22.10.08

Seems like i will be updating this blog more often now.

Stumble upon this interesting article, Miller-Urey experiments, that shows synthesizing of organic materials from inorganic stuffs.

Excerpt from Wiki.

The experiment used water (H2O), methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), hydrogen (H2), and carbon monoxide (CO). The chemicals were all sealed inside a sterile array of glass tubes and flasks connected together in a loop, with one flask half-full of liquid water and another flask containing a pair of electrodes. The liquid water was heated to induce evaporation, sparks were fired between the electrodes to simulate lightning through the atmosphere and water vapor, and then the atmosphere was cooled again so that the water could condense and trickle back into the first flask in a continuous cycle.
At the end of one week of continuous operation Miller and Urey observed that as much as 10–15% of the carbon within the system was now in the form of organic compounds. Two percent of the carbon had formed amino acids that are used to make proteins in living cells, with glycine as the most abundant. Sugars, lipids, and some of the building blocks for nucleic acids were also formed.

Full article link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller–Urey_experiment

Hmmmm, one of the big grey areas in evolution cleared. Hahahaha and with the LHC created to test big bang, i believe we are all getting real close to the origin of everything.

Another interesting article, on gizmodo, Forget For Good: Chemicals Could Permanently Erase Memories One Day.

Hahahaha now we can forget whatever happened one day before. This comment on gizmodo, Remember: although you may be able to one day forget, it doesn't mean that others will too! Hahahahahah the wit.

Full article link
http://gizmodo.com/5067451/forget-for-good-chemicals-could-permanently-erase-memories-one-day
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/21593/

Another good article that makes me think... Researchers Build X-Ray Machine With Scotch Tape.

Apparently Russian scientist discovered scotch tape can emit x rays 50 odd years ago... Some conspiracy from 3M?

Full article link
http://gizmodo.com/5067362/researchers-build-x+ray-machine-with-scotch-tape

Thats all for now, i think my blog is more of like my own journal/diary of sorts...

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