/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3954272
This.

Everyone has one or two courses that are FML-boring. I hated my college state history class (because fucking why is it required?) but got through it and loved most of the courses I took.

>>3954277
Although, civil engineering is a lot of stuff like that, from what I've heard. Road grades always sounded boring to me.

>>2791325
(1) They totally can mate and have offspring, but the offspring are typically sterile (see: donkeys)

(2) Better explanation than what I can give:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/04/basics_how_can_chromosome_numb.php

I'm not saging because this is actually a legitimate question even if it WAS meant to troll.

>>2745876
I'm looking at a few Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior programs at a few different universities (UTexas, Michigan, UC Davis would be some top choices). Basically, I would have started next fall, but it turns out the deadline for to apply for fall admissions is OCTOBER the year before you start (which is insane). So, for now, I'm looking for field related work. It's actually supposedly not that hard to find because a lot of people just don't want to do what ecologists do (ex. I'm doing independent research on Coyotes right now that involves looking at Coyote scat under a microscope [identifying hair is a PAIN IN THE ASS]. Fun, I know).

>>2548580
Meant to cite
>>2548528

...but none of this matters because of >>2548514

>>2292316
Actually, no.
The way biology works, one of the key differences between living organisms and, say, a machine designed to do one task is that living organism must balance many different needs and design constraints. Some constraints are left in from earlier designs and are horribly inefficient (see: recurrent laryngeal nerve). Others represent a balance between two advantages (for example, crocodiles may benefit from being larger because they can take down larger prey [they're were HUGE crocodilians in the past] but that same large size is a disadvantage is prey is scarce because it can't be sustained).

*sigh*
This was a perfect oppurtunity to have an awesome predator-prey thread, but /sci/ just has to be retarded and discuss raw food and just be idiots in general.

I leave you with my favorite African Painted Dog hunt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWvDg92qTEQ

Notice how amazingly organized it it. Most canids aren't this organized.

Good day sirs.

>>2180671
Oh fuck, I've forgotten how to do this, but there's a way that it falls out from Goldman equation (or Nernst, which is really just simplified Goldman), I think.

Someone's enjoying cell bio.

Have you gotten to the death DISC yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoptosis#Fas_path

>>2065981
Plank's Constant.

>>2055894
>lizard systematics.

One of my professors would love you.

Also, I bow before your greatness.

>>2045970
It does in the case of Inosinic acid and a few others. Granted, it also occurs with select...um, 'regular' bases as well.

Read the revised rules here:

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

>>2039015
No, tails/tails/ isn't possible and heads/tails, tails/heads are equivalent the way the the question is worded. Order doesn't matter. It's a combination, not a permutation.

.5

>>2020081
On the subject of systems that aren't closed, Dark Flow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_flow

I don't really understand what it implies, but it's pretty cool.

>>2020055
That's awesome. Unknown areas are always fun to think about.

Southern - DNA
Northern - RNA
Western - Proteins
Eastern - Carbs

...based on what little I remember from a genetics course and some impromptu research just now. I was never good at remembering which technique was which.

>>1990787
Correct, but, like others have been saying, life could have arisen more than once. It just appears to us that one lineage, out of all of the lineages that could have arisen, drove the others to extinction (if there were others). It's not that there <span class="math">couldn't[/spoiler] have multiple origins, it's that the evidence suggests that there <span class="math">wasn't[/spoiler] multiple origins.

Same way they get Carbon and Nitrogen:

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

Dunbar's number (and the several that have been calculated since then)

Piss everyone with 500 facebook friends off.

>>1951230
Yes!
Welcome to the club (though, I actually don't like tiny animals; I'm a vertebrate kinda guy).

>>1902511
Do whatever suits you best.
Remember that, in the end, this is about being happy.
If making money makes you happy, do that.
If stumbling through the chaparral at midnight on a 'night hike' with the rest of your class while trying to call in coyotes makes you happy, do that.

>Most people here have a problem with good looking people that are not masculine and stuff.
Poor assumption; I have no problem with feminine men. Don't think that things said on 4chan reflect people's real views.

Secondly,
>What I want to know is what percentage of the male population is bad ass and also good looking?
If you could quantify 'badass' and 'looks good', even on a subjective scale if it was widely agreed upon, you could do stats.

The actual form of this question is
>When will we be able to so completely understand the inputs and outputs of human brain that we can hook said brain up to a computer by some means and have that computer understand those inputs and outputs and react to them accordingly.

I don't know. I assume someone is working on it.

Timescale, this question has none.

Of course we go extinct eventually. I think we'll kick it when some rock from space comes to kick our ass. On a longer time scale, the sun eventually eats us. I'd love it if we survive the death of our star, but I have my doubts. If we do, I hope we remember to bring at least some of the life from this planet with us when we go. It may be a lonely galaxy, at least as far as complex, multicellular lifeforms go.