Organ Trade in China

This is the BBC video that Ms. Ouyang mentioned in class. It's about how organs are harvested from executed prisoners in China. Sound familiar?

Enjoy watching!

Leon

B'day Photos

Here's the pics from Jian Liang and Ruyi's Birthday Celebration =D


Album Here

an article

Hi all,

In the spirit of being good students and learning more about the local political scene (yes, it's GP!..)
Here's the article that Mrs Tan was talking about during econs.

Prosperity versus individual rights?
Human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Singapore - ( ibanet.org )

ben

Post-BT2 Class Lunch

Hi everyone,

Here are photos from our class lunch on 1st July.

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Enjoy,

Leon

Maths/Physics parody

I found an interesting parody of Gloria Gaynor's "I will Survive" on Youtube. "I will Derive" seems somewhat related to Maths and Physics. (The singing is not fantastic but the lyrics is really smart.)

Let's not give up in solving Maths and Physics problems!



This was the original "I will Survive"



Enjoy. (and solve maths problems)

Leon

Class Outing Photos

As usual, here's the photos :D

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GP NOTIFICATIONS FOR THE WEEK

Hello everyone :)

Not sure how many of you took note of the questions, or remembered that she assigned us to complete these questions, but here they are anyway:

GP questions in response to the Genomics video
1. What was interesting/ striking about the clip?
2. What have you learnt that you didn't know before?
3. What is the central message of the speaker?
4. What were the arguments used to support this message?
5. How convincing is the speaker? Why/ why not?

Link to Genomics speech by Juan Enriquez

Please submit your responses to me by THURSDAY :) (they were actually due today heh heh but everyone, including me :( totally forgot about it, SO SORRY FOR NOT REMINDING YOU GUYS!)

Please also complete the 2007 A Level GP Compre by THURSDAY :)

In addition, please remember to download the Word doc (the "I Love Knowledge" WS) that Ms Ouyang uploaded on EMB. This is due by FRIDAY. If you have problems accessing EMB and would like me to send it to you or print it out for you, do not hesistate to ping me online or text me or something.

Lastly, eye and eye, you may place your answers in Ms Ouyang's pigeon hole when you're finished with yours, or submit to her personally during GP lessons, or if you would like to pass it to me to pass to her that is fine as well.

Thomas Edison once said, "A genius is someone who does his homework." (I kid you not) So let's all take his quote LITERALLY and do our homework so we can become geniuses. lol.

Thanks for your co-operation! :)

Best wishes,
Your Friendly GP rep

Hey people, I haven't been here to do my postings for quite awhile. So, let's have a time of laughter and forget about the things bugging us in school =)

Physics

"Theory is when you know how it works but it still doesn't. Practice is when it works but you don't know why. In this Department [Physics], theory and practice are joined together: nothing works and no one knows why!"

What is the difference between a physicist, an engineer, and a mathematician? If an engineer walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he takes the bucket of water and pours it on the fire and puts it out. If a physicist walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he takes the bucket of water and pours it eloquently around the fire and lets the fire put itself out. If a mathematician walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he convinces himself there is a solution and leaves.

Heisenberg is out for a drive when he's stopped by a traffic cop. The cop says 'Do you know how fast you were going?' Heisenberg says 'No, but I know where I am.'

Chemistry

A small piece of ice which lived in a test tube fell in love with a Bunsen burner. "Bunsen! my flame! I melt whenever I see you" said the ice. The Bunsen burner replied :"It's just a phase you're going through".

Why did the white bear dissolve in water? Because it was polar.

What do you call a tooth in a glass of water? A one molar solution.

What do dipoles say in passing? "Have you got a moment?"

What do you do with a dead chemists? Barium (ba-ri 'em)

What weapon can you make from the elements potassium, nickel and iron? A KNiFe.

Why do chemistry professors like to teach about ammonia? Because it's basic material.

According to a chemist, why is the world so diverse? Because it's made up of alkynes of people.

Mathematics

Q: Why do you rarely find mathematicians spending time at the beach? A: Because they have sine and cosine to get a tan and don't need the sun!

