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 Insect populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities 1 month ago:
Now I’m feeling the need for a CPBBD episode that covers restored habitats of PV facilities. Really curious what a walk through looks like.
- Comment on Silenced and erased, Hong Kong's decade of protest is now a defiant memory 1 month ago:
iheart.com/…/1119-cool-people-who-did-cool-960033…
As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.
Give Margaret Killjoy a listen.
- Comment on cuke division 2 months ago:
Mitch Hedberg: Where the fuck you get that
bananatelophase cucumber at? - Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 2 months ago:
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- Comment on It's a tradeoff 2 months ago:
There is a small wormy parasite that attacks our red blood cells (RBCs).
It turns out that people with mutant and half-mutant RBCs are less likely to be attacked by the parasite.
Also, the red blood cells of the mutant variety are more likely to be cleared by white blood cells than those that are non-mutants.
Full-blown (homozygous) mutant RBCs kinda suck at their day jobs though. Whereas half-mutant (heterzygous) RBCs are still mostly functional by comparison.
So being a little weird, but not totally weird, gives an advantage over normies (wild-type) when the RBC parasite is common.
Were there no parasite around, the advantage would go to the non-mutant RBCs because they do their job best. Their downside is being easy targets.
- Comment on It's a tradeoff 2 months ago:
For the curious: www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa072464?url_ver=Z39…
- Comment on Protein 2 months ago:
“Those are some good-lookin helices you have there. Wanna come back to mine and try out some novel ways to fold?”
- Comment on What did the snowball Earth look like? 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Science or some other arcane wizardry PCM 3 months ago:
Comrade Pauli?!
- Comment on Chat, what do you see? 3 months ago:
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 3 months ago:
You’ve convinced me.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)
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- Comment on English Ivy 3 months ago:
Because Crake is saving it for some special project at Rejoov.
- Comment on Launches 4 months ago:
To the depths of Jupiter, then.
- Comment on Sexual dimorphism 5 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? 5 months ago:
The godhead got bored and felt like playing hide-and-seek.
- Comment on Botany 5 months ago:
Capsicum annuum?
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 5 months ago:
You just can’t get away from them.
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 6 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? 7 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 7 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 7 months ago:
- Comment on No going back 7 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 7 months ago:
Can a TI-84slinger explain this for us pipette-wielders?
- Comment on Microplastics found in every human testicle in study 8 months ago:
Reminds me of Charles Moore talking about bisphenol A and males in Garbage Island.
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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?
