You're right, it's not rocket science. It's biology, and is thus not intuitively obvious from the physical processes that you would like to break it down to. The foods we eat affect our metabolism, which changes our energy expenditure. Also, it takes less energy to store dietary fat as body fat than excess calories from carbs or protein.
Don't be so dismissive of things you clearly don't fully understand.
I'm a student at Caltech, and my astronomy professor just happened to be at observing at Keck last night when this happened. Apparently, because GRBs are over so quickly, when the call comes in that Swift has detected one, you are forced to stop what you are doing and gather data for the GRB astronomers. My professor wasn't exactly thrilled.
Anyway, in lecture this afternoon, he showed us some of the first spectral analysis of this event. He showed how the characteristic lines (of elements like sodium, oxygen, etc.) of the galaxy that it had to shine through had been redshifted, and how the amount of redshift was used to determine the distance to the GRB.
It was interesting stuff. Then he started talking about inflationary theory and I fell asleep.
My family breeds Oldenbergs, which are a breed of large German warmbloods (horses). Now they are just used for dressage, but they used to be used as warhorses. So if our space-Amish ever start an intergalactic war with the alien Amish, you know who to call!
Look for a laptop with Centrino processor/mobo/wifi. The processor is either an older Banias (still good) or a great Dothan core. These are Intel processors designed for laptops, so they put power consumption at a minimum. You can also choose a slower spinning hard drive for longer battery life, and the cost of some performance.
"Okay, here's a reason why the US Army would like to reduce the amount of water consumed by soldiers."
For a second there, I thought this was going to be one of the pseudo-serious first posts, discussing the horrors of chlorinated (!!!) water. Calm down General Ripper!
"i don't think presidents create or kill jobs"
Can I hold you to those words if and when jobs are created? Because I can GUARANTEE that Bush would claim it as his doing.
I was working with a self-publishing physics professor over the summer who used Macs exclusively and used Adobe software. While not exactly the same, it worked similarly. I'm saying that having more choice or a free option is a bad thing, just perhaps not an important thing.
Given the price of a Mac, is *free* that big of a deal? Open source I understand, but it doesn't seem that anyone who can afford a Mac can't afford an office suite.
Good Suggestions. Also, you should definitely avoid Zumdahl's chemistry texts. They are ok if you have a teacher, but are completely incomprehensible (they even sound ridiculous when read aloud) if the understanding isn't already there.
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You're right, it's not rocket science. It's biology, and is thus not intuitively obvious from the physical processes that you would like to break it down to. The foods we eat affect our metabolism, which changes our energy expenditure. Also, it takes less energy to store dietary fat as body fat than excess calories from carbs or protein. Don't be so dismissive of things you clearly don't fully understand.
I first read it as "Quantum Enlargement."
That's just swamp gas reflected off of Venus.
Maiden offers first child for someone to spin gold from straw.
I'm a student at Caltech, and my astronomy professor just happened to be at observing at Keck last night when this happened. Apparently, because GRBs are over so quickly, when the call comes in that Swift has detected one, you are forced to stop what you are doing and gather data for the GRB astronomers. My professor wasn't exactly thrilled. Anyway, in lecture this afternoon, he showed us some of the first spectral analysis of this event. He showed how the characteristic lines (of elements like sodium, oxygen, etc.) of the galaxy that it had to shine through had been redshifted, and how the amount of redshift was used to determine the distance to the GRB. It was interesting stuff. Then he started talking about inflationary theory and I fell asleep.
Only at the Caltech branch.
Ok fine, it also serves the fine job of being America's wang.
My family breeds Oldenbergs, which are a breed of large German warmbloods (horses). Now they are just used for dressage, but they used to be used as warhorses. So if our space-Amish ever start an intergalactic war with the alien Amish, you know who to call!
Look for a laptop with Centrino processor/mobo/wifi. The processor is either an older Banias (still good) or a great Dothan core. These are Intel processors designed for laptops, so they put power consumption at a minimum. You can also choose a slower spinning hard drive for longer battery life, and the cost of some performance.
"Okay, here's a reason why the US Army would like to reduce the amount of water consumed by soldiers." For a second there, I thought this was going to be one of the pseudo-serious first posts, discussing the horrors of chlorinated (!!!) water. Calm down General Ripper!
"i don't think presidents create or kill jobs" Can I hold you to those words if and when jobs are created? Because I can GUARANTEE that Bush would claim it as his doing.
"Can I at least keep the beer?" -Negative, we have to question it.
Errr... that should say "not saying"
I was working with a self-publishing physics professor over the summer who used Macs exclusively and used Adobe software. While not exactly the same, it worked similarly. I'm saying that having more choice or a free option is a bad thing, just perhaps not an important thing.
Given the price of a Mac, is *free* that big of a deal? Open source I understand, but it doesn't seem that anyone who can afford a Mac can't afford an office suite.
Good Suggestions. Also, you should definitely avoid Zumdahl's chemistry texts. They are ok if you have a teacher, but are completely incomprehensible (they even sound ridiculous when read aloud) if the understanding isn't already there.