BK=Bacteria King/Chemwords
Thursday afternoon, I was grocery shopping with my mom at Wal-Mart. I was starving, so hungry I was getting dizzy, and I had a headache. So we went next door to Burger King and I got an Angus Steak Burger Value Meal. I chowed down on the way to the other grocery store, and I felt a little better. But about 4 hours later, I got terrible cramps, acute pain in my belly, nausea, and the headache got worse. Food poisoning. Darn fast food. My cousin, who used to work at that particular Burger King, says they often don't reset the ovens for the thicker burgers like the Angus Steak Burger, so they don't get done all the way, creating a breeding ground for bacteria as they sit on the warmer. Yum.
For about the sixth time, I went into Wal-Mart with two self-addressed, stamped envelopes for the two people who have agreed to write my recommendations for school, and yet again, neither one of them was working. I'm going to try again on Monday. I also sent an email to the College Board to try to find out how much it will be to get all my SAT scores-- regular as well as the two subject tests-- sent. They're in the "archives" because they're so old, and I know it'll be more expensive, I just don't remember how much, and I need to know if they charge extra to send the subject tests. Slowly but surely, my application for SGU is coming together.
In random Chemistry/Math/Science News, Dr. Mark Nandor, professor of math at the Wellington School in Columbus, Ohio has put together a webpage all about English words that can be formed using the symbols from the periodic table of the elements. Not only does he have a list of more than 26,000 words, he also presents interesting facts about words that can be created thus, and chemical word "squares", like this one:
In C U Se
W Ar N Er
Ra B Bi Es
P O Nd S
Each row and each column forms a word, all made up of chemical symbols. Most files are available for download in .pdf or .doc form... some are very large.
Why is this cool? Well, it combines three of my favorite subjects: math, chemistry and English. And, like Bill Nye says, "Science Rules!"
For about the sixth time, I went into Wal-Mart with two self-addressed, stamped envelopes for the two people who have agreed to write my recommendations for school, and yet again, neither one of them was working. I'm going to try again on Monday. I also sent an email to the College Board to try to find out how much it will be to get all my SAT scores-- regular as well as the two subject tests-- sent. They're in the "archives" because they're so old, and I know it'll be more expensive, I just don't remember how much, and I need to know if they charge extra to send the subject tests. Slowly but surely, my application for SGU is coming together.
In random Chemistry/Math/Science News, Dr. Mark Nandor, professor of math at the Wellington School in Columbus, Ohio has put together a webpage all about English words that can be formed using the symbols from the periodic table of the elements. Not only does he have a list of more than 26,000 words, he also presents interesting facts about words that can be created thus, and chemical word "squares", like this one:
In C U Se
W Ar N Er
Ra B Bi Es
P O Nd S
Each row and each column forms a word, all made up of chemical symbols. Most files are available for download in .pdf or .doc form... some are very large.
Why is this cool? Well, it combines three of my favorite subjects: math, chemistry and English. And, like Bill Nye says, "Science Rules!"
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