So I was playing FFXII last night around 1 AM, wrapping up for the night, when I hear people running up and down the hall and pounding on everyone's door. Then the fire alarm went off. Julia, our RA, burst in and said, "This is a real fire drill!" which confused me for a minute. (A real drill? Which is it?) I pondered grabbing my laptop, but ( Read more... )

So I was sitting in Biochem this morning and Dr. Slunt was explaining an extra credit opportunity. The University of Tennessee puts on webcasts of some of its notable lectures and there is one scheduled for this Thursday about bridging the gap between protein and polymer chemistry by using non-standard amino acids to construct synthetic proteins. ( Read more... )

I'm an idiot. Forgive me?