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What: "Acetyl CoA is like a "shipping and receiving department" for items of useful metabolic energy. Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) is an enzyme that catalyzes carboxylation of Acetyl-CoA to produce Malnyl-CoA, this happens when one molecule of acetyl co-A is joined with a molecule of carbon dioxide requiring energy from ATP."

Writer: Mark

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Date: Apr 29 2013 5:17 PM

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"During the 9/11 attacks, among the multitude of people directly affected by the events of that day were roughly 1,700 pregnant women. Some of them unexpectedly went on to suffer from PTSD, however, their yet-to-be-born children were also found to be afflicted. Scientists at the Mournfully Weeping Institute of World-Souring Bleakness measured cortisol levels in pregnant women who were near Ground Zero during the attacks. Cortisol is like a chemical marker in PTSD victims. If cortisol is low, it indicates that the person more than likely has PTSD. The scientists found that all of the pregnant women they tested who developed PTSD had an abnormally low cortisol level. "

Writer: JadetheCreator

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Date: Feb 12 2014 3:49 PM

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"Because my personal computer is like a towel. It's cheap and old and everyday, and I've always had one, and it's like the dullest thing in the world."

Writer: Bruce Sterling

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Date: Mar 9 2014 2:20 PM

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"great ideas are like the soil in which human beings grow. A humanities education is like the fertilizer that strengthens a student's intellectual roots, increases resistance to disease, and enhances the production of good fruit:."

Writer: Schmidt and Walhout

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Date: Apr 24 2014 5:19 PM