Earth History, Call of Duty 4 and finishing Biology

This week I spent trying to prepare my biology paper as best as I could. I still had questions to finish for a primate phylogeny question. I also worked on glucose oxidation, ecology and energy, Mendel’s laws of segregation and Darwin’s natural selection. I must admit that this can get much harder than physics and is on par with chemistry, although I do enjoy it.

I wanted to get a good on-line multiplayer game for my new PC and so I went with Call of Duty 4 because I read and heard impressive things about it and I am a fan of COD1 and 2. I think COD4 is much better than Counter-Strike:Source and that says a lot. It looks like Activision has put Valve to the test with their awesome modern warfare simulator. Who would ever have believed it? The single player mode is also worth enjoying.

As I leave biology for this part of the course I move onto Earth History. This gets very interesting and covers mainly aspects of the fossil record, rock formation and radiometric dating. I am watching BBC’s Earth Story to help put some pieces together. I recommend Earth History to anyone attracted to the amazing story of how we have dated the Earth.

Metal Gear Solid 4 and mRNA

Well last week I decided to splash out on a Playstation 3 and I must admit I am very happy with this console. I can watch my computer files over my wireless 54g on my TV. I got the PS3 with Grand Theft Auto IV but I decided to get Metal Gear Solid 4 this week so I could have two PS3 games. MGS4 is maybe one of the best games I have ever played. It is seriously good and the graphics are like nothing I have ever seen before. I highly recommend it.

On the study front I am in the last week of Biology. I love genetics, DNA and mRNA. How RNA works is spectacular. I never thought the assembly of sequenced amino acids could be so simple. The process will blow away who looks into it. This week I am going to be studying Darwinism and evolution so I am on happy ground. I passed my Chemistry exam! The biology one is going to be harder but we will see how it goes. After this part of the course is finished I will be doing earth history next.

I am still reading Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel. I also managed to pick up Darwin’s The Decent of Man. I always wanted to read it because I loved The Origin of Species and this is that applied to humans. It is us in the making.

Intel Q6600 plus Guns, Germs, and Steel

I have started to read Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond after enjoying his Why is sex fun? The book is about the fate of human societies and does it from the point of view of evolution. I am still studying biology and this week am concentrating on Mendel's laws. I am confident with genetics but the biochem I did last week was some of the toughest science I have come across yet. Glucose oxidation is complex.

The weather is roasting hot here at the moment. Oh yeah and I managed to get a new PC together. Intel Q6600, Geforce 8800, 4 GB Ram, Intel DP35 mobo, 500 GB Sata, Linksys wireless-G and Acer 22" screen. I booted Vista on it because XP doesn't have directX 10. Currently playing Crysis and Bioshock.

Glucose oxidation and Why is sex fun?

Well this week and last have been a most difficult one. I have now come across biochemistry processes in cells and have been blown away by the infinite amount of organic chemistry required. I need to learn it too. I also finished my Chemistry exam and am awaiting results.

I finished reading 'Why is sex fun?' by Jared Diamond and learned some very interesting things about the evolution of recreational sex due to concealed ovulation. I also finished Hitchens' God is not Great and highly recommend its take on political atheism. I put down Atheism: A philosophical justification by Michael Martin and got on with Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith because it covers the basics and I needed these to do Martin's book.

Brno is getting hot now. The weather is fully summer and its lovely. I go to work in shorts and t-shirt in the morning and sleep with my window wide open.