pardum.bsky.social
Scientist doing everything I can to distract myself from the lab. Obsessed with genre literature and TRRPGs.
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I have no idea if they are ever seen being used, but I do know they're supposed to be code cylinders, like a USB drive type thing.
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The analogy of "DNA is like computer code" has been disastrous for the understanding of biology, especially amongst people with money.
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Like 90% of my rich guys fantasies involve setting up hyper focused art grants to see what comes of them.
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I wonder how much of this is because Church is one of the few people not really beholden to grant-based finding like everyone else. He has the privilege of being the innovator that gets the money to work on whatever ideas come into his head like reviving extinct animals.
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Ever since undergrad I've thought that genetics and molecular biology needed something the equivalent of NASA telescope pictures. Something that a lay person could look at and understand enough to think "that's cool" and get interested in the field. Sadly the closest we get are a false bill of goods
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What are the sledgehammers for? From how it was described on the pod it sounded like they were holding them in the air like weights or something, not cuddling them like a teddy bear.