Rubisco
@Rubisco@slrpnk.net
4 billion years of fixing inorganic carbon in the biosphere. Sometimes mistakes O2 for CO2. Slower than other enzymes, but very abundant. Here, have some phosphoglycerates about it.
- Comment on Penguins 🐧 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Science or some other arcane wizardry PCM 4 weeks ago:
Comrade Pauli?!
- Comment on Chat, what do you see? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 1 month ago:
You’ve convinced me.
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- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 1 month ago:
- Comment on English Ivy 1 month ago:
Because Crake is saving it for some special project at Rejoov.
- Comment on Launches 2 months ago:
To the depths of Jupiter, then.
- Comment on Sexual dimorphism 2 months ago:
Pretty impressive, but is he magnificent enough? Oh dear, her departure says it all.
- Comment on Is he cheating on just me or with the Second Law of Thermodynamics? 2 months ago:
The godhead got bored and felt like playing hide-and-seek.
- Comment on Botany 3 months ago:
Capsicum annuum?
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
You just can’t get away from them.
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 4 months ago:
“People are taking the piss out of you every day. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”
Banksy
- Comment on How can I improve my handwriting? 4 months ago:
Practice.
Taking notes during lecture helped. Not only does it help cement the information in your mind, it is practice writing legibly enough it can be studied later. You could practice this now, before school starts, by watching something like Khan Academy.
If your major sends you to the whiteboard often, that will help a lot, too. You will naturally improve as you do it out of necessity. Practice on the board until you can write a straight line of consistent text that doesn’t droop or curve down as it goes along.
I second the suggestion for calligraphy in a script you like.
Perhaps practice by trying to quickly write down song lyrics as you listen? I think that’s when I first started to improve.
Pay attention to your classmates who can take good notes quickly. I made a friend who found my writing to be glacially slow, so I watched how they wrote to learn some tricks.
Sorry if some of these won’t help until you’re in, but don’t worry about it too much. I’m sure your handwriting will be markedly improved by the end of even the first year.
- Comment on Academia to Industry 4 months ago:
So when it helps out with a recipe, we won’t get a suggestion specifically for Elmer’s, but rather the IUPAC name for superglue?
- Comment on No going back 4 months ago:
- Comment on No going back 4 months ago:
Gotcha. Thanks! Do the points P, E, Y, U, and F stand for something or are the letters arbitrary?
- Comment on No going back 4 months ago:
Can a TI-84slinger explain this for us pipette-wielders?
- Comment on Microplastics found in every human testicle in study 5 months ago:
Reminds me of Charles Moore talking about bisphenol A and males in Garbage Island.
- Comment on stinging nettle 5 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
4 laws passed in 3 states over the last 2 years with 1 million dollars.
Clever and impressive. Will YT brush this off and move on or double down and wade into it? Would you want to pick a fight with clever, eloquent nerds who seem to enjoy battling dragons, or EEE while quietly going about other business?
- Comment on My house! 6 months ago:
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 8 months ago:
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 8 months ago:
The country-fried truck endorsed by clowns!
Somehow I hadn’t seen it before. Thanks!
- Comment on Big, doomed satellite seen from space as it tumbles towards a fiery reentry on Feb. 21 (photos) 8 months ago:
In an update posted on Sunday (Feb. 18), ESA said that the rentry ERS-2 is expected to take place on Wednesday (Feb. 21) at 10:19 a.m. ET (1519 GMT), plus or minus around 19 hours. This uncertainty is due to the “influence of unpredictable solar activity, which affects the density of Earth’s atmosphere” and can therefore change how much drag pulls on the satellite on its way down, ESA wrote.
Plus or minus 19hrs due to the sun’s effect on the density of the atmosphere. Mind blown.
- Comment on Q intentionally leaves his cart in the blind spot behind the most expensive car in the lot 10 months ago:
