In keeping with the recent trend of posting projects from my misspent youth, I present to you "Match the Mustelidae", which was the second "complete" game I ever made, right after Fasmo (which I will post later).
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Saturday, January 17, 2015
"Feeling Down" music video
This music video was my winter break project in 2010. The song was written and recorded by my brother Kyle. The animation was done with a Wacom pad, Gimp, and Blender. The animation style was inspired by the music video for the Moondoggies' Empress of the North (although I obviously don't have half the talent of Drew Christie)
Thursday, January 15, 2015
On the pronunciation of "dehydrogenase", "hydrogenated", and "hydrogenation"
The words "dehydrogenase", "hydrogenated", and "hydrogenation" are typically (as far as I've noticed) pronounced with "drog" as the most emphasized syllable. That's how I used to pronounce it too. However, when TAing a biochemistry class taught by a rather ancient professor (Ron Brosemer, who has been teaching at WSU since 1963) I noticed that he pronounces these words with the emphasis the syllable "hy". So the "hydrogen" part of the word sounds exactly like it would if it were pronounced on its own.
At first that sounded weird to me, but now I think it actually makes a lot more sense than the typical pronunciation. It may be that Dr. Brosemer pronounces the words that way intentionally for pedagogical purposes. But I suspect that when he learned these words (presumably in the 1950's), his pronunciation was actually the typical way to pronounce them. There is no element pronounced "hydROGen", so it seems unlikely that the chemists who coined these derivative terms would have said it that way in their new terms. I think it is more likely that the modern common pronunciation arose in people (like me) who learned the terms before understanding their chemical significance.
Using Dr. Brosemer's pronunciation with these words, brings to mind their actual chemical meaning, a dehyrogenase is an enzyme that removes hydrogens from one of its substrates, and hydrogenated oils are oils which have had hydrogens added.
I've adopted Dr. Brosemer's pronunciation, and I think you should too.
At first that sounded weird to me, but now I think it actually makes a lot more sense than the typical pronunciation. It may be that Dr. Brosemer pronounces the words that way intentionally for pedagogical purposes. But I suspect that when he learned these words (presumably in the 1950's), his pronunciation was actually the typical way to pronounce them. There is no element pronounced "hydROGen", so it seems unlikely that the chemists who coined these derivative terms would have said it that way in their new terms. I think it is more likely that the modern common pronunciation arose in people (like me) who learned the terms before understanding their chemical significance.
Using Dr. Brosemer's pronunciation with these words, brings to mind their actual chemical meaning, a dehyrogenase is an enzyme that removes hydrogens from one of its substrates, and hydrogenated oils are oils which have had hydrogens added.
I've adopted Dr. Brosemer's pronunciation, and I think you should too.
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