java isn’t too bad, it’s about computer coding and it is a lot like genetic codes. you put an input into a software that can be used for coding and you can input different codes and sequences to create various tasks on your computer like making your own solar system (on codeacademy.com) much like molecular biologists study dna sequences. i like computers, calculators and radios (still learning). i’m taking business and web development to boost my management and leadership skills and a personal website is often like a good resume. my math unweighted average is a 90.75. logical word problems and critical thinking annoy me and my math skills are proficient, but not engineer status which is why sometimes my parents complain about me b/c my brother is great at math. my family seems to like the people who are engineers and craftsmen. to them biology (environmental and molecular) and astronomy (including the physics of the universe) seem hard to grasp and also they think i have my head in the clouds when i talk about philosophy or the beauty of the universe. some of the people who make fun of me are athletes. so i have my parents telling me that i know no life skills esp. those to do with home repairs and mechanical things and some athletes who tell me that i’m not athletic enough b/c i’m a girl. i enjoy science the most b/c i love nature and the universe and science allows me to question and explore the world. i love astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics (when it’s not mechanical). it amazes me that testosterone molecule and estrogen molecule both share CH3 and OH in the same places. The difference is that testosterone has an another CH3 and at the end of the molecules shape there is a double bonded oxygen, while estrogen lacks the extra CH3 and has a OH at the end. Learning more about biological things of humans, i think males and females have more in common than i thought. females are more prone to heart attacks, but survive them better b/c estrogen has specific molecule that helps them. females are also more prone to depression, but with males over forty, both have serotonin levels decrease so they may have depression as well. women live 5-10 years longer than men. also bullet proof vests and fire escapes were invented by women. it was also a woman who discovered chromosomes and agnes meyer driscoll (strawberry brand named after her) was a codebreaker and forensics scientist. there is a possibility that the double X chromosomes in women help them as they age. when cells age, they have a choice in genes either on one X chromosomes or the other. if you have a population of cells aging, the genes in one X chromosomes are active while the other may be due to chance whether or not the genes are active with slight variations. we all have the same genes, however it is the specific coding within our genes that makes us who we are. also one of the questions that i was pondering alone at night was this “Since some people experience the sensation that they’ve been somewhere before and that’s called deja vu, maybe there is a possibility for a past life. What about the traits (includes phenotypes or physical traits and genotypes) that people have that don’t seem to be genetically inherited, maybe they came from a past life. Such as when people who meet for the first time click right away, is it possible that they met each other in a recent time? And if there is a possibility of a past life, there may be evidence of reincarnation. Since wouldn’t the person have to have been reincarnated again as a different person with the same soul to have come upon this person again? Does this mean that there is a soul? Scientists say that when you die there is .6% of your body weight that goes, is it spiritual matter? Could the pituitary gland at the brain be the seat of the soul? Also in biology they say that all matter contains carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, water which are cycled and since humans are matter, do our nutrients get cycled in the universe? Also energy enters an ecosystem as light and exits as heat and energy flows through a ecosystem. for every energy transformation, it increases the entropy (disorder of the universe since heat can’t be used for work). if we are energy, then maybe we are only transformed from one thing to another? It has been said we share 99% of the genes of banana and plants can regenerate themselves, then is there a possibility of reincarnation? Reading about ecological succession and how species can survive after a disturbance. primary succession is when there is no soil present an lichens (spores transported by wind, water) can grow and later give rise to plants and life. secondary succession occurs when there is soil present and plants start growing and takes a shorter time than primary. lichens are good at extracting materials such as nickel, lead from soils and facilitating the way for other species to grow. anyway, it is said by biologist that when our bodies become dust, they become part of the soil and relating to secondary succession, there may be a plant species that uses the soil to grow. when the plant is eaten by the animals, then the animal has the nutrients of us and when a man eats an animal, then we are man again. this makes me think there is a possibility for reincarnation.”