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It's simple. The saying goes you learn a new thing everyday so why not share something interesting that you learnt recently. Try not to lapse into one sentence answers but maybe go into a bit of detail about the fact or whatever it is you post.

Why vertebrae prominens (C7) is well so prominent.

If you place a two fingers on the back of your neck whilst tilting your head down till its touching your chest you should find a bump at the base of your neck. This is C7 the last of the cervical vertebrae. Whilst reading Gray's Anatomy today i found out why its different.

"the usual arrangement is for both artery and vein to pass in front of the transverse process, and not through the foramen."

The foramen is the 'holes' on either side of the vertebrae

How to solve integrals, well...kinda...and what they can mean. Last year when we learned it at the end of the year, I almost failed every single quiz and test on it. Now, I actually get it. ^.^ I'll post some of what we did in class... It explains a lot.

Words that also mean "integral" or are associated with integrals: Area [under the curve], antiderivative, accumulation (and "Awesome", according to my calculus teacher )

Example AP Calculus AB Problem:



A test plane flies in a straight line with positive velocity.
Use a midpoint Riemann Sum with 4 subintervals of equal length to approximate
∫ v(t)dx from a=0 to b=40

Then we solved it...
First we found the Length of the Subintervals by using the equation: (b - a)/n, with n representing the number of subintervals. The length of each subinterval turns out to be 10.
The subintervals, based on the above chart, are as following: from 7.0 to 9.5, from 9.5 to 4.5, from 4.5 to 2.4, and from 2.4 to 7.3.
The "midpoint Riemann Sum" method simply means you take the the middle value of those subintervals (provided on the chart) and use them when you solve for the area of each rectangle you draw in the sketched graph (sketching the graph is optional, but we did it anyway).

We drew a sketch of the graph using the midpoint Riemann Sum method too... This is what it looked like:



Then, we solved for the area of each of those rectangles and added them together in order to find the approximate value of the area.

(10)(9.2) + (10)(7.0) + (10)(2.4) + (10)(4.3)
= 92 + 70 + 24 +43
= 229

But since we're solving for an integral and not just the value of the area, we need correct units and to write what this value we found means.
So, since we're multiplying the time by the velocity we have:
(min.)(miles/min.)
And we have "miles" as our units.

This means that wha we solved for is as follows:
The plane flew 229 miles from t = 0 to t = 40 (or, the plane flew 229 miles in 40 minutes).

And that is what I learned today that I did not know yesterday

We also learned some other rules for integrals, but those are rather hard to type up here (yes, harder than what I just posted), and so I shall refrain from doing so. Besides, you're all probably sick of calculus now 'cause of this.

Is it bad that i already knew this lol
It's the thing about actually being a boyfriend who care's about what my girlfriend does and as she is a nurse i have learnt a lot and she learnt that i already knew most of the things lol
No idea how i do but i do lol

P.S
House is better than Gray's Anatomy lol

how really snobby people will argue with you about anything...
if you say its right...they say its wrong, it doesnt matter if im the next einstein...

whoever said that the customer is always right should be shot...

That some people could really think that I'm Tarja Turunen and even ask for my autograph.

i did learn today that i really can use a suit at my job and not to loose true myself at the sametime.

i thought always, that if i wear a suit, I wont be true to myself and i (try/am) something that i aint. many years i really kept saying that ill never wear a suit. well. today i learned that many people have to wear diff clothes when they are working, and that wont make them anything else, like nurses, firemen, cashiers, waitresses etc. i just have to buy my "working uniform" but it wont change me anyway

and the sad thing is, that it took 31yrs for me to understand that clothes dont make personality

I learned from an Abba video that sweden celebrate christmas on christmas eve not day like us.

oh and http://www.hrcr.org/safrica/equality/canada_law.html

Constitution Act, 1982.

Equality Rights (canada)

15. (1) Every individual is equal before the and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age, or mental or physical disability.

(2) Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because or race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age, or mental or physical disability.(5)


oh and also enya rocks XD

I didn't know yesterday that Helena Bonham Carter is married to Tim Burton. Just found this:
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/ar ... er_1053721

OK, gossip knowledge. But I think she's a good actrice and now I know also married to Tim Burton.

Yesterday, I didn't know that I was not going to cry when I was travelling away from my friend. I really thought I should. But it was really tough to go away from there. I'm so jealous that I live here and not in Stockholm.

I miss her already.

Oh i've learn't so so so so so much in the past few days it would be impossible to put it all down.

I watched how you treat a slipped vertebral disc surgically. I saw how the surgeons go in cauterizing on each layer to stop the bleeding until finally they got to the spinal column through the neck. Then they replace them with metal ones.

I found out in my bio-terrorism lecture that early biowarfare consisted of catapulting plague cadavers at the enemy.

I learnt today that i am going to be going to Oslo sometime soon XDXDXD

lucky

i learnt today that trying to pour custard into a wine bottle is really hard when its cold....

dont ask

I learned today how and why the pretty colors show up in bubbles, oil on the ground with water, etc. Soooo pretty ^.^

how great Dope Stars Inc really are....

That there are some really nice movies coming out next year. Or movies I wanna see.