Archive for January, 2008

Macbook Air
January 15, 2008

Well, I’ve just seen a few pics of the newly announced Macbook Air, and I think it looks great (like almost every other Apple product out), however I’m a bit worried about one thing – the battery. It’s not user-replacable, like the  iPod, or iPhone, which means, if the battery dies out, you’re screwed. I [...]

CHM247 Reaction Flowcharts Soon
January 15, 2008

I will be posting reaction flowcharts regarding:
-electrophillic substitution
-nucleophillic substitution
-aromatic synthesis
-aldehydes and ketones
-acid halides and carboxylic acids
-acid anhydrides and esters
-amides and nitriles
-alpha alkylations
-carbonyl condensation
-amines
shortly… like this weekend or whenever I have time. They will be posted in the Files/Helpful Things page.

Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?
January 15, 2008

What a great children’s book! LOL
http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/microserveces08

BIO250 Lab 7
January 15, 2008

For Worksheet 7-1 remember:
EM gives great resolution, but often involves killing the cell, while LM has less detail, but allows you to study living cells in real time. 
Heres a link that will help for one of the questions in worksheet 7-2
http://www.life.umd.edu/classroom/bsci424/BSCI223WebSiteFiles/ProkaryoticvsEukaryotic.htm
I will post more tomorrow,
 Cheers
Update:
-Advantage to pelleting pure mitochondria would be that you can perform analysis on it [...]

CHM247 Notes
January 10, 2008

From what I’ve been hearing, CHM247 this semester, is totally written based compared to last semester, and since I saved the files that they gave us last sem, sometime soon I will be posting up reaction flowcharts and possibly lecture notes.
 Cheers