It’s mental how this is pretty much known worldwide, like drawing that S thing. The one similar to the Suzuki logo
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blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
TheEntity@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As a non-native English speaker, I still have no idea why this specific phrase is so significant and at this point I’m afraid to ask.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I was born in the 1970’s and it is lost on me too, I think its something that became a thing to the generation after me
rbos@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I think it comes from an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and exploded as a meme.
xpinchx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think it’s just the most simplified you can get talking about cellular biology, specifically when teaching organelles. So most primary science textbooks use that terminology and it’s more memorable than all the other organelles so it just stuck and it got repeated and reviewed every year and it sorta became a pre Internet meme and part of a shared consciousness if you were schooled in the US.
Naz@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
6th grade biology class in the United States.
The teacher slaps up a diagram of a cell and organelles.
30-45 children all looking around the room, not exactly paying attention
She points to the various organelles, trying to explain their purpose, the golgi complex, ribosomes…
“And the mitochondria”
“Is the power house of the cell”
Children cheer in applause and repeat it, because it rhymes.
It then enters the collective unconscious of English speakers.
I was in the room where it happened.
boonhet@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The S was known worldwide pre internet though. Was the powerhouse line?
neatobuilds@lemmy.today 2 months ago
They are both universal knowledge passed down through generations
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yoga@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Can we take a step back and just appreciate how good Bluey is?
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Challenging but accessible
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Inclusive
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Emotional depth
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Grounded
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Not disgusting annoying
I really appreciate when kids shows are made with parents/guardians in mind (ie will watching the same episode 50 times make you want to off yourself or not)
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s really amazing. The only (not really) downside is that certain episodes make me tear up.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You will also have to enslessly play the games they’re playing.
Geobloke@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I haven’t actually been able to watch the special episode properly because my wife and daughters are too busy crying. I do love how stripe is kicked out of the bushes by Wendy
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It is really nice to have a children’s TV show that doesn’t scream the title and characters’ names at us over and over, mainly to make sure we remember to buy merchandise
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Take another moment to realize how shit Paw Patrol is.
- Not challenging, has clear cut good/bad dynamic. Bluey doesn’t have "bad guys"
- PP is fairly inclusive.
- Almost not emotional depth, everyone is always in a good mood.
- Started off fairly grounded, but then power scaling for no reason.
- Repetitive and boring.
- What the fuck is up with dogs being intelligent enough to do the PP things, but also being subservient to humans? The whole dynamic is so fucked, Bluey doesn’t have humans at all.
I only compare them because the are both dog based kids shows. But PP sucks
Yoga@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I almost added “Not ADHD bait” as a positive for Bluey and calling out Paw Patrol specifically but wanted to be more positive lmao
Truely a turd of a show.
Junkernaught@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Such a great show. That Sleepytime episode always ruins me though. About how kids need their parents less and less as time goes on and they become more independent, fuuuuck.
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JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
What’s interesting to me about that phrase is that no one uses the word “powerhouse” for anything else any more, except maybe to call something powerful.
Since it’s not the 1920s any more and we have an electrical grid and centralized power generation. We still sometimes do use temporary off-grid generators, but we no longer have any need for a dedicated word that means “building or shed that we keep our generators in”.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Power plant🌱
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yes, that’s the word that everyone uses for the large generating stations that create power on a large scale like a manufacturing plant creates goods on a large scale.
Its rare for us to have “power houses” now, and when we do no one calls them that.
Trollception@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The power generating stations near me are still called Power houses.
LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lmao I was watching an episode of ST: Voyager the other day and a little girl learning about mitochondria said they were the “warp core of the cell”. That phrase is ridiculously pervasive
affenlehrer@feddit.org 2 months ago
I don’t know. Wouldn’t that mean cells could violently explode and cause a chain reaction if nearby cells exploding as well?
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 months ago
What’s with americans and mitochondrias ?
