I thought that the human body was incapable of making glucose. Learned about gluconeogenesis during a university nutrition course
paranoid linux sadgirl with imposter syndrome
I thought that the human body was incapable of making glucose. Learned about gluconeogenesis during a university nutrition course
would be an injectable radiation therapy or a radiotracer for a PET or SPECT scan. afaik radioactive tracers aren’t used in MRI or regular CT scanning
Quite possibly. A lot of their electricity aversion stems from avoidance of relying on an electric grid owned and maintained by outsiders.
(Which to be fair is also pretty based)
I remember freaking out over the first touch screen I ever encountered (at mom’s bank ATM when I was a kid). It really is magical until it’s mundane lol
What sounds like a scream could also be an episode of “exploding head syndrome” (the most hilariously dramatically named relatively mundane sleep phenomenon)
I’ve experienced it a handful of times in my life and it is very startling! Especially the 2 times where it sounded like someone shouting my name from inside my skull. Brains are so weird
oh hey it’s my lock screen!
obligatory link to the Zalinki video
🤠 happy cake day pardner
Cyberchase
ZOOM!
Zoboomafoo
that’s also a top notch username
wait is it genuinely irritating to sprinkle in greetings/thanks/you’re-welcomes in other languages cuz i do that a lot cuz i like learning new words 🥺
I’ve gotten 2 skin burns from chemicals with a nitrile glove breakthrough time of <1 second
underfunded undergrad lab classes without heavy duty gloves shouldn’t be allowed to use fuming nitric acid >:(
I rarely arrived at the lab before 10am as an undergrad intern. (And usually stayed until 7–8pm because I goofed around too much and it took forever to get all the cells taken care of 🫠)
Flexible schedules are a luxury I miss dearly
we used Macs at my last lab
I hated them because I’m a Linux nerd but at least they were reliable
(I suppose if my research PC ran Linux I’d spend all my time configuring it instead of researching…!)
putting a whole new modern spin on the “gay bomb”
found the escalator engineer
but I am impatient and also I hate escalators and want to spend as little time on them as possible :[
Kubuntu is like wearing a condom because you have to
(it’s the only thing that consistently boots on my weird Samsung laptop. everything else intermittently boot loops…)