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Get ready for finals!
Finals are next week, so stop by the CAS to get ready! We'll have special finals week schedules out online by the end of the day, or you can stop by to pick one up beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, December 2nd. We'll have special Sunday night hours, too, so check them out!
Remember, students! Correlation does not imply causation. Need help with your statistics homework? Come see our wonderful tutors at the CAS!
Does this mean Avogadro is single?
Is this what your trig homework looks like? Come visit us at the CAS and we'll help you!
Some chemistry humor to brighten your Monday. Have a great week!
We guarantee that our tutoring is better than this, so come on down to ML116 and get the help you need!
CAS is closing early November 4th
Tomorrow, Tuesday November 4th, is election day. We are required by law to close at 6pm instead of 7pm so that we don't interfere with your right to vote. Take that hour to get out to the polls! Did you know that voting is a great example of statistics? Come see one of our stats tutors to discuss the statistics of elections!
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1611).
Want some great Halloween reading? Shakespeare's Macbeth is one of the classics!
One of my coworkers sent me a picture of the cutest little boy in his Halloween costume!! Albert Einstein. Is this not the cutest ever?
Dressing up as your favorite mathematician is a great Halloween costume idea!
A great nerdy costume idea for our IT students!
The Science of Halloween: Zombies
It’s no secret that humans have a fascination with the undead, perhaps coming from our fascination with death itself. In fiction, it’s an awesome idea to play around with: an unstoppable virus sweeps across the Earth, turning ordinary people into mindless, cannibalistic monsters. All of us, at one point or another, have entertained thoughts of a Zombie Apocalypse plan—but could zombies actually exist?
Short answer: totally.
Depending on how you define a zombie, human zombification could theoretically occur in many ways, including various parasites, pathogens, nanobots and neurotoxins—some of which can already infect and control brains.
But perhaps the most likely cause is the very origin of zombie legends: rabies. Rabies is a viral disease that infects the central nervous system, and the infected display all the telltale zombie symptoms: intense mindless aggression, muteness, fear of light, a compulsive need to bite… Pop culture just takes this idea and pushes it to the extreme.
Unlike fictional zombies who immediately reanimate upon infection, the rabies virus tends to incubate in its host body for weeks or even years before symptoms appear—then, they become hyperactive, disoriented, and aggressive. However, if the virus’s genetic code mutated or evolved, the incubation time could come rocketing down. And since most viruses naturally have high mutation rates in order to survive and get past new defenses, it’s entirely plausible that rabies might one day infect a person within a few hours.
But the virus would also need to be highly contagious in order to trigger a pandemic. At the moment, humans usually catch rabies after being bitten by an infected animal, and then the virus just stops because it has to be transmitted through body fluids such as saliva—but if it could spread through the air like influenza, then hello, apocalyse. However: rabies would have to borrow traits from other viruses to become airborne, and it’s pretty much unheard of that two unrelated viruses, like rabies and influenza, would hybridize, or even borrow traits, because they’re far too different.
So the development of a zombie virus is possible, but it would be incredibly difficult to do—and you might not end up with a virus that makes people zombies; you might just end up with a virus that makes people dead. Decide for yourselves whether this is amazing or terrible news.
Want to learn something this Halloween? How about something about zombies?
Just in time for Halloween, here’s the Sun looking like a giant scary flaming jack-o-lantern
The image, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, is a composite which shows the sun in a blend of two wavelengths (171 and 193 Angstroms). Extreme ultraviolet light of 171 Angstroms shows the sun’s atmosphere, or corona, “when it’s quiet,” while 193 Angstroms shows hotter regions of the corona, according to NASA.
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Even science loves Halloween!
Kicking off this week’s halloween-themed chemistry posts with a quick look at a couple of compounds that can cause a ‘glow in the dark’ effect!
Scare your friends with some Halloween chemistry!
It’s pumpkin pi
We at the CAS think everyone should carve their pumpkins to make a pumpkin pi!
Happy Halloween to Math lovers and Math loathers alike
Happy Halloween, statistics students!