ScrooLewse@lemmy.myserv.one 2 months ago
It’s been so ubiquitous for so long that I honestly don’t know where it came from. But most of the time when I hear “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell” it’s being used to take a jab at how impractical our education system is, as though to say, “instead of teaching me about X, they taught me about the mitochondria”
LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
Mitochondria are cool and important.
NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Grew up in Asia. Only moved to the US for undergrad… And this applies. So it’s not just the Americans methinks.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 months ago
That’s interesting
We don’t have that where I live, sure we had to learn the organelles of a cell, but there wqs no über-focusing on the mitochondria.
(Btw I didn’t know about “methinks”. Learned a new word, thanks !)
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The phrase “Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell” was coined in a 1957 article by biologist Philip Siekevitz. It apparently rattled around in the English lexicon until 2013, when a tumblr user by the handle apatheticghost posted the following:
what I learned in school
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I am a fucking piece of shit
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everybody else is also a piece of shit
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mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
This blew up in popularity and variations emerged that replaced the first two items with various social commentary, but always kept the mitochondria line. It stood for a kind of universal frustration students have with school, that a lot of the curriculum feels like memorizing game show trivia answers rather than useful or practical skills applicable to adult life. Loads of us have no idea how the tax system works but we can all parrot biology factoids.
The phrase became one of those catchphrase in-jokes. A bit like how you can’t say 69 without saying “nice” anymore.
My on personal Mandela Effect: I’d swear I’m from the parallel universe where the phrase comes from the Bill Nye The Science Guy theme song, but apparently I’m thinking of “Inertia is a property of matter.”
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Thanks for the detailed answer !
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SabinStargem@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Our politicians of a Sithian persuasion want to use Force Lightning on their enemies and subjects. Sadly(?), mitochondria are not quite the same as midi-chlorians.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
P O W E R H O U S E
neatobuilds@lemmy.today 2 months ago
She’s mighty-mighty, just lettin’ it all hang out
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
T H R I L L H O
perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 months ago
M I L P O O L
snekmuffin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Inertia is a property of matter
BlursedTarot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins
fox2263@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mitosis is….
biscuit@lemdro.id 2 months ago
Damn, I haven’t thought about that 90’s Sabrina show since, well… the 90’s!
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why does everyone know this, but still think metabolism is solely built towards fake weight loss regimes?
SeboBear@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Same here in Germany - immediately came to my mind!
truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 2 months ago
Its so ubiquitous that LLMs will always say it like that when it comes up.
rainrain@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There’s this book. Sequel to Wrinkle in Time i think. Where this 4 year old brings up the subject of mitochondria in class. Gets pummeled for it.
jagungal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This has got to be the funniest summary of A Wind in the Door
Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I learned about mitochondria from Parasite Eve. Damn I wish they’d remake that.
Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
came here to say this. hopefully they don’t become sentient and destroy the island of manhattan… or maybe it’s not a bad idea afterall
FrChazzz@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I came here to say the same as well! Every time I see the word mitochondria I immediately return to fighting that T-Rex and those awesome green weapon range domes. What an excellent game.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
it’s at this point a joke seem in non science contexts
Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
The oft repeated line is grammatically incorrect.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
thankfully grammar isnt science
Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
No, but in other examples, incorrect grammar can make a statement scientifically incorrect.
Signtist@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It was ruined for me when I was getting my masters in genetics and learned that “mitochondria” is plural, and the singular is “mitochondrion.” So, it’s either “the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell” or “the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell,” and neither feel right.
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel like the leading “the” is what’s messing that up.
“Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell” sounds fine to me.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
*powerhouses might be better(it sounds better for me)
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I refer to one piece of broccoli as a broccolus.
smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Except its Italian, not Latin, so the singular is broccolo . If you want to use the Latin word,.it’s broccus
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have one die gives one datum at a time.
Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why have you done this to us?!
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
A grammatical error in a translation from a foreign galactic basic to English is what ruined the force for you? Lol. If we can believe in defying gravity, I think we can believe the iceburgs is the ships fear.
trevdog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I constantly struggle with what’s proper and what sounds right when using Latin plural in English.