Alaik comments on when you work in an interdisciplinary institution:

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[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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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[–] janus2@lemmy.zip [S] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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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[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] HorikBrun@kbin.earth 3 points 1 year ago

The worst ones are... radioactive, or asbestiform. So....

Kyanite is harmless but nasty.

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