stubbed toes and mud pies

[flowerbug]

you hear the expression often that water is life...

this isn't too much of a surprise to me:

Water Molecules Found To Actively Drive Gene Transcription ProcessUniversity of California – San Diego​

Water Molecules Found To Actively Drive Gene Transcription ProcessUniversity of California - San Diego - Astrobiology

Researchers have uncovered a previously hidden layer of complexity in how genes are activated

astrobiology.com

 

[ruralmamma]

my big mistake was that i never had pre-calculus before going to college and because i really undrestood algebra and geometry etc. really well i advanced placed right into calculus but i was lost.

autodidacticism is how i spent many many hours as a kid because i was curious about anything (and still am if i have the time ) i could read and Mom was involved in setting up two libraries. i spent many hours in both of them.

I started college when I was 28 and scored high enough that I wasn't required to take a remedial math or English class. Big mistake on the math part as I never went farther than geometry in high school. Ended up being tutored by a math teacher my mom had in high school and managed to pass the math part of the Praxis exam on the first attempt.

We lived about 15 miles from town and usually only went there once a week. I remember the kids library card was limited to twelve books at a time and had to convince Mom to check out the rest of my stack of books on her card. Used to lay in the ditch and read in the summer which sounds more horrible than it was. Spring that fed it dried up by summer and was replaced with a soft carpet of grass.