“expn2379” by NOAA Photo Library is licensed under CC BY 2.0. When people picture life in the deep sea, they often imagine frightening, or perhaps bizarre creatures lurking in the darkness. The giant squid, the anglerfish, and even the peculiar blobfish have all earned reputations for being the strangest inhabitants of the sea. These creatures […]
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59:55 59:54 59:53 59:52 I started reading through the first question, which was already worth 19 out of the total 100 points. Bonding Orbitals are HIGHER/LOWER in energy compared to antibonding orbitals. What the hell is an antibonding orbital? I thought to myself. For a moment, I assumed someone might have mentioned it in
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The Best Offer I’ve Gotten in High School I’ve written a lot of articles on this blog. When I started writing this, I had 69 of them live on Inside A Wandering Mind. (Correction from future me as I edit this much later: 74 now.) That’s a lot of articles, and there’s a lot of
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Introduction The Earth is a special planet in the universe for a variety of reasons. The two most famous of these, of course, are the fact that the Earth has life and the immense variety of environments in which life thrives. Earth boasts an impressive portfolio of over 9 million different Eukaryotic Species (although only
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DNA, otherwise formally known as Deoxyribonucleic Acid. It’s one of the most important, unifying parts of biology (at least for biology on Earth) that almost everyone on Planet Earth is aware of. (Yes, I’m talking to YOU in particular. You know who you are.) Denying its crucial place in biology is like trying to convince
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Cells. No matter how bad you think you are at biology, you’ve almost definitely heard of cells. These are one of the most fundamental units in biology, but they can also prove to be some of the most complicated things that the universe has to offer. They’ve got dozens of different organelles that many of
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Proteins Biomolecules, but it’s a Friend Group When someone says the word “biomolecule” to you, you might be quick to imagine some fancy science terms or some super-obscure diagram. You might think of some diverse field of study with lots of intricacies and complex concepts that you’ll never be able to understand. And it is
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If you’ve read my previous Course Reviews, you’ll probably remember that Integrated 2 was hell for a lot of students taking that path. Every teacher in Integrated 2 always justified their harsh grading with Oh, you think we’re grading hard? Wait until you get to Integrated 3. They grade so much more difficult than we
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WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- How did I survive this?! This is one of the hardest- possibly the hardest class offered at my school altogether! I struggled so much in Regular Chemistry 2- barely made the A range; I got destroyed, honestly, for most the class wasn’t even hard… but now I ace this with flying colors?
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This is the beginning of my sophomore year course review- the first class on the first day, and probably as easy as classes will get in my sophomore year. I’m writing this less than a week after trimester 1 ended, and overall I’d say this is as easy as the Tri gets, which is to
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