ATP – It’s All About Energy

Filed under: Education, Health, Science on 23 January 2011 @ 3:38

I recently had a massage teaching colleague ping me about: 1) Why we need mitochondria? and 2) How many molecules of ATP are used per second in typical muscle contractions? Both questions are a matter of energy, thus piquing my underlying physicist nature. Glucose to ATP The first question really was really along the lines [...]

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Gaining an Advantage from Elite Conceit

Filed under: Business, Education on 19 June 2010 @ 19:50

The first of two starting points for this post is David Evans’s An ‘Unacceptable’ Degree? in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Evans is discussing hiring practices and the rejection of potential candidates who lack a “trophy degree.” One of the commentators mentions several reasons that a candidate would be rejected that, even if shared, wouldn’t [...]

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