Completed a website, start to finish, in less than 6 hours.
Today I decided to redo one of my clients websites for them, without their permission or knowledge, as a little New Year's Gift.
I designed, coded, and assembled the entire thing in a record setting time today.
Have a look:
Why twins begin to look differently as they age
I was sitting in Psychology today listening to a lecture about Schizophrenia, when I started to wonder why identical twins look differently as they age. This is my conjecture...
It all starts off with a single cell that splits into two cells in the very beginning of conception. The two cells are supposed to stick together to eventually form the gastric bubble, however, they separate into two individual cells that are exact, biological clones of one another. The two cells go through mitosis and cytokinesis over and over again, eventually forming two identical humans.
But an interesting process happens during replication. The following diagram shows the process.
In between the two Okazaki fragments, is a portion of DNA that hasn't been replicated. This DNA will eventually be chopped off, and the information will be lost. Unlike the drawing depicts, this small fragment of DNA can contain nearly 20 nucleotides. This happens in nearly every cell, and it's essentially the DNA's way of ensuring that the organism age and die.
However, there's an enzyme called Telomerase that comes along and replicates this small portion of non-replicated DNA. Telomerase is within every cell, but it's shut off after a predetermined amount of time. It's active in children, and it's even the component in some plants that enable them to live for hundreds of years. When telomerase remains active, the organism essentially becomes immortal, at least until something else comes along to kill it.
The deactivation of telomerase, which is usually around age 5, is what causes aging in humans. Over a long period of time, this DNA that isn't replicated will cause critical information to be lost about the human structure, and once enough information is lost, the cell dies.
However, I believe that the deactivation of telomerase causes small physical changes over the course of your life. Ones that you would never realize unless you had a twin. Sure enough, when you look at grown twins they look rather different! You couldn't tell them apart when they were babies, but now the difference is clear. I believe that can be completely accredited to telomerase.
Why the evolution of humans is over
If you were to look at humans during their evolutionary track to present day, you would notice that their tools most likely followed a path that closely resembled their brain capacity.
The Universe
I was out hunting the other day, sitting in a tree stand for a couple hours with nothing to do except wait for Bambi to come along, so I started thinking about random topics. My mind ventured onto the universe, and naturally I began asking myself how big it was, and what was beyond the edge of it. I began to speculate and eventually came up with some pretty logical conclusions. Needless to say, I didn't see any deer; only about 20 turkey.
Here's my idea:
The universe began with the big bang theory, which is the most widely accepted theory today. All the matter and energy, including light, was trapped inside a single atom sized particle which eventually burst, sending all of its contents out into completely empty space. All of this matter ejected in every single direction, and the matter was moving at the speed of light.
Hello world!
I've owned this domain for a couple years now and have never developed into anything. I figure with all the spare time I have on my hands... I'll start a blog to give me a place to write down my ideas so my family doesn't have to listen to them anymore. This is more for me than it is you.
