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If you're testing medicines for the correct compositions you'll need a degree to show that you're competent enough... I hope. What country are you in? xD

Using analytical techniques will require practical, as well as theoretical practice and know-how to be successful.

I don't know, but I think GC/MS machines cost an arm and a leg.

Reading chromatographs and spectras requires supervised practice and you need to know all of the flaws involved with the techniques that might give false readings and stuff.

Either go for a degree, or an apprenticeship, which places like GSK offer I think.

Nicely summarised, thanks.

I've heard about Iranian officials talking about wiping out Israel. Completely idiotic to expect the world to allow you to build weapons of mass destruction when you're saying stuff like that.

Any historians about who would care summarises Israeli-Iranian relations for me?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19424097

There is fear that war between the two countries could be close now (more so than previously). Let's hope not.

I've looked into their history but it's complicated and I am still confused about it.

This seems to be a recurring concern expressed across the internet. There's a new piece of technology that targets cancer specific genes and turns off the malignant cells. Sounds great, right? But then I scroll down to the comments section to see people discussing how it could be weaponised to target genes belonging primarily to certain ethnicities and them out.

I personally think there are many flaws in that plan. Where did you hear about the idea? Or did the thought just come to you?

The UK gives £280mil to India every year, to 'improve' post-colonial relations aka. after exploiting them for many years. Even though the Indian finance minister said he doesn't want our help and what we're giving to them is "peanuts".

In terms of history, we have a lot of debt to pay (in general), especially Europe to Africa, I'd say. That's the thing though, if you went back far enough, most countries have screwed each other over at one point or another.

I'd say the debt should probably still be recognised if said country is still suffering at large, as a result of what another country did to it in the past. I wouldn't say the British Empire really owes India because they didn't really make things worse for them today... from what I know.

First SOPA then PIPA, ACTA, CISPA, and now TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership).

TPP has cleverly been disguised as a free trade agreement, but yet again has snuck in corporate 'privacy' laws; which benefit nothing but corporate interests and restrict everyone else.

When (if ever) do you think this madness will come to an end, i.e. when will the American government stop trying to pass this law with different names? Which the people have opposed again and again and again. Perhaps more relevantly, what will it take to bring a stop to it?

http://www.guardian....free-trade-deal

Since these measures were hugely unpopular, Sopa could probably never pass as a standalone piece of legislation. But tied into a larger pact and blessed with "free trade" holy water, the entertainment industry may be able to get what it wants.

It says

Don't move through the door if the light is green.

God knows what it means.

W...what? how do you know it says that??

I'll have to ask the others who use the PC if they made it lol.

Edit: I have a hunch that it may be a spoiler for one of the games on my PC.

Cheers Ivanv. Probably just techno babble in that case.

John Cuthber:

Dontmove through the door if the light is green.

So I was looking through my computer using the Start button's search bar, for a windows 'reminder' application. Apparently one doesn't exist. But I did find something else... something pretty weird: a doc. file called 'reminder'; when opened there is some text, written in the symbol font- so I can't understand it.

Any idea how I can translate or decrypt this seemingly hidden message?

Hello,

Can any one help me? I got a grade B in my GCSE Biology and now I want to do A level biology, is this reasonable. And I'm doing this subject to take medicine in university.

Please give me a true and honest answer, I don;t mind if it's bad.

 

Thank you

That's fully reasonable. You can go into A Level Biology if you have lower than a B in GCSE. Bare in mind that you will have to put in much more time and effort for A level than you did GCSE. Do segments of revision frequently.

Success in A Level is essentially down to hard work. If you're in a state school, don't rely on teachers to give you the information; take the time to learn it yourself.

Unless you go to private school, you can't expect decent help in school- for the majority of cases.

Freemasonry is surrounded by conspiracy theory... that doesn't make it a conspiracy. It is a private group with private interests.

Talking of private interest, can you name your objections to private interest groups please?

A private interest group is any group or individuals that can invest money into a politician without anyone knowing where the money came from. Look it up.

I think examples could help to give us an idea. Freemasons? Bohemian Grove List?

Those extreme examples you used... we no longer have an Empire, we're no longer at world war, we aren't Communist China with millions upon millions of people able to work for nothing at all.

Just because walls have been built in the past doesn't mean it's practicable today... it's too expensive for a small war like this. Those walls you listed were built to defend homeland territory defence; they didn't travel across the world to build a huge wall for one military operation. And it's easy to see why.

Good. You watch BBC documentaries. So would you please watch this one I posted here?

I think you're confused. I said "I've watched BBC documentaries" before you posted your BBC documentary. Therefore, when I made the comment, your comment with the video didn't exist yet. Why are you responding as if I somehow pre-emptively ignored your future comment? That would require time travel.

I'll get round to watching it tomorrow.

Just this free website should do the trick: http://www.chemguide.co.uk/

There's a section called atomic structures and bonding.

