You do not necessarily need to do those tedious pre-med requirements to get into med schools these days. Many schools such as Mt. Sinai school of medicine admits a small number of students every year who have skipped all these requirements, including the MCAT exam. The program promises spots for about 35 undergraduates a year studying humanities or social sciences instead of the traditional pre-medical school curriculum. These undergraduates must have also maintained a 3.5 grade-point average.

http://www.washington.edu/uaa/gateway/advising/downloads/gpamcat.pdf

For those of you out there like myself studying for those upcoming final exams here is a little bit of help. I am sure many of you like myself have teachers that wrote the book and basically stand in the front of the room and read you their textbook. It may be nice to have the teacher do this for you, but in reality they aren't giving you any concrete notes making it harder to learn. Here is a list of some useful links to other schools organic chemistry notes which have been helping me a lot.

Pretty interesting article about how we will doom ourselves.

Check it out: http://brainz.org/15-ways-science-will-kill-us-all/

YOU HAVE ONE YOU JUST DONT KNOW HOW TO USE IT

Everybody has an old stethoscope lying around their house somewhere. Check out The Auscultation Assistant and begin preforming your own diagnossis on friends and families. Site includes heart and lung sounds and how to identify them. Percise areas where to listen for them and all the physiology to go along with it.

-KB-

Some interesting pictures around the globe of this past snowstorm engulfing the Mid-Atlantic.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/snowstorm-winter-weather-snowpocalypse.html

For all of you students out there who need help with math of any sort, this is a great site to help aid in the process of learning.

Yes it does exist. For those of you that have no idea what this is (image on left) its the doomsday clock. The clock itself does not tell time, but since 1947 the clock has been kept and maintained. The famed workers of the Manhattan project thought of creating this symbol to set a standard of alert and time until the end of the world or a large disaster. The end being the symbolic strike to midnight. Since the establishment of the clock at seven minutes to midnight its time has fluctuated quite a bit going from the safest the world has ever been in 1991, seventeen minutes to midnight, to an all time low of two minutes in 1953. The clock has been adjusted according to nuclear threats over time, but since 2007 has included climate changes and nanotechnological threats. Its most current reading is six minutes to midnight as of January 14th 2010. The clock turning back may be a sign that the world won't be ending in 2012. Having the world end as I finish college would be horrendous. My whole life would have been spent in school, learning for nothing. But there may be hope that I may live in a time where I don't have class everyday. Yet again in the next two years the clock may fluctuate like a sine curve until our eventual downfall. Only time can tell what's in store for the future.

Doomsday Clock Timeline
http://www.thebulletin.org/content/doomsday-clock/timeline

-MF

Sheep gives birth to what looks like lamb body with human face

(full article) http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/12-01-2010/111621-sheep_human_face-0

For some reason this reminds me of " The Matrix".