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Cell cultures... pluses and minuses

– You need to come every other day to feed them, otherwise they die or differentiate. – You have to come on weekends too. – If you are not super super careful, some bacteria or yeast will eat them up. – Even if you are super super careful, some bacteria or yeast will sometimes eat them up. – In experiments, there are huge differences in the behavior of cells so you will have huge errors and have to repeat the experiments multiple times to prove your point.

+ You have to do it, so your other studies are tested on something alive and thus are proved relevant.

That's it. Nothing else to the + list. Cells are bitches. You have to nurture them and pamper them and sacrifice weekends, and then they die or behave unpredictably.

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Orache moth, Trachea atriplicis, Noctuidae

Photographed in France by Matthieu Berroneau

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i miss these kinds of visuals for websites. RIP

Illustrations of electrical sparks from Memorie - Classe di scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali ser.3:v.1:disp.1 (1877).

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You know. Reading is important. Because I'm like always trying to make every line I write this groundbreaking mindfucking art but like. A book is 90% just saying what happened. "I hugged him around the waist." "The chair was brown and overstuffed." "I woke up alone." Etc etc. Like normal ass lines. I just keep comparing my boring, necessary to set a scene lines, with famous authors' absolute best lines and like.... every line doesn't have to shatter the earth. Sometimes someone just sits in a chair and the lines that wreck you come later, one at a time, here and there. It's alright.

What it looks like when neurons make connections and communicate with each other

Credit: slava__bobrov 

Good morning , I can't choose which book to read today