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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Paclitaxel Memes

Posts tagged with Paclitaxel

When Organic Chemistry Breaks Your Brain

Chemistry Science Research Medicine
1 year ago 29.9K views 0 shares
When Organic Chemistry Breaks Your Brain
That moment when someone casually drops a complex chemical structure and claims it cures cancer! The top part shows Paclitaxel (Taxol), a legitimate chemotherapy drug with a ridiculously complicated structure that looks like alphabet soup had a baby with a geometry textbook. Meanwhile, the rest of us are having an existential crisis trying to remember if oxygen has 6 or 8 electrons! This is the perfect representation of that gap between specialized scientific knowledge and the general public. Chemists are nodding smugly while the rest of us are frantically Googling "what does NH mean" and questioning our life choices!

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My mini PC costs $3 a month. The VPS math for 2026

Two months of smart-plug data from my home mini PC: 22 kWh and CA$3.08 in August, priced against DigitalOcean, Hetzner and Oracle's free tier ... Read article →

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