Science Rules!

[Mourning Dove]

I've used the search function and haven't found a thread like this yet, so I'm making it now.

This is where we can sperg and discuss about all things science. Biology, chemistry, physics, to name a few disciplines. To be honest, in my adulthood I've been more of a science nerd than video game/anime/etc. nerd. I grew up watching the shit out of Bill Nye the science guy and the Magic School Bus. But now the information taught in those shows seem kind of...basic now.

And speaking of basic...

Spoiler: All about that base (no acid)

 

[BrokenEntity]

Man, I could sit here all day and talk about engineering!
Too bad it's nighttime right now.
Guess I'll say something tomorrow?

 

[Bugaboo]

I like Biology
I like Entomology and Herpetology

 

[Mourning Dove]

Neil deGrasse Tyson is bae.

Spoiler: Big Images

 

[John Titor]

I was really into Astronomy and Biology. Still am and I do get excited when I hear possibilities of Earth-like planets. Games made me curious about Computer Science because people who did Translation Patches were like sorcerers to me. I don't really have a specialty but I just know bits and pieces from different fields. If there's anything I want to change in High School, it's to be more involved in science and not fall to peer pressure by some dipshit fratboy-wannabes I use to call friends.

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

I like linguistics - there's a channel on YouTube from a university in Germany that has linguistics videos. They also run MOOC's.

There are also astronomy, bird watching and mineralogy clubs near me that I'd go to if I could.

Other than that - I'm also interested in computer science.

 

[The Knife's Husbando]

I'm an engineering nerd, former blacksmith, ballistics junkie and all around fabrication sperg, I'm in.

Also, check out our group Dark Mechanicum. (lol) it's getting lonely in there.

https://kiwifarms.net/groups/dark-mechanicum.85/

 

[Jomadre]

I had most of my former pathfinder group convinced that the Helvetica Scenario happens in real life...

 

[BrokenEntity]

One thing that's made me excited recently is the fact that we can now build DIY smartwatches!
http://m.instructables.com/id/Make-your-own-smart-watch/

The excitement will never end.

If you want a kit to make one for $99, here's the link to tinyduino's smartwatch kit page.

https://tiny-circuits.com/tinyscreen-smart-watch-kit-161.html

 

[BentDuck]

Science has always been my favorite subject. About the only thing I didn't like was chemistry, but now I love it. I'm currently taking a refresher chemistry course in coursera to get myself ready for the PCAT.

I'm about to start my senior year as a Neuroscience major and I'm hoping to go into Pharmacy school, but I don't plan on becoming a pharmacist, I'm hoping to become a Neuroscience researcher. I want to research the mechanisms of the development of Alzheimer's Disease, but recently, I've become interested in genetics and I would also love to explore Neuroscience from an epigenetic perspective.

If I were better at math and abstract thinking, I think I would have loved to have been a theoretical physicist, but I know that having trouble with calculus meant that I probably wouldn't be suited for such a career.

Anyways, anybody who is interested in genetics and biology should look up neoteny.

David Brin does a good job of explaining what neoteny is and how through sexual selection, we as a species evolved the traits we have today.

http://www.davidbrin.com/neoteny1.html

 

[Mourning Dove]

I like Biology
I like Entomology and Herpetology

 

[c-no]

I'm not much of a science fan but I did find one bit of science interesting in terms of Biology. In a way, we are related to other animals due to sharing a distant common ancestor if one were to look at bone structure. Also in another way, everything is made of the same matter, whether it was water, trees, people, apes.

 

[BentDuck]

I'm not much of a science fan but I did find one bit of science interesting in terms of Biology. In a way, we are related to other animals due to sharing a distant common ancestor if one were to look at bone structure. Also in another way, everything is made of the same matter, whether it was water, trees, people, apes.

And to think, the wide variety of diversity that we see today all came from a single ancestor billions of years ago. It's pretty mind blowing to think and kind of puts things into perspective.

 

[Lady Houligan]

Science has always been my favorite subject. About the only thing I didn't like was chemistry, but now I love it. I'm currently taking a refresher chemistry course in coursera to get myself ready for the PCAT.

I'm about to start my senior year as a Neuroscience major and I'm hoping to go into Pharmacy school, but I don't plan on becoming a pharmacist, I'm hoping to become a Neuroscience researcher. I want to research the mechanisms of the development of Alzheimer's Disease, but recently, I've become interested in genetics and I would also love to explore Neuroscience from an epigenetic perspective.

If I were better at math and abstract thinking, I think I would have loved to have been a theoretical physicist, but I know that having trouble with calculus meant that I probably wouldn't be suited for such a career.

Anyways, anybody who is interested in genetics and biology should look up neoteny.

David Brin does a good job of explaining what neoteny is and how through sexual selection, we as a species evolved the traits we have today.

http://www.davidbrin.com/neoteny1.html

I started out college with a major in Molecular Biology with the intent to become a research scientist because I wanted to work on pharmacology research, especially focusing on Alzheimer's and Lou Gehrig's Disease. Didn't work out, unfortunately (I got to the more intensive lab classes and realized I wasn't cut out for 40 hours a week staring at petri dishes.) So I wish you the best of luck in getting into that field.

 

[Red]

For a very long time of my life, I wanted to be a paleobiologist and specialize in the Burgess Shale. Seriously, the critters you find there are unlike anything else in the world. The Cambrian explosion, and the eras before it, produced amazing lifeforms that we know so precious little about.
Bill Nye talks about it here.

 

[Zeorus]

I'm a humanities scholar by trade (musicology 4eva), but I will take a moment to say that there are times when we envy you. Like how you can publish a failed hypothesis. If I have a thesis or idea that I want to prove in an article, I have to stick with it from top to bottom.

Lucky bastards.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

http://tolweb.org/tree/

One of my favorite science sites.

 

[Philosophy Zombie]

http://htwins.net/scale2/ (needs flash)
This is pretty cool.

 

[FramerGirl420]

 

[c-no]

And to think, the wide variety of diversity that we see today all came from a single ancestor billions of years ago. It's pretty mind blowing to think and kind of puts things into perspective.

As far as coming from a single ancestor goes, I honestly kinda found it funny with how some different cultures had their own mythologies on how humanity came such as a Mongolian myth of a wolf and deer having a human baby. This kinda made me thought (in what may as well be a stupid way, though this is considering back with common ancestor and learning that everything is made of the same matter) that some of this myths wouldn't be too far off in saying we share a similarity with some animal or something from the enviroment. As I said, it may as well sound stupid and the way I thought on this can no doubt be stupid but it kinda made me think of how somethings unrelated could share something that has some sort of similarity.

To be more on topic with science, as far as it went doing biology in my last semester, I did enjoy something I did with my lab peers. It can be interesting to see things through a microscope, even if it does bother the eyes in some way.