Teacher: "Who can tell me what 7 times 6 is?" Student: "It's 42!" Teacher: "Very good! - And who can tell me what 6 times 7 is?" Same student: "It's 24!"

A math student is pestered by a classmate who wants to copy his homework assignment. The student hesitates, not only because he thinks it's wrong, but also because he doesn't want to be sanctioned for aiding and abetting. His classmate calms him down: "Nobody will be able to trace my homework to you: I'll be changing the names of all the constants and variables: a to b, x to y, and so on." Not quite convinced, but eager to be left alone, the student hands his completed assignment to the classmate for copying. After the deadline, the student asks: "Did you really change the names of all the variables?" "Sure!" the classmate replies. "When you called a function f, I called it g; when you called a variable x, I renamed it to y; and when you were writing about the log of x+1, I called it the timber of x+1..."

Theorem. A cat has nine tails.
Proof. No cat has eight tails. Since one cat has one more tail than no cat, it must have nine tails.

New York (CNN). At John F. Kennedy International Airport today, a Caucasian male (later discovered to be a high school mathematics teacher) was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a compass, a protractor and a graphical calculator. According to law enforcement officials, he is believed to have ties to the Al-Gebra network. He will be charged with carrying weapons of math instruction. (mass destruction)

Two mathematicians are studying a convergent series. The first one says: "Do you realize that the series converges even when all the terms are made positive?" The second one asks: "Are you sure?" "Absolutely!"

"Students nowadays are so clueless", the math professor complains to a colleague. "Yesterday, a student came to my office hours and wanted to know if General Calculus was a Roman war hero..."

In a speech to a gathering of mathematics professors from throughout the United States, George W. Bush warned the academics not to misuse their position to force their often extremist political views on young Americans. "It is my understanding", the president said, "that you are frequently teaching algebra classes in which your students learn how to solve equations with the help of radicals. I can't say that I approve of that..."

Theorem. Every positive integer is interesting.
Proof. Assume towards a contradiction that there is an uninteresting positive integer. Then there must be a smallest uninteresting positive integer. But being the smallest uninteresting positive integer is interesting by itself. Contradiction!

"What is Pi?" A mathematician: "Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter." A computer programmer: "Pi is 3.141592653589 in double precision." A physicist: "Pi is 3.14159 plus or minus 0.000005." An engineer: "Pi is about 22/7." A nutritionist: "Pie is a healthy and delicious dessert!"

A pure and an applied mathematician are asked to calculate 2 * 2. The applied mathematician's solution: We have
2 * 2 = 2 *1/(1-1/2).The second factor on the right hand side has a geometric series expansion
1/(1-1/2) = 1 + 1/2 +1/4 + 1/8 + ....Cutting off the series after the second term yields the approximate solution
2 * 2 = 2 *(1 +1/2) = 3.The pure mathematician's solution: We have
2 * 2 = (-2) *1/(1-3/2).The second factor on the right hand side has a geometric series expansion
1/(1-3/2) = 1 + 3/2 +9/4 + 27/8 + ...,which diverges. Hence, the solution to 2 * 2 does not exist.

"My life is all arithmetic", the young businesswoman explains. "I try to add to my income, subtract from my weight, divide my time, and avoid multiplying..."

Economics

Q: What's the difference between a finance major and an economics major?A: Opportunity Cost

"I'm a walking economy," a man was overheard to say."My hairline's in recession, my waist is a victim of inflation, and together they're putting me in a deep depression."

Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.Postulate 2: Time is Money.
As every engineer knows,
Work---------- = PowerTime
Since Knowledge = Power, and Time =Money, we have
Work--------- = KnowledgeMoney
Solving for Money, we get:
Work----------- = MoneyKnowledge
Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity regardless of the Work done.Conclusion: The Less you Know, the more money you Make.

"Give me a one-armed economist!" demanded President Harry S. Truman.
President Truman was the first president to appoint a council of economic advisers. Unlike some later presidents, he actually liked to liste n to his policy advisers. However, he preferred a clear recommendation, not a long discussion of the advantages a nd disadvantages of a particular course of action.
He quickly grew tired of economist who gave a good recommendation, and then began, "O n the other hand. . ."