Most people do not know, but a trace amount of a toxic chemical called atractyligenin is found in the coffee you and I drink. There have been several studies attempting to link long term exposure to various types of cancer. One was even in Science. All of them have been largely ignored.
High doses in the short term have other nasty effects, however. Shutting down certain sugar cycles in your body, among other things. Deaths from atractyligenin are common in Africa, where they use plants containing the chemical for natural remedies.
A google search doesn't reveal much, but if you're interested, there is a great deal of information about atractyloside, a derivatized form of atractyligenin.
I didn't learn too much in the required labs, but spending a semester or a summer in a lab doing research you will learn more than any number of classes or books you read.
Yes, for the first 12 years of my education. I grew up with a burning hatred for MAC OS. Crashy, buggy, slow, lack of software...you name it. Sure Apple gave huge discounts to the schools. Too bad the schools never upgraded, but instead forced students to use 6 year old pieces of Apple trash.
It turns out that the chemistry research lab I work at uses Macs exclusively and gets new boxes rather frequently. I was hooked on OSX this summer and recently purchased an iBook (that I use more than any of my other plethora of computers).
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I carved tux into my pumpkin on Sunday. I didn't use any fancy software. I printed out a random black and white tux gif and carved away, perhaps a little artistic ability was involved.
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Most people do not know, but a trace amount of a toxic chemical called atractyligenin is found in the coffee you and I drink. There have been several studies attempting to link long term exposure to various types of cancer. One was even in Science. All of them have been largely ignored.
High doses in the short term have other nasty effects, however. Shutting down certain sugar cycles in your body, among other things. Deaths from atractyligenin are common in Africa, where they use plants containing the chemical for natural remedies.
A google search doesn't reveal much, but if you're interested, there is a great deal of information about atractyloside, a derivatized form of atractyligenin.
Aparently, you can even store them at 400 degrees F.
I didn't learn too much in the required labs, but spending a semester or a summer in a lab doing research you will learn more than any number of classes or books you read.
It turns out that the chemistry research lab I work at uses Macs exclusively and gets new boxes rather frequently. I was hooked on OSX this summer and recently purchased an iBook (that I use more than any of my other plethora of computers).
Take a look for yourself!
Wasn't "Open Source" just another name for communism?