azi

joined 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

My uncle was a med lab tech in the hospital. They still had "no mouth pipetting" signs up in the late 90s.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Organisms need some oxidizing agent to respire. We use oxygen because it's very highly reactive and thanks to photosynthesis is goddamn everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

When avoirdupois pounds and pounds-force are used together I'm pretty sure it's more common to use 'lb' for avoirdupois pounds and 'lbf' for pounds-force.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Maximum is 100 °F and minimum is 95 °F. Those seem pretty arbitrary to me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

"Had to hand-lower it in to prevent splashback. WorkSafe you know"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

good ol' nominal typing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Pipetting liquid glowstone

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

which protein is this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Don't forget ethnographers and the surname Tree

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think the comic is about types of published articles with the 3rd being "we collated and collected a bunch of data to make this database that other researchers will find useful"-type papers. So you don't need to rely on the map of every tree if you just map some trees yourself.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago

Serbian

Map of Siberia

view more: next ›