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‘Altruism Meets a Weak Job Market’Friday July 04th 2008, 4:08 pm Filed under: Life, Post-College

‘Altruism Meets a Weak Job Market’

According to the Wall Street Journal, recent college grads are giving up on trying to find a decent job in the currently crappy job market, and are opting instead to spend a year or two working and/or volunteering for one of the following world-improvement organizations:

Peace CorpsAmeriCorpsTeach Read more

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Note: this explanation is best understood if you have a Lineweaver-Burke plot and a velocity vs. concentration graph available while reading it.

When you look at an enzyme reaction, you’re really looking at two reactions:

E+S ES –> E + P

So in those rxns, E is the enzyme, S is the substrate, and P is the product. You’ll notice that substrate binding is reversible, so you could say that we’re Read more

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