[lan418]

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I see what you mean lan418, but I think you missed my point. The reason why I think a tutorial forum would be better than the homework help forum is because it's not a one on one thing where one person has to spend hours explaining a whole section of science to one other person.

In the new forum, a person starts a thread on the topic they want to share (e.g. organic nomenclature), others can input more indepth info. So now if a person is having trouble with organic equations, he/she can come to SFN and read the lesson and learn. It's not like you are doing the homework for people where they ask a question and you answer it, it's more like an online SFN encyclopedia for students as a reference.

But why do that if you have online references? Chances are, what we post may not cover as much as other websites has already posted.

[Dak]

There is already a thread on the subject of a SFN tutorial thingumy:

pluggety plug-plug, McPlug plugey plug.

[chemi]

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But why do that if you have online references? Chances are, what we post may not cover as much as other websites has already posted.

Exactly, so we want to make SFN just as good as other websites. Get more people to come to SFN and learn things rather than other online references. I mean it's a science forum, so it should be academically challenging (sounds crazy but if we all help, it'll be a damn good encyclopedia)


this was from Dak's thread

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but other than that, the only majour effort would be in marking the tests to see what areas they need to improve, but the tests could be constructed with ease-of-marking in mind (multiple-choice-questions for example).

I like your idea too, classroom/tutorial are both similar and could work. As for marking the tests, we could just scan our own tests/answer sheets, and attach them to the posts.

[abeefaria]

How about a book forum? I am totally suprised that I haven't seen one here, or am I missing it?

[lethalfang]

Or Biophysical Chemistry

[5614]

What kind of thing comes under Biophysics??? Like looking at carbon structure of cells? But wouldn't that be Biochemistry? I dunno!

[Etacude]

5614 said:

What kind of thing comes under Biophysics??? Like looking at carbon structure of cells? But wouldn't that be Biochemistry? I dunno!

Biophysics - It means employ physicists to do the job of biology :D - Okay a joke (partly).

There are certain biologial processes such as protein foilding, protein aggregation and protein structural change occur via coorperative molecular packing and interactions within the complex biological molecule that do not involve in any chemical reaction, and thus not in the realm of biochemistry.

Biophycisicts sometimes require to have the knowledge of mathematical concept and theoretical modelling and only some knowledge of biology in order to carry out studies on topic as mentioned above.
Quite common they also use some intrumentations where results obtain are not as straight forward and need some mathematical analysis skill - such as X-ray crystallography, neutron scattering, protein NMR etc.

[PhDP]

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Biophysics - It means employ physicists to do the job of biology - Okay a joke (partly).

It's not very accurate. The biophysicist do a job clearly more related to biochemistry than to biology. Biophysicists aren't trained to understand how physics act on living beings, they are trained to understand biology at the molecular/cellular level with a good knowledge of physics. Biophysics is the union of cell/molecular biology and physics. And it's very interesting.

[Mokele]

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Biophysicists aren't trained to understand how physics act on living beings, they are trained to understand biology at the molecular/cellular level with a good knowledge of physics.

Precisely. The physics of living beings, at the organismal level, is called Biomechanics (what I do), and is basically all about muscles, joints, hydrostatic skeletons and the like. Most of it deals with how animals move, since that's generally more interesting than them standing still.

Mokele

[darkkazier]

Geology?

[calbiterol]

I agree with nanotechnology completely. The language thing would be quite cool as well.

Personally, the two things that I would most like to see are electronics (I see an awful lot of questions that should be in electricity/electronics go into engineering or computer science) and space technology/aerospace engineering/etc.

[bascule]

This has been mentioned before, but with the debate over climate change raging, I'm really surprised there's not a forum dedicated to Climate/Atmospheric Science.

Maybe I say that because I work for a climate modelling group...

Anyway, I'd really like to talk about:

- What climate forcings are truly anthropogenic in origin?
- Is "global warming" a result of these forcings?
- What climate change metrics should we truly be considering, especially when assessing a "global warming" trend?

[Kyrisch]

The language thread, book thread, and history thread would not be science. I believe that is why they have not been created.

What would be really useful is an Earth Science forum. This doesn't really fit anywhere else. Anyone else think this is a good idea? I have a thread that I want to post that deals with such and I don't know where to put it.

[bascule]

Anyone plan on busting out a new forum anytime in the near future?

I think you could throw together another omnibus forum like all the others for what's been suggested... Meteorology / Climate Science / Earth Science seems like it'd be a good one.

[calbiterol]

Kyrisch]The language thread, book thread, and history thread would not be [i]science[/i said:

. I believe that is why they have not been created.

At the very least, history definitely falls under the anthropology category, which is (IIRC) considered a science.

[-Demosthenes-]

some dude]...and history thread would not be

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Ever heard of [i]Social Science?

Edit: calbiterol, noticed your sig, one of my favorite books :D vbmenu_register("postmenu_200485", true);

[insane_alien]

How about a forum where we can post methods for extracting chemicals and elements from everyday things like bleach, paint etc.(mabye a sub forum of chemistry) i'm thinking along the lines of YT's thread about tin.

The reason i think a seperate forum would be better is because some people who visit the chemistry forum don't have that good access to chemicals (under 18/ short on cash) so this could be a way of obtaining them.

[Celeste22]

Epidemiology...or does that fall under Ecology, Populations, Habitats, Environment here?

I'd also personally like to see a thread really geared at current research , ie
promising cancer treatments, stem cells, herbal remedies, etc. Even if it was simply a thread with links that people have come across while researching other things.
I spend countless hours researching medical info everyday and any amount of help would be greatly appreciated. :D

[tash =)]

How about Pharmacology?