I can't really recommend any reading for chemistry, unless you want to buy OCR AS chemistry. Because that's basically where I learnt all of the fundamentals up to this point; along with the A2 book.

Edit: Look into DNA. See its primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure when making up protein. This should help you too.

Well with looser pants there is actually more material then tighter pants. Wouldn't a better analogy be comparing tight pants that cover all of your skin to loose shorts?

 

When the hair is laying flat on your skin it is "tight" and covering all of your skin But when it is raised, although it is "looser", it is also covering less area

But as Phi For All said it used to be useful for humans. When we had longer hair. I think the theory is that it just never stopped happening, since when people had longer hair on their bodies. It's become redundant in a sense.

Kind of. But I am still a little confused. If the macro changes, the micro has to change to. If all of the molecules stayed exactly the same, then the macro could not change...right? How could a bigger picture change without the smaller picture underlying it also change if the bigger picture is made up of the smaller pictures?

What I said wasn't strictly true, in that, the molecules are affected. In a sense. Their positions in space change when you stretch the shirt, but the molecules' connections to each other are unchanged... that is, the bonds aren't pulled apart, and the molecules are all the same positions relative to each other.

I think at this point you need to learn more about the atomic level and how it results in the macro-level structures. Otherwise you will struggle to understand it. I can see the gap in your understanding, and it's not easy to fill without teaching you a fair amount of chemistry with detailed examples.

I don't understand. Aren't the fibers made of molecules like everything else?

Indeed, they are. But there are many folds in the fibres- before you even reach the molecular level. Stretching the object only causes the 'macro folds' to become unfolded. (macro fold isn't real terminology, I'm using it to help though.)

In the picture I've attached, you can see the 'primary folding' (the big zig-zag). If we magnify a section of the primary folding [in green], we find there is a secondary folding within it. This can repeat many, many times. But so what?

When you stretch, say, a shirt. It is impossible to unfold all of the foldings, let alone therefore, to reach/affect the molecular level, which is smaller than all of the folds before it.

This prevents tension reaching the molecular level.

Did this explanation help?

1) It's not an equation at all, owing to the lack of an "=" sign. It's a "term" or "expression".

2) Of course I know what it is: The graphical representation of the term is directly above it.

3) There are no Mandelstamm variables in the expression. It is a t-channel diagramm, though.

Ah fair enough.

4) I'm not a nuclear physicist. But I am a particle physicist in some sense, which is probably what you actually meant by "nuclear physicist".

"nuclear physics" a character next to sheldon answers the question, and says: "back in former soviet Russia I am nuclear physicist". lol.

Basically, the water is exerting force back against you, as you do to it.

When you stand up, you are pushing down on the ground, and the ground is pushing up against you. With water It's the same, just lesser.

Let's say you have an object, such as a shirt, and you pull it in all directions. After a while it will become permanently stretched out. This is obvious on an every day level. But what is happening molecularly? Are the molecules becoming pushed further and further apart from each other? If so, how are they still attracted to each other enough to stay bonded?

The molecules don't change. The fibres move positions in the object.

It looks like something to do with electron-muon scattering, it looks something related to the scattering amplitude. I am not familiar enough to tell you exactly what it is, or if it is correct.

 

Maybe using Mandelstem variables would help him?

It does look like a Mandelstam Variables diagram. I'll try a search using a chain of wiki-links to try and get there now.

Edit: Looks even more like a Feynman Diagram. Still some variations between them though. e.g. time is horizontal instead of vertical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_diagrams

Some religious teachings assert that all human life matters. The converse of this is Social Darwinism that considers some lives unsuitable to continue to support. Personally I would prefer living in a society based on religious beliefs that protected human life than an atheistic society that relied on euthanasia to rid itself of the burden of the physically and mentally disabled.

Wow. Everything about what you said is stupid. Darwin's theory of evolution is an observation. It doesn't have attached to it, some stupid opinion about the killing of those perceived weaker than others.

What religion really did in the past was to kill people who were perceived to be demon possessed, evil, or witches. Nice protection of human life, I see your point.

Edit: for the purpose of staying on topic:

"As we head into the future, will religion ever lose it's grip amongst the people?"

It is and already has done. But ultimately I guess it depends on whether humanity continues to advance, or if we start going backwards for whatever reason.

"Would the world be a better place if we were all evangelized?"

You could equally ask, would the world be "better" if we were all atheists. To both of those questions, I'd say probably not.

"Does anything else teach better ethics than religion? "

That's down to opinion/belief. That's why religious beliefs should stay on a personal level, and should *not* be forced on everyone. Bad *typo* for a second there.

Purely out of interest, does anyone here know what this equation- extracted from an episode of The Big Bang Theory- is about? (other than nuclear physics).

It gets sheldon cooper (despite being fictional) stuck, and he's meant to be genius. From that, and that alone, I'm assuming it's something pretty complex?

Are we assuming it's in space with nothing else around it or nearby it? E.g. a Sun, rock debris, other planets...