ATP Synthase rocks! I think it has to be one of the coolest enzymes ever! Without it I would even have the energy to post on this blog! I am in the middle of a biochemistry course right now, and I never ceased to be amazed by the crazy things that enzymes can do. It's like a little factory machine. As they say "Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction." For more information check out wikipedia:
So for all you Heliumites that are waiting patiently for Shrodinger to post...just got word this morning that he's having trouble posting. He's working in the England for the next couple of weeks, and unfortunately he can't login to the blog from the hospital computers. He will however send me things through me to post for him. I know you all miss him, but in the meantime you have me!
O.K. it's about time I post on this thing, since it's been a while and Schrodinger has taken over the Blog. So, I am a little distraught with the state of the public school system right now. I have been teaching at a math and science summer camp for girls entering the ninth grade for the last couple of weeks. One of the campers was complaining because she felt the science she was doing was irrelevant to what she would be learning next year. The program is focused on ecology, so they are studying photosynthesis, testing the soil and water-getting a head start on microscope technique. Recalling, that in my Freshman biology class we studied evolution, mitosis, plants, animals and started to use microscopes I asked, "What is it you're studying next year?" To my surprise Health class now takes the place of Freshman biology. They will learn watered down nutrition, how to brush their teeth, how to just say no to drugs, their reproductive systems and most importantly how to put a condom on a banana. I too had a health requirement in high school, but it by no means replaced biology and it was only a one semester course. And we wonder why America is falling behind in the sciences. I hate to say it, but I object to this just as much as I object to teaching creationism in the public schools. And the funny part is she's attending what is considered to be one of the more decent progressive high schools around here--Berkeley High.
