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 (DIR) Post #AQAJNpWtzSZbppUVzU by encelado@mastodon.sdf.org
       2022-12-01T14:18:39Z
       
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       I should have loved #biology - J. Somers"I should have loved biology but I found it to be a lifeless recitation of names: the Golgi apparatus and the Krebs cycle; mitosis,meiosis; DNA, RNA, mRNA, tRNA.In the textbooks, astonishing facts were presented without astonishment. Someone probably told me that every cell in my body has the same DNA. But no one shook me by the shoulders, saying how crazy that was. I needed L.Thomas, who wrote in The Medusa and the Snail [..]"https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
       
 (DIR) Post #AQAJNpwmRFH185bBKK by Hempressemilym@13bells.com
       2022-12-01T14:21:40Z
       
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       @encelado “... The mere existence of such a cell should be one of the great astonishments of the earth. People ought to be walking around all day, all through their waking hours calling to each other in endless wonderment, talking of nothing except that cell.”