I completed 5 dives this weekend for my advanced scuba diving certification. The adventure dives I completed included a deep dive, navigation dive, search and recovery, naturalist and a night dive.
The night dive was the one I was the most apprehensive about and it was the coolest dive I did. There is so much more [...]
-Patella Femoral Pain Syndrome
Translation? Patella means kneecap, Femoral refers the Femur, a bone in your leg, and the rest is self explanetory. So all it this really says s that you have pain in your kneecap.
Not a diagnosis, its more like just a term. What does this have to do with anything? My doctor [...]
Our bodies produce hundreds of chemicals, but one that I notice in particular being produced is lactic acid (C3H6O3) .
Ever noticed a burning sensation in your muscles during a power-intensive workout?
You have lactic acid to thank. During hard exercises (such as sprinting up hills, for one!), your body produces more lactic acid than it can [...]
Its really hard to colonize someplace when you send people there, they contract malaria and they die. Quinine was the first effective treatment of malaria. After that, Africa stopped being the “white man’s grave” and another British colony.
Well, in terms of the psychology experiment, I definitely was correct in my previous post regarding the argumentative factor of the Echinoderms Vs. Mollusks.
In fact, there is even a blog response by Kevin at Deep Sea News regarding my cavalier attitude on the coolness of snails. After he mentions Endosymbiotic bacteria, I must admit, [...]
I’ve heard so many people knowingly talk about how the Human Population growth is exponential and how there are way too many of us. I just want to finally correct this long standing assumption of exponential growth.
The Human Population is NOT growing exponentially.
In population mathematics, growth rate is measured by the formula b-d=r. The rate [...]
Plenty of people have heard about the advances in finding green fuels, like getting fuel from soybeans or corn, but now research is continuing on the implementation of certain types of algae (pond scum) as an alternative fuel source.
Fifty percent of the weight of algae is oil, and they are incredibly fast growing (which can [...]
Kallen is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Biology and Journalism at the University of Oregon and, of course, writing a blog.