• Owl
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    4 hours ago

    What’s with americans and mitochondria ?

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      19 minutes ago

      Our politicians of a Sithian persuasion want to use Force Lightning on their enemies and subjects. Sadly(?), mitochondria are not quite the same as midi-chlorians.

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      It’s been so ubiquitous for so long that I honestly don’t know where it came from. But most of the time when I hear “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell” it’s being used to take a jab at how impractical our education system is, as though to say, “instead of teaching me about X, they taught me about the mitochondria”

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          But I’d like to have learned actual practical information as well. Not once has mitochondria come up other than as a meme, but knowing how local and national government works might have been more useful. If it wasn’t on the state standardized test, it wasn’t taught at my schools.

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            Understanding the building blocks of life is very important. This is the foundation of how your body processes energy. If you want to lose weight, for example, you should understand respiration.

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      Grew up in Asia. Only moved to the US for undergrad… And this applies. So it’s not just the Americans methinks.

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        37 minutes ago

        That’s interesting

        We don’t have that where I live, sure we had to learn the organelles of a cell, but there was no über-focusing on the mitochondria.

        (Btw I didn’t know about “methinks”. Learned a new word, thanks !)