rat ramblings - my random thoughts & highlighted posts
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I'm a undergrad biology student, who enjoys chemistry.
Probs will give you boring explanations.
Please let me know if I mess up, I will look at a few recent posts of the blogs I reblog/interact with, doesn't mean I endorse everything that a person has said
(Yes I am aware of the ethical implications of animal testing, ik its complicated)
I was today years old when I learned that you're incredibly attractive. Respectfully? Wow.
(Sorry for the alt account, my main has people who know me in real life and don't need to know when I get a crush.)
Anyway, that's all. I promise I won't be crazy or anything, i just had to let you know you're amazing
this is wild thank u
you should spend your time looking for fish rabies. With the recent discovery of frog and anole lyssaviruses, I truly beleive there is some sorth of icthyolyssavirus. but I don't have the time to look.
I finished Grimshire, on Grim difficulty, completely blind, no wiki, with NO DEATHS. Apparently there are cutscenes warning you that you’re getting too close to a deadline, and I never saw one
I did SO WELL. I thought I was on a knife’s edge the whole time, but I did so well! And it only took several months of being too scared to continue because what if I mess up and get everyone killed!
So yeah. Great game, really good at building dread and stress. The whole gameplay loop is basically just this
Rewatching organic chemistry lectures to prepare for an exam, but instead of taking notes, I’m writing down the weird things my professor says. And so…
An incomplete list of the unhinged stuff my organic chemistry professor has said:
Rule one in organic chemistry: carbon is a working girl. It bonds with basically everything
This is an alcohol. Something quite popular amongst students, I believe
A thiol kinda looks like an alcohol. But alcohols are usually enjoyed, whereas thiols is what skunks use when you’re stupid and unfortunate enough to piss them off. Do with that what you will.
There will come an age when your doctor gets worried about your high cholesterol levels, which often makes people wonder why we even have cholesterol if too much of it is so unhealthy. Let’s say it like this: if suddenly all your cholesterol vanished, your doctor would be pleased but you wouldnt be. You’d be a puddle on the floor.
How to know whether an anion is stable? Rule number one, and I’m sorry to say this, but gentlemen, your girlfriends lied. Because size does matter.
No self respecting scientist uses the IUPAC- naming system. But you still need to know it for the exam. Sucks to be you
An addition reaction is the most romantic reaction in chemistry: two things become one. But romance never lasts, and so just like that, one thing can fall apart into two again
For the exam, the bar is nearly on the floor. Just don’t write anything that is impossible and you’re good. And yet every year there are students who dig beneath the bar and fail anyway
The Sanger reaction was named after chemist Frederick Sanger, who is the only chemist to ever receive 2 Nobel prizes in chemistry. Marie Curie was also a chemist who got 2 Nobel prizes, but one of those was for physics so that’s a bit more complicated. Of course, there’s also the chemist Linus Pauling, who got 2 Nobel prizes as well… but one of them was the Nobel prize of peace and those don’t count
I forget if I showed the beautiful Tyrian purple that they made in the synthesis chemistry lab that I collaborated with at the art museum. They’ve been synthesizing mostly blue pigments and dyes from throughout history. This was my first time seeing Tyrian purple in person and I was so excited!
Historically it was made from murex snails and was hugely expensive and used by royalty, but chemically it’s similar to indigo so the class was able to create it in the lab without snails.
looking for animal references on image searches has always kind of sucked but it's much worse after AI image generation technology has begun to actually past muster, which is why i always just go straight to inaturalist. can't recommend this highly enough. you get to both find out about niche species you've never even heard of and also see some really good photographs like this one
love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.
I finished Grimshire, on Grim difficulty, completely blind, no wiki, with NO DEATHS. Apparently there are cutscenes warning you that you’re getting too close to a deadline, and I never saw one
I did SO WELL. I thought I was on a knife’s edge the whole time, but I did so well! And it only took several months of being too scared to continue because what if I mess up and get everyone killed!
So yeah. Great game, really good at building dread and stress. The whole gameplay loop is basically just this
Some is better than none. Some is better than none. Some is better than none. Walking for three minutes, is better than nothing. Drinking a glass of water and eating a snack, is better than nothing. Wiping down the counter, is better than nothing. Small things are not nothing. Small things are not nothing. Small things are not nothing. You don’t have to achieve grand things if all you’re capable of right now is the smaller things. They are still achievements. Don’t do nothing just because you don’t think you’re capable of doing bigger things, just do something you’re capable of today. 
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