School

I came across an interesting article about how college students are starting to pirate text books due to their excessive prices.  What really hit home for me was when the organic chemistry text book I use was featured in the article.
Consider the cost of a legitimate copy of one of the textbooks listed at the [...]

The holidays are rapidly approaching, and with that is every student’s fear.  Whether you are in high school, college, or graduate school you know and fear the word ‘finals’.  This is the time of year when you have to regurgitate all of your knowledge onto a stack of paper, and hope for the best.  Here [...]

“A high school chemistry teacher found himself in hot water over the weekend when he was charged with making methamphetamine in his school lab, the Bakersfield Californian reported. Jeff Scheidemantel, 32, who taught at Shafter High School, came under suspicion when he went online to buy red phosphorus, an important ingredient for making the drug, [...]

‘Young chimps apparently have an extraordinary ability to remember numerals, and recall them even better than human adults do.
Although researchers have extensively studied chimpanzee memory in the past, the general assumption has been that it is inferior to that of humans, as with many other mental functions.
“There are still many people, including many biologists, who [...]

“Experts say that even at ages 16 and 17, when compared to adults, juveniles on average are more:— impulsive.
— aggressive.
— emotionally volatile.
— likely to take risks.
— reactive to stress.
— vulnerable to peer pressure.
— prone to focus on and overestimate short-term payoffs and underplay longer-term consequences of what they do.
— likely to overlook alternative courses of [...]

Since I am off to take an Organic Chemistry test, I figured that it would be best to share a funny quote on testing:

Now I lay me down to rest, and hope I pass tomorrow’s test. If I should die before I wake, that’s one less test I have to take.

–Mike

Any student who is writing w research paper will sigh when they hear the words bibliography. It is a pain to write, because memorizing the format is a pain. There are different types of bibliographies, and different rules for listing multiple authors etc. For those who are looking for help in writing [...]

“Oliver Curry, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, thinks two subspecies will emerge: a tall, slim, intelligent privileged class, and a short, squat, ugly, dim-witted race of servants.If that sounds remarkably like what H.G. Wells foresaw in “The Time Machine” with his Eloi and Morlocks, that’s because the division of species into [...]

“The DNA remnants of these ancient retroviruses, distant relatives of today’s HIV, account for an estimated 8 percent of the human genetic code and may have enabled master genes that account for some of the differences between us and our chimpanzee relatives.” (Link)
A virus can take two approached to replicating its DNA.  One way, which [...]

“Lincoln Delivers Gettysburg Address (1863)
The Gettysburg Address, one of the most quoted speeches in US history, was delivered by President Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and half months after the famous battle fought there. Lincoln’s three-minute address redefined the American Civil War as not merely a struggle [...]