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Biochemistry is really cool but, I just can't figure out how we know this stuff. For example: Muscle physiology. How do we know the structures of the actin and miosin and how do we know about the calcium and entering and binding etc. It's not like you can just look at a muscle and see all of this. Is it jsut really good guesses or what? This may be more of a biology question.

Woo Hoo! I put in my leave chit today! I get the 22nd of December to the 2nd of January off!

There was a discussion in another thread about traffic exchanges. Since it was getting a little off-topic, I thought it would be a good idea to start a new thread. I believe that traffic exchanges are a good way to advertise a web site. I've been using them for about 5 years, and I've recently opened my own exchange. Some of them allow you to get thousands of different visitors to your web site everyday. As Cap'n Refsmmat mentioned, not all of them will be interested in your web site. However, since such a large number of people are sent to your web site, there is a good chance that you will reach many people who are interested. Even though I believe the concept…

Hello Shall be disappearing for the Holidays, so I extend my most hearty seasonal wishes to the distinguished ladies and gentlemen of this forum. Mr D

Hi all! Advise,i leave in Paris,what best Hotel Thanks G'night

I want to find a place that has articles about medical transripting and billing, Thanks, Leon

Since the religion and philosophy boards closed we've not had an creationists we can direct a really good rant at. this seems to be building up a lot of tension and some of us are snapping at newbies. so, lets have this little corner where we can rant about anyone/anything we want. I'm atually pretty chilled just now so someone else start us off.

To scale Earth near the sun (see it at far right). Large earth is to add more perpsective to size.

I love watching this episode, http://network2.tv/channel/4930/#episodes. It's full of comedy and relaxes your mind.

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I caught this on the news tonight, where one of the networks had a piece about it. It's an eight-minute video showing the inner workings of a cell. Fascinating stuff. Apparently it was made at the behest of Harvard biologists who wanted to make the subject more exciting for their students, and the video has apparently gone on to win major awards. News story about it here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1713188/posts The video is available here: http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/ I recommend watching both the abbreviated 3-minute version, which has cool music, and the longer version which has a voice-over narration track.

Hey, I'm trying to decide on whether or not to buy a xbox 360/PS3 or perhaps a better gaming computer. Does anyone know whether or not you can play pc games on the 360 if you have the premium version (the one with the hard drive). I know it runs on windows, or at least some version of windows, but I don't know whether it would allow you to install games on it. I really want to play flight simulator X but I'm not sure what to do. Thanks

Identification of this man needed please, thanks to anyone that can help:-)

Now here’s a question directed only at serious students of the Roddenberry School of science. Did any Star Ship ever have air conditioning? I don’t know so I shan’t be supplying an answer.

Anyone have a clue to who he is?

so I think my car might be cursed. I bought it 4 months ago for about $800 it's a 95 taurus with some minor problems but thats to be expected for a car that old and at that price. now I had the car in the mechanics shop in order to get some minor repairs done after I bought the car, and the day I was supposed to pick it up, a truck backed into it. it was totaled for 2000 I fixed it tonight I was hit in the side and probably had the car totaled again. just thought I'd share the story.

This started when I was chatting to some friends on msn, basically you take a body part and try and incorporate it into a celebrities or famous characters name, knee seems to be quite an easy one to start off with, and thus... Liam Kneeson Chesknee Hawkes Doknee Darko You get 1 point for each body part, if you can get two body parts into one name you get two points. Of course if your attempt is tenuous, and not worthy of even a snigger, you will receive no points and will be mocked accordingly.

Hello everyone, I am new to chess, started playing it a couple of days ago.. and now I have sorta problem.. Whenever I tend to win a game... I always end up drawing the game by stalemate... Any suggestions of checking the queen so the game did not end up being drawn? thx..

Anybody who goes to a doctor regularly can relate with this one. Do you think that more intelligent people tend to have worse handwriting? I swear, there has to be an illegibility class at most medical schools...

I don't like school uniforms, mostly because people seem incapable of wearing them properly. There is something about school ties which means they are never tied well and in the right place, and school shirts are generally crappy. On my way to help teach a lesson, the teacher I was helping had to have a go at five different students because the state of their dress was lousy so I said "and that's why I don't think there should be school uniforms" and she made the perfectly valid point that kids judge and exclude each other enough as it is and allowing them to show what clothes they like and can afford would just exacerbate that. So anyways, what are your thoughts on u…

I hope this isn't viewed as a spam plug. But I received this from a friend in my Email: I verified this at Snopes.com, and it appears much of the text above comes directly from them. Personally, I'm impressed with capitalists that can discipline their greed enough to do things like this. Couldn't we all use a break from Wal-mart? At least buy something from Sears. At least they give something back, which is more than I can say for Wal-mart, which is the retail business equivalent of a black hole.

I'm just curious how many of you scientists in here uses myspace If yes, post the link in here.

I'm in second year physics, and I feel the time has come to get a graphing calculator, so I'm going to ask for one for christmas. I have prior experience with the classic TI-83 plus, so by default I would lean towards this one because I know the interface. But, there are also TI-84s, 85s, 86s and 89s that are all of the same basic design, but more advanced (and more expensive). There is also the 83 silver edition. So do any of you have experiences with these calculators? What would you recomend for a second year physics student, who wants a calculator that will last me years? Whats the best bang for the buck? Any opinions appreciated.

ENACTIVATES EN ACTIVATES EN-ACTIVATES :confused: Is this a real word? or is it an advertising gimick? I just heard it on an advert, looked it up in online dictionary and it lists them all but only actually defines activate. :confused:

I was advised by my computer repair technician NOT to use an LCD monitor but only a CRT one on my computer . He gave several reasons for this ( picture distortion /contortion /shrinkage under certain circumstances ) , not the least being that a CRT type lasts twice as long . Does any reader have any input on this ? My CRT 20 in monitor just failed after about 6 years ( an IBM type , not Mac system ) .