Fun Facts (a.k.a. my only ammo for the finals)

Yo peeps!
I decided, that the only way for me to pass the finals will be to gather some fun facts about stuff I find interesting and put them into the actual topics. I hope this works out, otherwise I'm screwed :) Nevertheless I think it'll be way more interesting than reciting taxological system or all possible reactions of a certain element.
You may not find them interesting, but I'll share some of them with you anyways. These are not all of them, of course, but I just cba to recall and write down all of them.

• The eldest, largest and heavist living organism is Pando, a single tree that spreads as underground rootlings, occasionally growing into full-grown tree again, thus creating what appears to be a forest made of identical trees. It's 80 000 - 1 000 000 years old, weights about 6600 tonnes and covers like 43 hectars.
• Pafish (well, that's the czech transcription anyway, they don't have similar category in english system as far as I'm informed) have like 10 times larger brain-to-body ratio than regular fish. This is caused by very low density of neurons in their brains and allows them to function consuming less energy.
• Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria are divided into these two categories according to their reactiong to Gram's coloring using crystal violet (trisphenylmethane).
• The way branches grow out of pines, that are not circles, those are actually very tight spirals. I don't think I need to tell you about the Fibonacci sequence relating to nature in general :)
• You can cut apart some worms and some polypoda and they will regenerate back into working condition, thus reproducing. It's like with cells and protoza, only with large animals. I think it's cool!
• Human (and other) liver can regenerate too! Up from 75% mass loss (you cut away 75% of the liver) it regenerates into working, 100% condition.
• A veliger (larva of some molluscs) looks like rastafarian head atop an octopus-like tentacle bottom...and it floats in the water! I'd snatch you a picture, but then again, do you deserve it?
• The largest snail (way, in a way, the sea one) can be as big as 60cms, like a hare.
• Well, axolotls... Those are one big fun fact ;)
• Birds are gimped! They have no alveoli.
• Did you know this? The phases of mitosis (interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase) can be abbreviated as IPMAT, which can be easily remembered as "I Passed My Awful Tests" :D Only after finding this out I could remember it correctly.
• Protozoa have a neural system! A series of tubes that supposedly function somewhat like nerves.

So much for biology. I cba to do chemistry now, I gotta go study czech literature.

Peace,
out.
Adam

Holy shit

Or, as some are known to call it, holy week. I really do not know, what is so holy about it, as I find it utterly depressing at best. Not only do I feel less ready for the finals day after day, I'm also losing the last bits of confidence I have secured over the last year. While I know, or feel, I should study way harder than I do, I lack any kind of moral strenght to do so. Not to mention the fact, that all the bits of information simply appear to be sifting through my head, falling out at no time.

I want to get over with this. It's killing me. The finals AND the college entrances. Just kill me already >.<>