Galileo Tesla Einstein Newton Da Vinci Edison (if nothing else, he did a LOT of work with the light bulb, and where would be we without that?) Hawking
I can't think of any more, but there are a lot of noteworthy people. As for the defintion of a geek, Gallieo was even excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Chruch for trying to disprove the Ptomely (sp? and I can't remeber if it was Ptomley or Archimidian) world view. This view was where the sun and all the planets, etc revolved around the earth. the reasoning was along the line of "Everything getting closer to God". (sort of a man being the center of the universe", and it also nicely explained the reason why apples fall to the ground.) However, that's not something I remeber all the details of very well.
There are a lot of different options available. I'd recommend taking some basic chemistry and biology courses at least. And I agree that whatever you do in life should be becuase at least you enjoy somewhere. Whatever your job is, and it may drive you nuts somedays, but if you enjoy your work overall, it's not going to be quite as much of a pain to get up and go to work. Specifically, biotechnology isn't the only way to go. Biomedical Engr is a degree that has been slowly catching on at some major Universities. Generally, these things cross disciplines. As a graduate degree (some are offered as a B.S. though) biomed engr can cover things from computational biomechanics, bio signal processing and control, tissue research, imaging, and work on the cellular level. A lot of it depends on what you want to do in biotechnology. Do you want to work on things at the cellular level, or would you rather be designing imaging tools? (things like a cat-scan machine, for example) Biomedical or even Biotechnology often cover these things. I'd really suggest if you REALLY enjoy the work, that you go after it, though. These are basically research jobs, and that means right now they don't generally pay that well. (Yes, you'd probably be able to make more money in CS). Having something else to fall back on is a good idea as well. Any chem engr, elec engr, mech engr, or probably any kind of engr, could go after this degree. And yes, they are also looking for CS majors. Math and physics would probably be able to do this as well. And for those wondering, I'm a computer engineering major. I almost went into biology for years, and put it down for a some time, until I realized how much I missed it. I did enjoy what I was doing, but the silly college I ended up with (that's a long story) has no biology major. So, I went back to computers for now. I've looked into biomed engr quite a bit in the last year or so. I may end up going the graduate degree route, I don't know yet:)
"an ectomorphic body shape/type also handles G's better than a tall, thin endomorphic type. . "
That part of the sentence is a contradiction. I'm assuming you accidently switched the two.:) An endomorph is not the tall thin type, that's an ectomorph. An endomorph is more of your "heavier, big boned" type. And just for another useless bit of info, most people are mesomorphs which is the body type between the two.
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not in any order
Galileo
Tesla
Einstein
Newton
Da Vinci
Edison (if nothing else, he did a LOT of work with the light bulb, and where would be we without that?)
Hawking
I can't think of any more, but there are a lot of noteworthy people.
As for the defintion of a geek, Gallieo was even excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Chruch for trying to disprove the Ptomely (sp? and I can't remeber if it was Ptomley or Archimidian) world view.
This view was where the sun and all the planets, etc revolved around the earth. the reasoning was along the line of "Everything getting closer to God". (sort of a man being the center of the universe", and it also nicely explained the reason why apples fall to the ground.)
However, that's not something I remeber all the details of very well.
There are a lot of different options available. I'd recommend taking some basic chemistry and biology courses at least. And I agree that whatever you do in life should be becuase at least you enjoy somewhere. Whatever your job is, and it may drive you nuts somedays, but if you enjoy your work overall, it's not going to be quite as much of a pain to get up and go to work. :)
Specifically, biotechnology isn't the only way to go. Biomedical Engr is a degree that has been slowly catching on at some major Universities. Generally, these things cross disciplines. As a graduate degree (some are offered as a B.S. though) biomed engr can cover things from computational biomechanics, bio signal processing and control, tissue research, imaging, and work on the cellular level. A lot of it depends on what you want to do in biotechnology.
Do you want to work on things at the cellular level, or would you rather be designing imaging tools? (things like a cat-scan machine, for example) Biomedical or even Biotechnology often cover these things.
I'd really suggest if you REALLY enjoy the work, that you go after it, though. These are basically research jobs, and that means right now they don't generally pay that well. (Yes, you'd probably be able to make more money in CS). Having something else to fall back on is a good idea as well.
Any chem engr, elec engr, mech engr, or probably any kind of engr, could go after this degree. And yes, they are also looking for CS majors. Math and physics would probably be able to do this as well.
And for those wondering, I'm a computer engineering major. I almost went into biology for years, and put it down for a some time, until I realized how much I missed it. I did enjoy what I was doing, but the silly college I ended up with (that's a long story) has no biology major. So, I went back to computers for now. I've looked into biomed engr quite a bit in the last year or so. I may end up going the graduate degree route, I don't know yet
(from a former biology major)
:) An endomorph is not the tall thin type, that's an ectomorph. An endomorph is more of your "heavier, big boned" type. And just for another useless bit of info, most people are mesomorphs which is the body type between the two.
"an ectomorphic body shape/type also handles G's better than a tall, thin endomorphic type. . "
That part of the sentence is a contradiction. I'm assuming you accidently switched the two.
So far the company sounds promising, and penguin's website looks good.
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(I know I didn't say much, but hey it's my first post, and at any rate, Ii had to prove that so far, somebody read this