• Alaik@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    But how did the rocks you find TASTE?

    I’ve always appreciated that as a prior valid qualification method in field geology as a biologist.

    Licking our cultures, buffers, and samples tends to be frowned upon.

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      3 days ago

      i mean we used to have mouth pipetting and DuPont chemists smoking in the lab and noticing the taste of their experiments on the cigs lol

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        3 days ago

        Yeah I had an old chemistry professor of mine would habitually turn his head sideways when working in the hood. Lol