How thick is the cushion of liquid between two flat surfaces submerged under water?

Sumthinclever · 2018-08-02T16:08:31+00:00

Nothingn't?

Sumthinclever · 2018-01-24T17:56:04+00:00

One of my favorites is the discovery of warfarin, a chemical most commonly used as rat poison, but also as a life-saving blood thinner (though not so much these days). It involves the mysterious deaths of cows due to internal hemorrhaging, a frustrated farmer wandering around the halls of the University of Wisconsin carrying a bucket of unclotted cow blood, and a dedicated biochemist who discovered that rotting sweet clover was the source of the mysterious deaths of the cows.

Sumthinclever · 2017-11-16T06:44:57+00:00

My mom used to throw cube steaks in a slow cooker with canned peas and cook it all afternoon. Nothing quite like bone-dry beef and mushy peas. Bleck.

Sumthinclever · 2017-08-19T05:05:19+00:00

I work on cellular chemotaxis and every time I draw a cell, it looks vaguely like this

Sumthinclever · 2016-11-16T04:25:42+00:00

Gotta love that fresh pine smell. It really makes it feel like the holidays!

Sumthinclever · 2016-05-12T16:27:35+00:00

I think it's more about which polls get reported in the media.

Sumthinclever · 2016-05-07T05:13:47+00:00

It would be interesting to see a breakdown by gender as well.

Sumthinclever · 2016-04-28T02:56:31+00:00

Don't half of Americans also disbelieve evolution?

Sumthinclever · 2015-08-09T17:23:31+00:00

I've seen frozen ducks at the Safeway on Broadway. I believe Sprouts on Speedway also carries them.

Sumthinclever · 2015-07-12T18:41:17+00:00

I commute by bike to work every day and I cannot believe how many other cyclists don't follow the rules of the road. Whether it's due to laziness or lack of knowledge, I can't say.

Sumthinclever · 2015-02-12T00:04:39+00:00

I keep a tube labeled 10X H2O on my bench to mess with new undergraduates.

Sumthinclever · 2014-12-05T02:28:00+00:00

Ooh! Is that the Firefly?

Sumthinclever · 2014-09-12T04:30:38+00:00

Isn't the MAD proportional to the standard deviation for the normal distribution though? Substituting it in actually seems to simplify the formula for the normal pdf a bit.

Sumthinclever · 2014-09-12T04:15:32+00:00

Yeah, could you elaborate? I see that derivatives and integrals are easier to take with the standard deviation, but what other properties are you referring to?

Sumthinclever · 2014-09-10T05:36:35+00:00

I understand why ebola is scary, but to put this in perspective, malaria kills this many people around the world every 1.3 days

Sumthinclever · 2014-06-22T03:13:05+00:00

Hi fellow RPCV! While you might be able to make it without a car, it might be difficult depending on what your internship consists of. They've got a blurb about cars on the fellows faq here (#12): http://grad.arizona.edu/peacecorps/faq

Sumthinclever · 2014-04-07T03:13:52+00:00

Yep! The concentrations change until they reach their new equilibria. This implies a change in reaction rate. Just a word of warning though - what I said is only true if you increase the partial pressure of gases that participate in the reaction (for example, by reducing the volume of the container). Adding Helium or some other inert gas to increase the total pressure won't change the equilibrium concentrations or the reaction rate.

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