Thursday, December 9, 2010

Afew links of interest

Class,

Newsweek has a double feature for us.
 First, please read the article "can we blame extreme weather on climate change?"  It nicely explains a computer model that indicates our actions are causing problems.

Second, I'm a little more red-faced about this one.  Perhaps the As-nucleotide press conference was jumping the gun (and my test question).  Check out these criticisms.

Friday, December 3, 2010

quiz question

Here's the question from the quiz.  Choose either #1 or #2
  1. Explain how a N atom in one of your stomach enzymes got there from starting as an air molecule (N2)
  2. Explain how a C atom in one of your stomach enzymes got there from starting as an air molecule (CO2)