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When my iPod dies and I'm on the train I still keep my headphones on for the same reason. Unless I'm on the train that only seats doubles and I'm next to a cute girl - then I get her numba :cool:

In the lab we use some unnatural ones, and then work on modifying those, but last year one of the courses I took showed how they are currently incorporating unnatural amino acids into cells, and choosing specific codons to code for these novel AAs. Also, as everyone can express 64 different possibilities, one of the papers and research groups we were told about had incorporated quite a few unnatural ones into being expressed regularly. Oh, and as far as I'm aware they have produced a bacteria in a lab from scratch, although at the moment I'm not sure because I've moved away from that area because it didn't interest me as much as the area I'm currently working in. Yeah, changing what codons code for sparked my interest when I learned about translation. Since the genetic code is redundant, I thought we could potentially alter what some codons code for without damaging the universal code. But then they told me there were only 20 amino acids, so I gave up the idea. So (this is off the top of my head) to change what a codon codes for, you need to alter the according tRNA, right? [spoiler=aside] I'm talking about the clover shaped molecule that has a specific RNA arm which binds to the transcribed RNA on ribosomes and also carries the appropriate amino acid with it. My teachings about how a tRNA molecule "knows" that it's the next tRNA needed to match the transcribed codon was sketchy. I remember hearing something like they all take turns trying to fit their pieces, but that's ridiculously inefficient. There's probably newer, recent studies that explains the process, I'll check it out. If there are only 20 used amino acids, then are there only 20 tRNAs too? As for the bacteria - I know they made a synthetic bacteria genome by combining different genomes across similar species. Or was that in yeast? Looks like I'll be doing lots of research on these things, I'm way too behind in the times.

They contradict each other from their bases. We can and do live together, we don't have much choice, but working together is irrational. Walka's example of God being a life catalyst but not an everyday life controller is Deism, as opposed to theism. The differences between both are apparent when you read old studies about human nature. Before, when God was thought to control everything (Revelation dominates reason), human behaviour was described as "should we be doing this". With the rise of deism, human behaviour was just described (Reason over revelation). Of course they can work together: in both examples your get the same results. It's just a different kind on thinking.

You're blaming scientists? Look, it's almost impossible to publish something that is wrong. Peer-review will weed out any cheaters. Even one of the most famous psychologists, Cybil Burt, was caught to have fudged data and his theories were thrown in the garbage (although after his lifetime). It's not like Darwin published his book and everyone accepted it with open arms - he spent the rest of his life defending it. Generations of physicists tried proving Einstein wrong but all his data and theories were solid, they would not have been accepted otherwise. It would be naive of me to believe peer-review is the perfect failsafe to human mistakes - there will always be problems and cracks in the system. But to go out and attacking such greatly funded and studied things like global warming's effects and evolution based on the scientists work is wrong. If anyone is to blame for overhyping global warming, its the media. There may be an academic scientist or two who blabs false theories to the media but they are always frowned upon for their want of public fame. University scientists/professors (pretty much all those who advocate evolution & global warming) do not have a secret plot to control society by publishing bad data. That's just not how academia works. On the other hand, oil companies have their own scientists with more shaky moral foundations that don't mind being public about their data and formulated theories without any sort of peer review and the public just gobbles it up.

Internet explorer + bing as search engine double fail :thumbdown:

He pretty much wasted everyones time when he could've just as easily moved one of the two on bed 1 to bed 2, which is what ends up happening. Anyways, tonight was my last night in intense studying. One exam and four hour lab left tomorrow then i'm on SPRRIIIIING BREAAAAAAAK!!! :thumbsup:

I think we can all agree that trying to make you understand why your post is so fatally facepalming would be futile. However, I should say, if you think the paradigm in which ALL of biology is making it's headway in is something to laugh at, then doesn't that hint to you that you're a giant moron?

Whenever I see people writing huge essays about things like these I can't help thinking that they just need to take a philosophical step or two backwards. I just can't find the will to get into debates about things that are not worth debating anymore, either because I'm becoming increasingly busy in everyday life or maybe I just realize that it really doesn't matter whether a god exists or not.

10 minutes of cardio before a workout is a really good idea. I used to do that all the time before each workout but ever since I've stopped (recently) I noticed a big loss in flexibility. I guess I could just stretch more, but cardio is more physically demanding and... better.

Huh, I didn't know you could 'get' type 1, I thought that was (close to) 100% hereditary.

lol, are you watching canada's women team vs swedens right now? They're absolutely dominating them woooo Canada, already 2 gold medals :thumbsup:

You are now the guy from Harvest Moon

I'd definitely be dead :rolleyes: . I could stand a chance if they didn't have a killing mindset, but yeah. Actually, this reminds of of a .gif where there's a lion that charges a man at top speed and the man just as it pounces the man steps aside and pushes the lion away. It could have been trained but they were in the wild so I dunno.

I was taught that there were only 20 amino acids that make up life in general, so this too astonished me. I guess it was naive of me to think that there are only 20 that actually existed, whilst it was perfectly possible for them to not be used but still exist. Don't get confused people - this experiment was probably not the first to identify other, non-used amino acids. It's just the first time I've heard of them.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: excellent.

That's what I use. It's super expensive though. Yeah, after this tub is done I'm going shopping for the most dirt cheap protein powder out there. My tub is gonna last surprisingly long though - it says it has only 10 servings but that only counts if you use 150g per serving, which I don't, and I only have a shake after my workouts, not 3 times a day. So maybe I'll stick with the Cyto if I like the results, after all.

I'm pretty sure we all did what we had to do last night. Atleast,... I did :unsure: Today is study day because all my midterms are crammed into next week

I find it hilarious that the USA is getting bombarded with snow and everyone is tripping balls thinking its the rapture or something, while here in Canada we have about a total of a foot of snow with sunny skies for most of this and the past month :thumbsup:

I don't like the thought that governments are starting to think about fiddling in my intertubes. PROXY TO THE NETHERLANDS

Sold my Bon Jovi tickets for a nice buck, I'll use the money to go to less well known band live concerts. Big things like Bell Center concerts are never as fun as when they're in the clubs anyways :mrgreen:

Just came back from playing outdoor hockey with some friends. Crazy cardio exercise, we played for like 3 hours straight. I also pwned my friend into the boards without even touching him :thumbsup: great success

...but the transition from venule to arterioles is the most important part :shame: It's amusing knowing how inefficient we are at breathing compared to reptiles.

Nailed my organic midterm. I still can't believe I figured out what the chemical structure of urea was based on what other structures he gave us on other, completely irrelevant questions. Thought process: -Urea definitely has Nitrogen in it, I learnt this is bio. So it has an amine group. -It's probably not an alkane, it's too soluble -Soluble eh... probably has a carbonyl group or could be an ether.. -Another question had an ether in it, so it's not that -I'm pretty sure it's non-polar, or else he'd have mentioned it. So two amine groups attached to carbonyl maybe? BANG it's a diamine ketone. Gosh I'm smart.

Whenever I talk about benching, I either say the total weight in lbs (including the bar) or the weight of just one side. For example, I can bench one plate (45 lbs) or I can bench 135 lbs. Most of the time I just say how much I'm putting on one side thought.

I'm so [bleep]ing stupid. I poured water into my protein shake cup then measured 3 scoops of the powder and placed in in the cup as well. The stuff made a tiny floating mound in the cup but I also got some on the sides and so I tried blowing it off. The entire mound flew up into my face and into my eyes, on my keyboard, in my mouse, went all over my desk and in my headphones. My eyes can't stop watering and I'm sneezing like there's no tomorrow. [bleep] I'm dumb