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stemposting again, say hi to potassium (they/them) flexible
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plants will see an open niche and be like "is anyone gonna get really big and produce a woody stem" and not wait for an answer
We need a major for Evil Science
I have to be honest, I still don't understand why inertial confinement fusion has so much research going into it. Neither ICF nor MCF (magnetic confinement fusion) are suuuuper close to commercial viability for energy production, but in my mind ICF makes less sense. What are you going to do, fire a beam of hohlraums into a pulsing laser? During downtime, fire gold-absorbent mist into the room and pump it back out? You gotta be losing thousands on all that gold, even if you're breaking even on heat.
hey whichever one of the doctors here keeps listing my patients’ sexualities and gender identities as diagnosis/problem codes but only if they arent cishet. fight me
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You mentioned in a post that you'll be going into biotech, so could you talk a bit about your favorite thing in that field/biology in general/science in general?
ooh, thanks for the ask!!! ^^
In biotech labs: I love using the micropipette. I dunno why, it's just so much fun.
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In general biotech applications and potential applications:
Definitely mushrooms and fungi. I think, to me, the most interesting thing with them (aside from the wide variety of variation and who knows how many more species that are undiscovered) is their medicinal applications and potential medicinal applications.
Now, I'm not just talking about magic mushrooms with anxiety. I'm talking Honey Mushrooms (I think that was the correct species) potentially being used for cancer treatment. That's the only example I know of, but it's still just so cool to think that we could help treat diseases with mushrooms and fungi!!
And I've also heard of bacteria (and/or maybe a fungus) that eats plastic!! That's huge!! We could help break down pollution in our landfills, oceans, and ecosystems with that!! Not sure if it's true (kinda hard to tell with all the shit on the internet), but it would be fantastic if it was! And maybe we could figure out a way to get these microplastics out of us.
So, I guess the broader area I'm interested in ways to help benefit both our planet and our species.
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In general science (though I guess it's still about biology for both of them):
I love sea slugs/nudibranchs. 1: because they're beautiful and fun to look at, 2: because some of them LITERALLY TAKE THE DEFENSE MECHANISM FROM MAN O' WARS AND JELLYFISH AND RECYCLE IT TO USE IT FOR THEMSELVES, and 3: because SOME SPECIES CAN LITERALLY PHOTOSYNTHESIZE (by taking chloroplasts from the algae that they eat and keeping it for themselves). Sea slugs are amazing. My favorites are the Blue Dragon (that takes the Man O' War's defense mechanism) and the Leaf Sheep (that takes chloroplasts from the algae that they eat and uses it for themselves).
And also, diseases are cool to learn about. And toxins. Especially poisonous mushrooms. And just poisons in general. A lot of plants are poisonous, which is really cool to me.
Had a wonderful moment in class today where my writing made "biodiversity" look like "brodiversity"
You like Louis Pasteur? His early work on molecular asymmetry was a little too small-scale for my taste. But when his treatise on spontaneous generation came out in '82, I think his really came into his own, professionally and scientifically. All of his experiments show an inquisitive, skeptical method, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the theories a big boost. He's been compared to Theodor Schwann, but I think Louis has a far more wide-reaching, iconoclastic pedigree. In '65, Louis released this; The Effect of Microorganisms on Fermentation, his most well-remembered discovery. I think his undisputed masterpiece is "Pasteurization". A process so useful, most people probably don't know how it works. But they should, because it's not just about the dangers of viral microorganisms and the method of eliminating them from drink liquids. It's also a rebellious pushback against the prevailing European scientific mainstream.