I once donated to a MLP abridged animated series called “scootertrix”. Are one point I was afraid it was going to get removed from YouTube so I downloaded every episode.

Actual real life chemist here. This is not new. We’ve had “chemistry predictors” based on graph theory for decades. All that’s new is that this is AI based. So… potentially less accurate than the current tools.

TIL that I’m Japanese

I’m a PhD candidate in chemistry. I’ve never once seen sodium refer to the salt, sodium chloride. Sodium is the metallic form or the atom.

However, why sodium, tungsten, lead, antimony, tin, silver, gold, mercury, iron, and potassium and not their Latin forms? Natrium, wolfram, plumbum, stibium, stannum, argentum, aurum, hydrargyrum, Ferrum and kalium? I don’t really know. Mostly it’s just fun trivia for me to tell the undergrads.

I unreasonably loved this movie when I was younger. It has some flaws for sure and some of the emotional stakes are a little… overblown. But presentation, world building and Robin Williams bring it to an easy 8/10

Tell me you live in a city without telling me you live in a city.

But srsly it’s because it’s beautiful and unique every time. And the sun is below the horizon when we are looking