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I’m not gonna lie / This timetable’s rather sweet / Compared to before // Still not as good as / Those history students, but / I’LL have a career // BS1006 / Practical was pretty fun / (I didn’t cycle) // Pretty hectic week / Outside academia / Killed many neurons // Need to catch up on / #BS1011 / (Pronounce that hash too) // All in all, life’s good / Got a lovely cup of tea / And biscuits. Cox out. - Jack Anthony Cox

Hmm. The last week. Nearly overdosed on caffeine on both Thursday night and last night trying to do the #BS1009 essay (finished with what I believe to be an impressive half hour to spare!), very glad to have a bit of free time thanks to our new BA timetable (kudos to Ben for coming up with that). Annoyed though slightly amused that the elections for the BSS messed up, so if anybody's voted for me for Vice President, it doesn't count I'm afraid - vote again tomorrow (from 2pm I believe) and I will somehow incorporate pancakes into my manifesto, also IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY and I'm going to use this shamefully to try and get more votes - vote for me tomorrow, it'll be a perfect present! Cox out. - Jack Anthony Cox

Check it out, I used Google Reader and everything :D COME ON GUYS, even if you don't vote for me you should vote for someone anyway! - Jack Anthony Cox

Zebra? Buffalo? Pfft, easy targets. THIS is impressive. Lion taking down a giraffe, relates to #BS1013 I guess as we spent a lecture watching a video on lions today. I suppose this backs up what was said at the end about lions surviving as well alone as they do in a large pride (and in my search I encountered a video of about 30 lions attacking an elephant which, unfortunately, failed to show the moment they took it down - it skipped from a few of them clinging to it to them suddenly eating it) - Jack Anthony Cox

#BS1013 essay, whilst I got off to a glorious 1000+ word start on Wednesday or Thursday over the course of a few hours, seems to have ground to an abrupt halt. I guess that's what happens when you do nothing over the weekend due to a friend visiting. Still, I have 23 hours and 35 minutes to get it done (and I hope any religious inclinations my marker may have is outweighed by their sense of humour), though I'd also rather get my #BS1005 one finished and make a decent start on my #BS1009 seeing as I have an even more hectic weekend planned and I don't really fancy spending my birthday in the library finishing it off. Also a little concerned that I managed to miss a couple of practicals, especially considering in one of them my lab partner also managed to miss it. After such a good start too, the first thing I missed this term was the 9am lecture at the end of week 3. Mustnotslipintobadhabitsagain. Cox out. - Jack Anthony Cox

I found this very amusing. Probably my favourite example of symbiosis, this, and I wondered, with it being such a remarkable relationship, whether any religious people with a misunderstanding of evolution would try to use it to prove the existence of a god. Googled 'Yucca moth god' and, lo and behold, this crops up - enjoy! - Jack Anthony Cox

Things are getting a tad hectic, what with three essays due (taking a well deserved break from one now by doing this), on top of which are all the lab reports and BS1011 quiz's that spring up all over the place. I'm definately feeling sorry for my genes tutor - this essay might as well be written in the style of a branching plot gamebook ("if the F1 are blue, move on to paragraph 3..."), it looks impossible to write well enough to follow without having to look back and read other bits. Ah well, it could become easier once I get some diagrams. Looks like I'll be spending a bit of time in the library after the test tomorrow, very much looking forward to a cheeky pint at the Leicester uni cider festival after the microbiology lecture. - Jack Anthony Cox

That made me giggle! - Gracie Okafo

same here !! - Lydia Mary Davis

I just did maths at it. - Jack Anthony Cox

ALTHOUGH I AM IN NO WAY ENDORSING USING CHEAP SUBSTITUTES FOR LEARNING WHAT WE SHOULD BE LEARNING - Jack Anthony Cox

I think I know what happened - I assumed this was a bit of a trick question to catch the people who weren't really paying attention out (why else would 'none of the above' be an option on so many?), but maybe it was just a typing error - it should maybe have read 'how much *energy* does the body consume per second?' - Jack Anthony Cox

If you click on #UoLFeedback you get search results. If it a search doesn't have the answer on the first page then there's a link 'Older Item' and you can move back to earlier entries. To save you the time I found the answer here --> http://ff.im/uiwmN - Dr Alun Salt

Ah right, I must have linked to the wrong thing. But yes, what Jo Badge said. :) - Dr Alun Salt

Usually there is 10% leeway. - Dr Jo Badge from iPod

Turned out it didn't matter after all- it was just a rough guide so we knew how much to write. I shortened it down as well, so there was no need for it after all. :/ nvm. - Rebecca Suter

Found this article which talks about the human genome and how most of the DNA codes for nothing. It was found that 7% of our DNA has similarities with other species suggesting it has been conserved. Of that 7%, 85% of the conserved DNA doesn't code for any protein. Geneticists now think that this non-coding DNA could be useful in regulating how proteins are translated. This reinforces the lectures that were given in #BS1015 by Prof Cundliffe. - Tom Lewis

There's always retrovirus' and defunct genes too. Natural selection will, over maaaaaaany many years, slowly filter out DNA that actually does nothing, but the microscopic advantage of one less useless base pair here and there has a tiny effect, and in terms of evolution, the rate at which junk DNA is being deleted isn't as fast as the rate at which it's appearing, so we have all this junk. That's one theory, anyway... - Jack Anthony Cox

Yes, all elements symbols start with a capital letter. - Dr Alan Cann

Ah brilliant, yes I was referring to the words, thank you :) - Jack Anthony Cox

I know what you mean. I was told it'd be a big step up, but I was a little sceptical because I was told that for the step from school to college too, and it wasn't. But yes, there is definately quite a jump :) - Jack Anthony Cox

Thank you :) - Emma Mitchell

Loving the music for this (and of course a very useful and informative video) - Jack Anthony Cox

"Researchers at Arizona State University have recently used origami to fold DNA into a Möbius strip. Why? Because its frickin' cool, that’s why. The scientists, who hail from the departments of biophysics, chemistry, and biochemistry, chose to make one out of DNA "not only because it is artistically inspiring, but also because it will likely display unique material properties that may be applied to create novel molecular devices."" - Dr Alan Cann from Bookmarklet

That is quite amazing, I think "frickin' cool" sums it up nicely :) I think I read about an attempt to make a map or something out of DNA, I'll go and have a look for it now - Jack Anthony Cox

http://www.nature.com/nature... - Jack Anthony Cox

Just a few days ago, I saw a book in the library bookshop, something along the lines of "An Introduction to Chaos Theory" - a subject I'm quite interested in, and would probably have chased up if I had taken a maths degree. I was tempted to buy it, but decided it would only be a distraction from the already hectic biology work I have to do. Then I saw this article on the RSS feed yesterday, and I was amazed - Chaos Theory tying in with Evolution! Not directly relevent to any current modules, but certainly of interest to the subject of Biology as a whole. Plus I will probably read around this and take it along to the #BS1003 tutorial next week :) - Jack Anthony Cox

Naaaaaaaah. Microscopes and maths. Hmm. Has a nice ring to it that - "Microscopes and Maths". - Jack Anthony Cox

The point is that your should not include in references papers which you have not read, i.e. don't take references from other references without reading them. - Dr Alan Cann

But will I need to mention the original in my essay? For example, "(original author) is referenced by (suchabody) (1)..." then a reference only to (suchabody) at the end - is that fine? - Jack Anthony Cox

best practice is to only include references for authors that you have read, therefore in your example, you should go and read "(original author)" not just (suchabody) :-) - Dr Jo Badge

Great job! :) - Joshua Bower

And cheers! - Jack Anthony Cox