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[02 Nov 2009|11:19am] |
I am much too old to be pulling all-nighters to finish papers.
Aren't I?
In related news, none of my professors shall ever be permitted to see the notes I write for these papers, because they are full of incomprehensible acronyms, shorthand, as well as words like "lol", "derp", and "orly".
But wait! You say. How could something published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal possibly warrant a "lol" or a "derp"?
Allow me to enlighten you. Ahem.
Psychrophile = microbe that is specifically adapted to grow at cold temperatures (say, the bacteria you would find at the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean)
Mesophile = microbe that is specifically adapted to grow at moderate temperatures (say, the E.coli in your gut)
"The results indicate that, as a physiological adaptation to the permanently cold Arctic environment, psychrophilic sulfate reducers have considerably higher specific metabolic rates than their mesophilic counterparts at similarly low temperatures."
DEEEERRRRRRRRP. Whut you say? Psychrophile has higher metabolic rate than mesophile at low temperatures? No wai.
STOP THE PRESSES. IT IS TIME TO PUBLISH YOUR FACT. ALL MUST KNOW.
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| Stolen meme |
[22 Oct 2009|12:26am] |
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The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about one another. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.
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| NAME ALL OF THE PROKARYOTIC PHYLA CONTAINING YOUR MOM |
[19 Oct 2009|11:33am] |
It's been years since I last took a proper Biology course (as opposed to, say, Microbiology, or Biochemistry, or Biotechnology, or some such) and during that time I had regrettably forgotten that Biology tends to compensate for its somewhat simpler concepts than the other natural sciences by making you memorize a billion useless taxa.
My first midterm of the school year was today, and it was in said Biology course, so of course at about midnight last night, right when I was about to turn in for the night with the last of my studying behind me like the responsible student I am, one of my fellow students reveals to me that the prof has told her that the 35-page paper he mentioned "might be interesting" to us in class will of course be on the test.
...Balls. So, to start off the semester on a high note, I pull an all-nighter studying for my midterm. (I can't baw too hard about it - thanks to said last-minute cramming I absolutely killed the exam, and said paper was in fact a large part of it.)
It almost went poorly. The prof threw us a curve ball by making the first question an interesting problem-solving sort, rather than "name the 24 phyla of eubacteria and the major classes and orders and a distinguishing characteristic of each". No, instead it was the good old "so you're the scientist who discovers X phenomenon - what methods would you use to test it? if you observed Y, how would you interpret these results?" You know, questions I actually find interesting and want to answer.
This was of course merely a trap. I wasted nearly half the exam period on that one question (which was, in my defense, worth almost a third of the total marks) only to discover that the rest of the midterm was the same old "list the phyla" garbage and I would have been better served having done those questions first while those answers were still freshly crammed into my brain, and once I'd finished regurgitating them onto the answer sheet there would have been a nice juicy question to wash away the aftertaste.
In any case, I am surprisingly untired despite the lack of sleep, though obviously somewhat tired - I'm sure this is just riddled with typos - possibly because I pulled a similar stunt two days ago, for C's brother's wedding. At which he delivered a rather masterful best man speech, I must say. Equally impressive was me in 3-inch heels without so much as a single stumble, I'd like to think.
Well, friends, what should I do now? Go to sleep like a responsible person, play Bioshock (which I'd like to think is being responsible because the game is due back tomorrow), watch the new episode of Dexter (downloaded last night whilst studying), catch up on LJ (which I've been neglecting for weddings and midterms), or scribble away at my lame fictions?
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| Proving that my posts can be as inane as anyone's |
[10 Oct 2009|03:52am] |
Gaaaah, I am cold. Freezing.
I have no idea why. I haven't touched the thermostat and I'm wearing a sweater. I went to make myself some hot tea but was summarily cast out short of mission completion because of the noise. (It was 3AM, and I'm too cold to sleep. Luckily it's Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend so this should have little to no impact on school. Hopefully.)
So. Cold.
EDIT: I was having a discussion about this with someone earlier, and now it's late and I'm cold and have nothing better to do than look things up on the internets.
Based on a forensic study of human hair, human pubic hair is generally between 0.4 to 2.3 inches (10-60mm) long depending on ethnicity and that the average for my particular ethnicity is slightly less than 1.5 inches.
Also, yes, people are pretty much done acquiring said hair by fifteen.
I am entirely unsurprised by this as I have had, shall we say, a much greater sample size to study (this is not as dirty as it sounds - I was a competitive swimmer and I saw thousands of people between the ages of 10-20 in the change room) and it would seem that your experiences are with a few hirsute outliers.
Interestingly, Japanese pubic hair is on average considerably longer at almost three inches, which confirms some casual observations I and many of my fellow gaijin have had while in the land of the rising sun.
Perhaps even more interestingly, the (confirmed) world record for longest pubic hair is over 11 inches. Nice!
Poll #1468949 BRRRRR.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26Why is Ari cold? What should Ari do to get warm?
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