Anschaulichkeit

I just bought this book " Introducing Quantum Theory " and it's gotten me immersed in the thrilling discovery of more and more 'quantum weirdness'. Now I know the difference between classical physics and quantum physics and how some loathe quantum. It's a different type of narration in this book, they took the comic book format and delivered the ideas pretty well.

It makes me want to study Quantum Physics, but however due to my mathematical language barrier, I don't think I'll wanna get entangled with it. But there's one thing I hope Life Sciences would be : To be as predictive as how Physics has been.

Physics is full of formulas but they are pretty powerful in terms of prediction, while in biological sciences, I feel it's more of extraction, insertion and let's watch what happens. It's pretty endless I'd say - so many species, so many genotypes!

But then again I hope that enzymes structures can be elucidated with just a few formulas in future. I'm falling in love with enzymes lately. Heh.


Bis Bald.

Maybe I can up my mathematical prowess in the German Vaterland of Physics! =)

Drawing blood from mice

Today i was quite deeply disturbed when I heard one of the ways to draw blood from mice was to withdraw from its EYES. I was like OMG, that's bloody inhumane. I came back and searched info on it and yes, there's such a technique.

At first impression, you'll probably think of poking the eyes with a capillary tube or something. Turns out that blood is drawn from orbital sinus instead, but the risk of injuring the eyes are still very high! From what I read it isn't really a much advocated technique (really disturbing, i feel).

If you all wanna have a read, here it is : http://www.umic.sunysb.edu/newitems/mouseblood.pdf

This : http://www.medipoint.com/html/animal_lancets.html on the other hand, looks slightly better.

Geez. I guess I'll stick to microbes and fungi next time. Heh.