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this is what I do instead of studying chinese
A mimulus plant in distress
Makes pigments that help it survive:
While boo mutants die under stress,
The wild-type pinks tend to thrive.
In other news: still loving my department LIKE YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE. Okay. :D -
itty bitty bacteria
YOU GUYS, SCIENCE. SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!
I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH <3 FOR THIS LAB. I WILL GO AWAY NOW. AND MAYBE HOME. SCIENCE!!!!! -
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I do not want to do work. Somebody, distract me! -
SCIENCE!
I'm supposed to be doing my homework, but I'd rather not (c'mon, you guys, I have a Chinese midterm, give me a break :P), so instead, I'm going to write about evolution. One of my classes this year is an upper-division biology class, Experimental Ecology & Evolution (E3, for short, and I love it more than any class ever), which is giving me uppity ( Read more... ) -
what should I read?
Having just got back from the library with another bagful of books, I realize that I should probably pick one and finish, or at least pick a few and finish one. Accordingly, HELP!
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John Le Carré (British spy novel set during the Cold War, of the paperwork and tension kind rather than the explosions and improbable ( Read more... ) -
Yesterday.
I got up at 6ish, so that I could vote before my lab; I'd've skipped it with the rest of my classes, but it's the lab we've been working on out of class for the past month (Cassie and other interested parties: bacterial resistance to antibiotics), so it didn't seem quite kosher. My adorable professor bounced around a bit, told us all to vote, and ( Read more... ) -
YES WE DID.
FUCK. YEAH. -
no, I don't really have time to be doing this, why do you ask?
A flagellum is a nice device:
It makes your movements more precise,
And if you grow in Petri dishes
It helps you to fulfill your wishes.
But if you are a test tube cell,
Without one you will do quite well! -
WTFF???
No, really.
"The residents of Broward County, Florida have recently received misleading robocalls telling them that they can vote by phone on Election Day, according to a report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Friday.
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Another unknown group is distributing flyers (see the flyer after the jump) with official-looking letterhead around the area ( Read more... )