off. This is accomplished by inserting genes from the bacteria Bacillus Thuringiensis into the potato. The Institute For Responsible Technology and the Organic Consumers Association have long been concerned about the potential impact this Bt toxin could have on human health. It doesn’t take a hippie environmentalist to realize that these aggressively growing and highly dangerous crops are a threat to every single natural organism on Earth.
Ok well I have to run around and gather offspring and whatnot. Hope you enjoyed nerdy science corner with Raychelle!
Mwah
R
5.31.2011
PSA : Towels... More dangerous than you think.
Yep it is. It's Tuesday which means raid night. I will be ignoring my adoring interwebz followers for a raincheck death in ICC. I had planned on blogging tonight but this is what you folks are getting: An extremely brief blur of an update. Here we go.
I have come to the conclusion I am in possession of assassin bath towels. Yes you heard it here people.. the towels are out to get us all. Oh No, don't let the innocent flower placement fool you. This is what happened: I was climbing from the shower all fresh and clean, onto a bath towel (that I carefully placed on the tile) to prevent breaking my fool neck on the ceramic tub. When out of nowhere a rogue wrinkle assaulted my right foots Metatarsal/Tarsal joint with an unprovoked and depraved bulge!
I know.. my hands are still shaking from the trauma... *sighs* I'm considering suing for the PTSD that I am experiencing every time I see a washcloth, hand towel, and paper towel product. How am I supposed to go on like this!?!
I went to the ER under duress... knowing full well there would most likely be at least some paper robes with open backs in my future. The nurses smirked at me as they waved thin cotton sheets and patted the xray table. I gave it all I had and managed to get through it with the most minute amount of screeching and flailing.
The radiologist looked over the films and decided that He "wasn't sure if anything was broken" patted me on the head and sent me home with an ace bandage and pain killers.
Okay well that's it for now I'm late!
Mwah!
R
I have come to the conclusion I am in possession of assassin bath towels. Yes you heard it here people.. the towels are out to get us all. Oh No, don't let the innocent flower placement fool you. This is what happened: I was climbing from the shower all fresh and clean, onto a bath towel (that I carefully placed on the tile) to prevent breaking my fool neck on the ceramic tub. When out of nowhere a rogue wrinkle assaulted my right foots Metatarsal/Tarsal joint with an unprovoked and depraved bulge!
I know.. my hands are still shaking from the trauma... *sighs* I'm considering suing for the PTSD that I am experiencing every time I see a washcloth, hand towel, and paper towel product. How am I supposed to go on like this!?!
I went to the ER under duress... knowing full well there would most likely be at least some paper robes with open backs in my future. The nurses smirked at me as they waved thin cotton sheets and patted the xray table. I gave it all I had and managed to get through it with the most minute amount of screeching and flailing.
The radiologist looked over the films and decided that He "wasn't sure if anything was broken" patted me on the head and sent me home with an ace bandage and pain killers.
Okay well that's it for now I'm late!
Mwah!
R
5.29.2011
I Love My Effen Kids!
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| From left to right~ Gavin, Paetyn, Deven |
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| *Hummm..... Mom mom mom mom mom... pop tart, I wanna pop tart! Mom mom...Hummm....* |
Luckily for them I have invested precious genetic material, resources, and time into the little heathens.So strangling them is not such a great idea. (Side note: I hear it may actually be illegal as well.)
If I ever did decided to terminate them, it would be wise of me (as a mammal) to actually re-ingest all of that hard work... All the vitamins and minerals that I graciously gave them in utero... not to mention the massive amount of resources invested since birth.
But, to be honest I don't eat much red meat.. Before you interject, Yes, I have heard (from some) that they taste more like chicken... they obviously haven't read this article that says it is more like beef.
What?!? If you spent months making a Cheese Nip... then you kept said Cheese Nip safe (from would-be Cheese Nip nappers) for years... you wouldn't just toss it in the trash would you? Of course not.. if someone is going to nom on your Nip it should be you. LMAO
So I suppose if I was feeling extra murdery one day, I could just order this product and fulfill my craving for offspring flesh.
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| Nom Nom Nom |
So... since rendering them to stew isn't a viable option any longer. I do a lot of breathing and counting and finger pointing... If I combine the finger pointing with the classic *mommy has crazy eyes* expression they usually react with the appropriate amount of fear and awe and behave.
That's all for now. Mwah!
Cyb
5.24.2011
Rapture?
Seriously people? Ever been so flabbergasted by someones ignorance that you just wanted to grab their short and curlies and hold them hostage until they listen to reason? No? Okay then just me...
This past month I have been bombarded with billboards on the roadways in my town (Houston, Texas) as well as pages upon pages on the Internet of Rapture nonsense. I have a lot to say about the subject as well as on the "Prophet" that proclaimed a set time and date. Now I could go and recite bible verses that will appeal to the Christian sensibilities that state that no one will know the time that the judgment will come like a thief in the night... But if I recite those verses then I need to also point out that these believers were Christians.
So that may not work. As a matter of fact Most Christians mocked this guy just as much as me. But heres the thing some people didn't. Here is one woman that completely agreed with his prediction and acted out of fear:
And here is a man that believed in the rapture and decided to kill his pets to save them from the wrath of His God:
*Rolls eyes* Wake the FUCK up people.. the world has been ending for a few thousand years already.. I am just about fed up with people crying wolf.. on my roadway billboards... and filling up my damn news pages with silly superstitious blubbering. No there is no rapture.. There is no tooth fairy, no easter bunny, no Santa Claus... no God.. What there is though, is this day, right now. This hour, your life, your children and loved ones..
There is a reason to live without God. So I say to you: Evolve or go extinct. Just stop and think about it for a minute... if you are killing off your offspring for an absentee God ... Who will be left to worship Him once you have eaten a lead salad?
Cyb
This past month I have been bombarded with billboards on the roadways in my town (Houston, Texas) as well as pages upon pages on the Internet of Rapture nonsense. I have a lot to say about the subject as well as on the "Prophet" that proclaimed a set time and date. Now I could go and recite bible verses that will appeal to the Christian sensibilities that state that no one will know the time that the judgment will come like a thief in the night... But if I recite those verses then I need to also point out that these believers were Christians.
So that may not work. As a matter of fact Most Christians mocked this guy just as much as me. But heres the thing some people didn't. Here is one woman that completely agreed with his prediction and acted out of fear:
And here is a man that believed in the rapture and decided to kill his pets to save them from the wrath of His God:
*Rolls eyes* Wake the FUCK up people.. the world has been ending for a few thousand years already.. I am just about fed up with people crying wolf.. on my roadway billboards... and filling up my damn news pages with silly superstitious blubbering. No there is no rapture.. There is no tooth fairy, no easter bunny, no Santa Claus... no God.. What there is though, is this day, right now. This hour, your life, your children and loved ones..
There is a reason to live without God. So I say to you: Evolve or go extinct. Just stop and think about it for a minute... if you are killing off your offspring for an absentee God ... Who will be left to worship Him once you have eaten a lead salad?
Cyb
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