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    1 month ago

    I once had a chemistry professor who would collect samples of like dirt and other things whenever he went to places remote enough where he figured other chemists hadn’t studied, because he thought you just never know when you’re going to run across a new compound.

  • Subverb
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    391 month ago

    Microbiology: One of the few professions where you wash your hands before you go to the bathroom.

  • BlueKey
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    281 month ago

    Can also be the other way around when for example biology finds a new immune therapy and chemestry a new way to dissolve your lung.

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    91 month ago

    During undergrad I had to schedule my microbiology and pathology classes during lunch hour. Worst two semesters of my life.