/sci/ - Science & Math

And people wonder why Canadians are so nice; they have to share a continent with obese "Patriots" who think they're the world police, and a bunch of dirty spics who think their country is the greatest place on the planet, but seem to be willing to do anything to leave it.

An IQ test simply measures your ability to take an IQ test. As part as a study, I helped my prof design an experiment that had two groups of students aged 9-13 (Aprox 20 of each age per group) write an IQ test.

One group were given "mock tests" and material that is very similar to those found on IQ tests (Patern recognition, memory, etc). The other was not.

Guess what group, on an overall average, scored 13 points higher on the IQ test?

Final comparison was 107 to 120.

Students in age groups were all from the same school, and we talked to their teachers to ensure we weren't pitting the bright kids against slow learners.

Thats because half the time it isn't a psychologist: it's some guy plugging in answers to a computer, or a MD prescribing you pills based on what they think is wrong.

And parents these days are probably the worst thing ever. My kid can't focus, so I'll get him pumped full of pills instead of actually bothering to find out why he can't focus. No he/she isn't bored, that's bullshit, they evidently have ADD/ADHD/Something.

It simply isn't suited to our fast paced "Plug and chug" society. Very rarely do you actually see someone take the time and effort to find what's really going on.

>>3664432

How would you make sure the colony only contained one species of bacteria?

How would you keep the jars sterilized while you transfered the sample to them?

Why am I still awake?

I am going to sleep?

Why did I end that statement as a question?

>>3664409

Without equiptment, the closest you would likely come to a pure colony of anything, would be growing colonies of something on questionably sterilized glass jars.

>>3664369

From backyard quality, getting a pure strain of C. botulinum would be very very difficult, but not impossible. It would require lots of testing and careful separation of samples. I know offhand that C. botulinum is gram positive, so that cuts down on the number of strains once you have a sample to sort through a decent ammount.

And as far as enrichment goes, I have no clue how the average Joe (Asuming they had a REASONABLE budget) would even be able to isolate the botulinum in the first place, so enrichment would be extremely unlikely.

They exist to reproduce. The only reason why they aren't considered organisms is because they can't asexually or sexually multiply: they rely on a host's system that they hijack to reproduce.

Disclaimer: No, I'm not actually killing myself. Yes, I do have access to pure samples of various bacteria. Yes, we do have C. botulinum. No, I'm not telling you where I work.

>>3664301

If you know how to sterilize everything properly, and have a controlled environment to work in (I have a giant glass box I could convert into an ad-hock sterilized environment with a bit of work, along with access to various bacteria), the only thing left is finding a growth medium (aforementioned agar), and something to put the trays in to keep it at an optimal temperature.

>>3664298

Why would you need PCR to cultivate a bacterial colony? Agar, bro. It's not even like I would have to seperate the botlinum from the growth medium and bacteria, just swab everything into a sandwich, eat it, and die.

Brb, cultivating a colony to produce enough botulinum toxin to kill myself.

I'm not sure whether I should laugh, rage, or cry at the failure to describe properly what a mitochondria does.

>>3664144

... Is that picture in agreement? Because I can assure you, the mitochondria isn't

1) A cancer fighting cell
2) A cell involved in the immune system at all
2) A cell

>In human bodies there is a natural cancer fighting human cell, the mitochondria

Stopped reading there.