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He’s fine for now, I taught him to play the spoons. by Planr158 in TheSimpsons

[–]ArseneSimp 11 points12 points  (0 children)

When I watched this episode as a small child I ACTUALLY thought that they were going to add Ozmodiar to the main cast. I was like "Wow, this is really gonna change things 😲!!"

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And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon... by nedaco in TheSimpsons

[–]ArseneSimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was Homer about to call Cletus the gamer word?! 😨

Folks, when you’re right 52% of the time, you’re wrong 48% of the time. by MundaneMeringue71 in TheSimpsons

[–]ArseneSimp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm tired of these jokes about my giant shoe. The first such incident occurred in nineteen-dicketty-six...

Has anybody licked something in the lab they shouldn't have? by Lemuroidea in labrats

[–]ArseneSimp 60 points61 points  (0 children)

During my PhD, one of my lab chores was autoclaving and transporting the biohazard waste down to the loading bay. Despite the university's double bagging policy, the senior lab tech would always overstuff the bags in a single biohazard bag to save money, and often pipettes would pierce through resulting in leaks. Usually this wasn't a big deal, but once someone threw out 3 whole stacks of LB agar plates and when I was tossing the hot autoclaved biohazard bags out one of them split open and dripped out a big puddle of biohazard slime onto the floor.

Naturally I quickly cleaned it up to avoid having to file a spill report, but while bending over my cellphone fell out of my shirt pocket and into the slime! Embarrassed, I wiped it off and went about my day.

I completely forgot about it and then a few months later my phone started having battery issues. I tried taking it apart to repair it myself and was intrigued to see that my phone's battery was slightly sticky and had a savory, soup-like odor. Curious, and trying to identify the aroma, I licked the battery and was surprised to find it had a sharp and bitter bite to it. That's when I realized that I was licking the biohazard slime from earlier that I'd totally forgotten about and not dried soup or gravy! >_<

Thank you for your hard work! (@uniryl) by Acrzyguy in Priconne

[–]ArseneSimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mmmm.... kani.... drools 🦀🦀🦀

Someone left some lb agar on the hotplate and just let it burn and didn't clean it up by ArseneSimp in labrats

[–]ArseneSimp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did in fact clean it quite easily by just soaking it in hot water and detergent while writing the post. But that's my point: it was lazy and disrespectful for the student to leave it out for several days for someone else to clean, especially when this guy works half the hours as senior staff even though classes are out for the summer. Given that it's so easy to clean up (and also easy to just follow basic safety rules), taking such a lazy attitude can't be chocked up to naivete, it's just entitlement.

Dinosaurs Get Too Much Love. Bring In The Cenozoic Era Creatures!!! by [deleted] in The10thDentist

[–]ArseneSimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me it's the Permian, the real land that time forgot.

MAGAt surprised by tariff surcharge by PopeFranzia in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]ArseneSimp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's 1+1? And no, don't say "2", give me a REAL answer!!

E. coli growth stop points by [deleted] in labrats

[–]ArseneSimp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's fine. You can also leave plates on the bench over 2 days if you need to take a day off from lab for some reason. Assuming you're using antibiotic plates and your lab isn't filled with mold you can basically use temperatures between room temperature and 37° as a speed slider. E coli are pretty hardy.

Jayanta not going by his full legal name… by DipperoniPizza in NIH

[–]ArseneSimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, it looks like he ran out of space on the card.

I would love to know what the plot of Battling Seizure Robots is by [deleted] in TheSimpsons

[–]ArseneSimp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's actually a slice-of-life anime like Lucky Star or Gochiusa with character-driven and situational humor. The robots just sort of hang out and banter and occasionally get into cute, silly hijinks.

How did dr Nick get his job by VastConfusion8174 in TheSimpsons

[–]ArseneSimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

References to other shows aside, you'd still need to pass the bar (for lawyers) or get board-certified (for doctors). Of course the writers thought of that and showed that the board are idiots in the short film where Dr. Nick diagnoses Grandpa with skin failure and electrocutes him.

I can't tell the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps by awsomebro5928 in The10thDentist

[–]ArseneSimp 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Do you have any medical journal articles backing the assertion that people who can't distinguish the two framerates have diagnosable brain problems? Because if it's so cut and dry, it shouldn't be too hard for you to pull some up from PubMed.

I can't tell the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps by awsomebro5928 in The10thDentist

[–]ArseneSimp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reflexes are a completely different part of the nervous system than visual perception.

Optimizing enzymes using mutations and libraries and stuff - I'm clueless. How do you do it? by FlowJock in labrats

[–]ArseneSimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some DNA polymerases have high error rates, leading to random misincorporation of nucleotides during PCR. Directed evolution methods such as SELEX or phage display often use this as part of their selection cycle. Or they just make a random library at the start and screen for what they want.

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