The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony will be happening tomorrow (Thursday, Dec. 10).  This year the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair".  Now I haven't read any of their published work, and I'm not a super scientist or anything close to that, but I...

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So I recently started making cards for friends and family. It is a lot of fun and there are actually some really cool techniques. I am currently obsessed with thermography (printing technique that uses slow drying inked image -the substrate- coated with thermoplastic polymer resin to make a dimensional impression after applying heat -curing-). It's really cool and I do think that embossing...

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I took the CFA Level 1 exam yesterday... won't know the results until a month+ later.  It was a very long day.  But now I get to do my own things again. Hooray! IMAGE SOURCE: http://www.readmeindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/stay-awake-all-night-to-study.jpg ...

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I wanted to make a crab cake casserole for Thanksgiving this year, but because of the current toxic algae situation along the California coast, it doesn't look like the crab cakes will happen. Bummer.  The toxic algal bloom (brought on by warm El Nino waters) has caused the commercial crab season to be postponed until further notice (that super sucks for the fishermen)....

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I wanted to read another book on my Kindle (I got it on Prime Day and I love it) and Mark Zuckerberg told me to read this. Okay I will!  The book (author Smil) opens with a bunch of definitions from notable old people for the word energy and goes straightaway into a very broad and kind of random history lesson of sorts of past...

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^^^^^^^^ I have for you the intro of my Netflix Cat game. Looks cute right? And the game code writing is going ... it's hopefully going somewhere. There are major debugging problems that I have to deal with. But here is what it looks like so far. I'm sure a lot of stuff will change by the time the game is ready. When...

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The body reacts and acclimates to the cold in a number of ways. Our bodies shiver and our teeth chatter. Goosebumps form. All this is done by the little almond in our brains (the hypothalamus- responsible for thermoregulation) to make sure that we keep warm when the weather outside is frightful. Now as the temperature outside gets cooler, the old people in your...

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