Sunday, January 27, 2008
hey guys! :)
woohoo i think this is my very first post here.
i am supposed to be doing work, but i'm not. shit.
but i agree with sian! let's do sth with our junior class!!
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Bored bored bored!
Hi guys I'm bored. Supposed to be doing Vectors and E-Field tutorials but ummm... We all have our vices. I think we should go find our junior class and force them to treat us to lunch (I think they call it JTS: Junior Treat Senior) then pangseh them. Ok i was kidding about the last part. But yah we should make them feel loved and welcomed! Awwwww. We can engage them in some form of sport like captain's ball or matchmake random people from their class. So fun! Take 5 is coming, maybe can have sprinting competition (Xia Yi represent us all).Ok I am bored. HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAROLD. I HOPE YOUR BALLS FILL UP SOON!
Friday, January 18, 2008
Random photo
Hello! I haven't blogged here for awhile! Was clearing files from my phone and I found this:
WHAT THE HELL ARE PRESIDENT AND DING DOING?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Click to enlarge!
Sunday, January 13, 2008
To all you immoral people...
...who think Mother Theresa deserves to be a saint, read this article by Steven Pinker, one of the greatest linguist ever, and if you can't tell me who Norman Borlaug is after reading it, you are positively immoral.I know the article is pretty long for even the New York Times (8 pages), but you should at least read the first page. I guess some KI people might want to use this article for reference especially if you're doing something on morality, rationalisation or even epistemology, well then you'll have to read the whole thing.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
You don't know songs like I do
Look you can mix modern music with lyrics from Science! I would like to thank this page for the song (you'll get a better quality video too), you can also find the lyrics there, and understand it if you know enough biology.
I used one of this polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine before, and I'll tell you, it saves a lot of hard work. Before there was PCR it was damn difficult to get the DNA you collected to replicate, hence DNA samples were always very, very, VERY precious. It is thanks to PCR that forensic Science is at the high tech level it is today. Now, you can make as many DNA copies as you want from any blood sample, and you can sent it to as many forensic labs you care to name to confirm the DNA match.
Of course to interpret the DNA requires gene sequencing, another tedious process, luckily scientists get round that by just sequencing a few crucial genes, and not the entire DNA.
So for making all our lives easier, and making the world safer, and also causing people to be more honest of whose parents their babies really are, I urge you all to help support PCR. Please they need all the funds they can get before they start R&D on a faster genomic sequencer.
For other biological titbits, watch this:
There's a narrated version here.