Auburngirl05

It's hard to say, because most scientist/inventors have built upon foundations discovered by their precursors, even if it is just to test and debunk faulty theories.

American or Euro? I took the Euro one a couple of years ago, I thought the 'real thing' was a lot easier than the practice ones I'd been taking.

This topic always reminds me of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"...has anyone else seen it? My grandmother had this treatment for a short time, until they realized it was incompatible medications that were affecting her. I'm not sure about applications for other behavioral issues, I know they use it on joints for physical therapy sometimes, though. Are you researching electrotherapy in particular or depression treatments in particular? One interesting topic for depression studies it the role of light and the use of artificial light boxes as a treatment.

Does anyone else find that their joints are easier to 'crack' or do it more frequently when they're cold?

According to this, they definitely love each other: http://www.rockhawk.com/Gay%20Animals.htm (it was posted on another science site I belong to and I thought I'd put it on here also for some laughs)

I found a scoring guide that went from 0-540 points, it's in the chart near the bottom of this page: http://www.hsd.k12.or.us/schools/ghs/staff/abel/aptest/testinfo.html I guess it's just a scaled up version, it gives you six points for each MC and five for each free response question, and the grade breakdown is like this: 370-540 5 Extremely well qualified 290-369 4 Well qualified 215-289 3 Qualified 150-214 2 Possibly qualified 0-149 1 Did you forget your calculator?

I think it could have been a lot worse, but I know I didn't ace it or anything. All I need is a 3 and my college will give me 7 hours of math credit, so I'm just praying for that and it'll take care of math for the rest of my academic career... I spent a long time trying to memorize trig rules/derivatives, but there were only a few simple ones....and I had the washer method perfected, but then the one washer problem was an x= equation and that threw me off...I left a couple of parts (b and c on 6 and another part on one of the others) on the Free Response completely blank. I saw a site online that said you just need about 215 points out of the total 540 for a 3, about 290 for a 4, and I don't remember what the cutoff for a five is (these are averages from past years), I didnt have any hopes of scoring that high so I didn't pay attention. It does mean you could technically leave the entire free response blank and still pull a 3, if that makes anyone feel better. The AB test is the only one I'm taking this year (I'm a senior), but I've taken four in past years. I think the Calculus one is definitely going to break my streak of 5's, though...

I heard both good and bad things about "A.I.", but I was really disappointed when I saw it, I'm not even sure what it was about the movie... Anyone remember "The Sixth Day" with Arnold Schwarzenegger? (I probably butchered the spelling of his name, sorry.)

18/f/usa

I have an uncle that's a physical therapist, and I asked him this question once and the gas release was the explanation he gave me.

I have to agree with the above mentions of Gattaca, we actually watched it in my sociology class and it brought up some really interesting issues tied to genetic engineering.

Actually we've got those too, they just haven't bloomed yet. They're a hybrid strain actually, no thorns whatsoever. It's kind of interesting, the first batch is always ripe EXACTLY during 4th of July weekend. I have wondered how that would be affected if we lived farther north. (I'm currently about an hour above the GA/TN border.)

I graduate from high school two weeks from today....then it's off to Auburn University in the fall for a dual Zoology/Pre-Veterinary Medicine degree, followed by vet school.

I'm not going to see it when it opens, but that's just because I've been wanting to read the books for a while and don't want to 'ruin it' for myself by seeing the movie first. Is the movie supposed to be of the first book in the series, or does it span more than one?

The malleus is one of the bones in mammalian inner ears, I'll leave the lesson on jawbone/ear evolution to Mokele because I know he'll explain it better, but I wanted to add another question about the quote. I recognized it as a revision of "With malice aforethought", but do you know wrote the original lines? I have come across it in lit class before but couldn't remember.

Our cherry, pear, and peach trees bloomed a couple of weeks ago, they're finally getting big enough that they should produce a significant amount of fruit this year...of course it's the year we're moving, but it's been rewarding raising them at least.

I appreciate the link, I thought the patterns shown on the maps were really interesting. Thanks!

The only thing that will truly reduce our dependency on foriegn oil in the long-term is to develop alternate energy sources, if we took the money and manpower that would be used to drill Alaska maybe we could make some innovations in coming up with an alternate fuel, it's something we'll have to do anyway at some point, we may as well do it sooner rather than later.

Kind of a "genetics loads the gun, environment pulls the trigger" scenario? That's the way I've always viewed the nature versus nurture issue in general,(although I believe some things are more influenced by one or the other).

Like Deathby pointed out, recessive genes aren't neccessarily 'supposed' to be rare at all, some conditions like polydactyly and achondroplasia are dominant genes, but the vast majority of people's alleles for those traits are homozygous recessive. Just out of curiosity, how did the frequencies of different blood types (ie 47% O, 5% AB, etc) compare between races? Are they more evenly distributed in some races than others?

I read somewhere (sorry can't cite it, it was quite a while ago) that studies have shown that lower order primates tend to be left-handed, and the ratio of right-handedness gradually increases as you get closer to the great apes and humans. Does anyone know if that's valid? On the topic of the corpus callosum, a famous autistic savant (the model for Hoffman's character in "Rainman") named Kim Peek has been shown to lack that link between the hemispheres, and he can open a book and read each page with a separate eye, simultaneously and with 98% tested comprehension.

The March 31 issue of Nature had a big article about this, if you want me to e-mail you the pdf just let me know.