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Video: Student work: Integrated Science
Posted September 4, 2009; 11:52 a.m.
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Christina Chang '12 documented her freshman year in Princeton's Integrated Science Curriculum, which breaks down traditional disciplinary barriers.
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Joshua Shaevitz:
So, who can think of a potential biological application
Joshua Shaevitz:
for the difference, this exact difference,
Joshua Shaevitz:
between saturated and unsaturated lipids?
Joshua Shaevitz:
So that's a sperm whale.
Joshua Shaevitz:
I think he has a size advantage on all of us, put together.
Joshua Shaevitz:
Okay, so this guy has made four tons of oil and put it in his head.
Joshua Shaevitz:
If it melts this oil, right, it comes into a liquid
Joshua Shaevitz:
phase, it kind of expands, it becomes less dense.
Joshua Shaevitz:
Right? So it's going to float.
David Botstein:
Now, instead of doing this toy system, let's suppose I put in a real genome.
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