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 Slow and steady wins the race. 4 days ago:
Cheers!
- Comment on What's the worst hacking scene from any movie or show? 4 days ago:
Hollywood hacker bullshit. Not once have I ever come across an animated singing virus.
- Comment on What's the worst hacking scene from any movie or show? 4 days ago:
“I bet you right now some writer is working hard on a TV show that’ll mess up this generation’s idea of hacker culture.”
- Comment on How can I improve my handwriting? 5 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago:
- Comment on No going back 6 days 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 6 days ago:
Can a TI-84slinger explain this for us pipette-wielders?
- Comment on This is what I hired you for! 2 weeks ago:
Turkish delight?
- Comment on Humanity making progress like it always does 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Humanity making progress like it always does 4 weeks ago:
Do you convert dead organic matter into fertile soil or pollinate flowers? They do. If insect populations were to vanish, so would humans. They perform too many vital functions that humans cannot.
- Comment on viruses 4 weeks ago:
It passed through all the filters! So small it passes the filters and kills–poison, toxin. But wait, it can be diluted to lowest possible effective concentration, and then with addition host it grows back to high concentration. What poison does that?
- Comment on viruses 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on viruses 4 weeks ago:
o7
“Obligate intracellular parasite” was drilled and showed up on multiple exams, along with all that you mentioned. I’ve also heard “escaped cellular machinery.”
Absolutely fascinating…if a tad frightening.
- Comment on No competition 4 weeks ago:
Hey, at least the samples are still in the gel rather than the buffer solution!
Maybe this’ll help:
thermofisher.com/…/na-electrophoresis-troubleshoo… - Comment on Freud 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on What doesn't kill you… 4 weeks ago:
It looks like they were going for cellular scale, which would explain the absence of icosahedral shapes as viruses would be way too small at this scale. However, some parts look like colonies rather than cells.
Most cells would not be this colorful unless stained or grown on media that colors them.
Hard to say what specifically they were trying to portray. MRSA and Strep look represented, still looking for Candida auris. Maybe some cyanobacteria?
To tell friend from foe would require more than looking at them–DNA sequencing, drug resistance assay, etc.
- Comment on Cannabis 4 weeks ago:
“What’s with all the files named after cannabis strains on the gcms and lcms computers?”
“I was making a point.” - Comment on Niches 5 weeks ago:
Looked like it from the picture, but I wasn’t sure. Then went back and forth on “lupin” or “lupine”. Didn’t know that about Iceland.
- Comment on Niches 5 weeks ago:
Lupine?
- Comment on stinging nettle 1 month ago:
- Comment on Lil grippers 1 month ago:
www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&tax…
The pitchfork pedipalps are adorable. Lovely little organisms.
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- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Looking away on New Years Days 5 months ago:
Regard each other as you pass
She looks back, you look back
Not just once
Not just twice
Wish away nightmare
Wish away nightmare
You got a light, you can feel it on your back
A light you can feel it on your back
Jigsaw falling into place
