lambdabeta

@lambdabeta@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨human anteaters⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m one of the very rare people that have the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap, but likes it. I blame the soap flavoured gum I had as a kid here in Canada.

  So maybe save a little soaplantro for those that want it ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colours of Blood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. Clear, easily understood explanations of questions I always wondered. 👍🏼

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colours of Blood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever I see this image I always wonder 2 things:

  1. What makes hemoglobin more efficient?
  2. Why do we even need these fancy molecules to transport oxygen? Can’t we produce some kind of biological ampule that holds some pure O2 for consumption by the various processes that need it? We have dedicated organelle structures for similar tasks (i.e. mitochondria)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drink it, I dare ya⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently it’s not even really all that stable, so that whole container would rapidly decompose into probably carbon dioxide (CO2) and a bunch of pure carbon (think charcoal). At least that’s my hunch. There is a Wikipedia article on the stuff, but it’s pretty short, since it’s a pretty unusual chemical (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicarbon_monoxide).

  CO2 is of course extremely common. I’d love to see what a chemist can describe about a bottle of C2O though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNS over Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you read the readme, this looks like it’s specifically for when you don’t know the correct tld or spelling of the site you’re looking for. Google searches often censor sites of borderline legality, but they’ll usually still have Wikipedia articles with accurate links.

  This specifically only redirects .idk domains as a search helper. Could it possibly work better as a browser extension? Maybe. :)