• Question: What would rather do... Biology or Maths related... if you could not do what you do now?

    Asked by lol4eva to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 15 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      I think it would be quite good to help develop treatments for diseases, or things like cancer. But I was never good enough at biology to do tricky stuff like that! I’d quite like to be a zookeeper, or do marine conservation.

    • Photo: Catherine Rix

      Catherine Rix answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      Biology, there’s still lots we don’t understand about how our bodies work. Of course you need maths too to do biology and any science

    • Photo: Karen Masters

      Karen Masters answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      I think modeling traffic jams is really interesting – there are people working on trying to figure out how to make the roads move more smoothly. I’m good at maths and making simple computer models, so I think I could contribute to that.

      I think it’d also be important to work on renewable or substainable energy. I’m not sure how I could help there, but I know a lot of physicists do work in that sort of area.

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      Biology for sure! I always disliked maths and I nearly failed it at university!

    • Photo: Nazim Bharmal

      Nazim Bharmal answered on 21 Mar 2012:

      Could I do bio-mathematics? That is quite interesting. But if I had to choose one subject…probably Geophysics actually, because I did enjoy working outdoors. (People who look for oil using seismographs are geophysicists.)

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