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After July 15th Evie stopped writing dates and instead numbered the entires via tally marks. I couldn't replicate them in text so I used counting rods instead.

𝍠 𝍡 𝍢 𝍣 𝍤 𝍥 𝍦 𝍧 𝍨

^ here's what they look like, placed in numerical order, from 1 to 9

[waybackjournal]

Embarrassed to admit but I'm having some fun wandering around here. Lots of cool art.

[waybackjournal]

So for anyone that cares, the diary is dated from 1967-1968. So theirs some outdated language in it which I will tag for.

I'll add a little * to words I either couldn't fully figure out what they said, or provide context if needed.

That's all for now.

~Z

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[scriptchemist]

I'm really bad when it comes to advanced sciences so sorry if this is stupid, but is there any connection between chemistry, bio chemistry, and genetic engineering? I have a character who is good at chemistry and stuff and maybe runs a chemistry lab but needs to be connected to human experimentation with genetic modification to create a "super soldier" more or less. He's a minor character but I still need the basic idea. Sorry if this is a bad ask.

It’s not a bad or stupid ask, anon. Don’t worry about it!

There’s a connection between the three in that the principles of chemistry underlies why things happen the way they do (caveat: there are still many, many things we don’t know about the human body). But if you’re asking whether a character can be an expert in chemistry, biochemistry, and genetic engineering, my answer to that is “probably not.”

Chemistry encompasses the study of the properties, structure, composition, and changes in matter. Since there is a lot of matter, chemistry is divided into many sub-disciplines, which vary in the subject and the scale. A chemist’s specialty can range from the subatomic to the macromolecular. If your character is good at chemistry, you need to ask yourself: “what type?” Being “good at chemistry” doesn’t tell me much (unless you want your character to be a subject matter expert for all of chemistry, which stretches my suspension of disbelief quite a bit).

Biochemistry focuses on the structures, functions, and interactions of biological macromolecules, such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids.  Loosely speaking, biochemistry would be studying the processes that are already there (and we’re still constantly discovering new things, so we’ve hardly exhausted all that biochemistry has to offer)–metabolism, tissue repair, signalling, and much more can all be considered under the (already very broad!) biochemistry umbrella. Biotechnology and genetic engineering, on the other hand, would be manipulating genes and an organism’s genome to do something specific–in this case, create a super soldier with super abilities. Those are two related, but different, focuses.

I suppose if you want to make a super soldier with Wolverine’s healing powers, Jean Grey’s telepathy, and the speed of the Flash you need to know what’s already there before you mess around with improvements. That said, I wouldn’t expect any one person to have all that knowledge, especially with something as complex as a human being (producing super abilities would likely involve manipulating many, many genes at a time, which increases the complexity considerably). It’s far more likely for the super soldier project to be a collaboration between many, many people. Some might be responsible for actually inserting/removing genes, some might be responsible for figuring out what gene X + Y + Z does in a vanilla human, some might study the aftereffects of replacing X + Y + Z with A + B + C and how that translates to actual, observable differences in the human physiology, some might be the ones cleaning up after failed test subjects. There are lots of roles connected to a super solder project. You can decide whether your character is a knowledge expert in what’s already there, if your character will be doing the experimenting, or something else.

~Z

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