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Tag: scientific method
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Ask Questions
I find myself a little frustrated and annoyed today. I had been given a Christmas giftcard by my boss, for Amazon. My immediate thought was ‘I’ll buy a book!’ because it would enable me to spend a bit more on a book than I’d ordinarily spend on myself. These days, when I buy paper books,…
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Regressing
After Drak recommended God in the Dock in response to yesterday’s post, I picked it up. It’s been a while since I read CS Lewis, and I knew I hadn’t read that collection of essays. I’m delighted I impulse bought this book. The essays are a broad collection, apologetics, yes, but it’s Lewis. He had…
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Precision and Accuracy
I may have written an essay about this topic before, but you know, I think it bears revisiting. For one thing, every time I write about something, I am coming back to it with deeper understanding, more experience, and a changed outlook. I can’t help it, really. Time is not static, therefore neither am I.…
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The Human Desire for Answers
Life doesn’t always have answers. Some of life’s greatest mysteries have been solved, yes, but many more have not. The human drive to seek out new knowledge, find answers, and lay to rest false ideas is a grand one. It’s a drive that will hopefully take us to the stars, and beyond. However, like any…
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Experimentum Periculosum
Continuing with Hippocrates’ pithy philosophical statement, we find that experiment is dangerous. As I am working in a chemistry lab, I have to say that indeed, it is. Even tried and true methods will occasionally fail, and many use dangerous chemicals in the course of carrying out an assay. But yet, we continue. Safety is…
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Gel Electrophoresis
Purpose: DNA is negatively charged, so when fragments of it are subjected to an electrical current, they will migrate away from the negative pole and toward the positive. This principle allows the sorting of DNA fragments by size in an agarose gel, as smaller fragments will move faster than larger ones. By using a molecular…