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Exams over.
Life can resume.
I will be posting again.
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Explore the human microbiome
Our bodies contain roughly ten times as many bacteria, fungi and other microscopic organism than human cells! This interactive guide by Scientific American gives you a brief tour.
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Facebook's $95bn evaluation could fund NASA for 5...
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thesmolderingscreen asked: You mentioned your interest in the bases of consciousness and this is something that I too am fascinated by. Do you have any interest in philosophy of mind? I would recommend reading writers like Nagel and Searle, who have proposed some hard-to-dispute ideas about the inaccessibility of consciousness/subjectivity to science. E.g. even if we knew exactly which neurons lead to seeing the color red,...
Thank you...
…to the 13 people that wished me luck with my exam. It went quite well… apart from the question that was like ‘draw a triple-axis neutron spectrometer’. I’m more of a theory guy so find stuff like this a bit uninteresting and so I just drew something from imagination and called it a triple-axis neutron spectrometer. Maybe I’ll get marks for creativity?
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gothboygirlhorror asked: what are you going to study in grad school
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centralscience asked: in regards to olber's paradox: as I understood it, the reason why the sky is black is that even though there are stars at any point in the night sky, the light coming from them has been redshifted out of the visible range and into the IR or microwave range. I don't know if you were implying that, but I'm just curious =]
