As someone who is in the medical field, I am so sorry when I do that, but it is so much fun. You get to please a colleague, get intrigued and fascinated in a pair, and tell the patient that whatever their problem was is now known! Most of the time it also means you can actually start to help the patient, which is always nice, rather than doing more investigations.

That’s silly thinking. Everyone knows birds aren’t real, so they’re just late-stage planes created by engineers forced to follow certain constraints.

The easiest way is to use the principles of conditioning. Pair a stimulus with a certain color light, then start flashing up different colored lights. If the organism is cued to the stimulus by multiple colors of lights, it means that they can’t really distinguish between them.

That’s how we tested when kids lose the ability to distinguish certain phonemes.

That… is unsettling. I remember the fruit fly experiments I did in college, and I am now barfing imagining those vials being put opened in an orifice.

Most teenagers I know, and myself when I was one, are much messier than at any other stage in their life. The issue for most is that they are old enough to start sneaking food into their rooms that a kid wouldn’t, or that the kid can’t hide as effectively. I’ve had to come spray for pests in more teenagers rooms than any other part of the age spectrum.

So… in the manner of gndagreborn above, AAAAH U GESTATED!

What is perhaps more heinous is that the little fucker is able to milk his notoriety

I think we can rest easy on that. Every time you hear about him now it’s just a laughingstock. I don’t think he’s in a great financial situation, and has completely failed at public appearances so he isn’t going to get political power. He’s more of a painted pony that the repubs can trot out every now and then.

It took me a minute to wrap my head around the citations bit. I don’t know why, but I’ve always heard it said as “cited/referenced, X times,” and I did think about how odd it was to get caught 16,000 times.

I mean, ATP would be more like the batteries, yeah. The mitochondria would be the whole power plant, and the little spinny generators would be the big spinny generators.

It varies. I didn’t get the phrase parroted at me until in college, when the professor was making fun of the phrase. I bet it was some slide that was created by a teaching board or textbook maker, and just copied ad nauseam.