Helen Arney
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“But when you’re only using edible cocktail ingredients to extract DNA, you need as much as possible in the first place. Strawberries are the connoisseur’s choice as they are octoploid, with eight copies of the genome in every cell. Yum.”
― The Element in the Room: Science-y Stuff Staring You in the Face
― The Element in the Room: Science-y Stuff Staring You in the Face
“Although the parallel truism, Wirth’s Law, states that software becomes exponentially slower to run as computer power increases, so the net gain from upgrading your hardware is much smaller than you’d expect.”
― The Element in the Room: Science-y Stuff Staring You in the Face
― The Element in the Room: Science-y Stuff Staring You in the Face
“Rorschach test, created by the Swiss psychologist who gave them his name. Hermann Rorschach never intended his blots to be used to assess personalities, but as a way to diagnose schizophrenia, and first published them under the unassuming title Psychodiagnostik in 1921. He never lived to see his namesake travel across the globe as he died the following year.”
― The Element in the Room: Science-y Stuff Staring You in the Face
― The Element in the Room: Science-y Stuff Staring You in the Face
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