It was ruined for me when I was getting my masters in genetics and learned that "mitochondria" is plural, and the singular is "mitochondrion." So, it's either "the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell" or "the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell," and neither feel right.
I feel like the leading "the" is what's messing that up.
"Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell" sounds fine to me.
*powerhouses might be better(it sounds better for me)
I refer to one piece of broccoli as a ~~broccolus~~ broccolo.
Except its Italian, not Latin, so the singular is broccolo . If you want to use the Latin word,.it's broccus
I feel like Broccus would be a badass name for a dog.
I have one die which gives one datum at a time.
Why have you done this to us?!
A grammatical error in a translation from a foreign galactic basic to English is what ruined the force for you? Lol. If we can believe in defying gravity, I think we can believe "The iceburgs is the ship's fear."
I constantly struggle with what's proper and what sounds right when using Latin plural in English.
It's mental how this is pretty much known worldwide, like drawing that S thing. The one similar to the Suzuki logo
As a non-native English speaker, I still have no idea why this specific phrase is so significant and at this point I'm afraid to ask.
I was born in the 1970's and it is lost on me too, I think its something that became a thing to the generation after me
I think it comes from an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and exploded as a meme.
It’s not from any specific media reference, it’s just essentially what every child was taught, verbatim, in grade school.
Apparently as an Internet thing it only really took off in 2013 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mitochondria-is-the-powerhouse-of-the-cell
Huh, I figured it was Dexter's Lab or some cartoon.
the meme originated from tumblr. the quote itself is older than color tv.
I think it's just the most simplified you can get talking about cellular biology, specifically when teaching organelles. So most primary science textbooks use that terminology and it's more memorable than all the other organelles so it just stuck and it got repeated and reviewed every year and it sorta became a pre Internet meme and part of a shared consciousness if you were schooled in the US.
We actually had the same sentence as the headline for the chapter about mitochondria in our class in the late 90s, just translated. "Mitochondrien - das Kraftwerk der Zelle"
The S was known worldwide pre internet though. Was the powerhouse line?
Can we take a step back and just appreciate how good Bluey is?
Challenging but accessible
Inclusive
Emotional depth
Grounded
Not disgusting annoying
I really appreciate when kids shows are made with parents/guardians in mind (ie will watching the same episode 50 times make you want to off yourself or not)
It's really amazing. The only (not really) downside is that certain episodes make me tear up.
You will also have to enslessly play the games they're playing.
I haven't actually been able to watch the special episode properly because my wife and daughters are too busy crying. I do love how stripe is kicked out of the bushes by Wendy
It is really nice to have a children’s TV show that doesn’t scream the title and characters’ names at us over and over, mainly to make sure we remember to buy merchandise
Take another moment to realize how shit Paw Patrol is.
I only compare them because the are both dog based kids shows. But PP sucks
I almost added "Not ADHD bait" as a positive for Bluey and calling out Paw Patrol specifically but wanted to be more positive lmao
Truely a turd of a show.
Such a great show. That Sleepytime episode always ruins me though. About how kids need their parents less and less as time goes on and they become more independent, fuuuuck.
What's interesting to me about that phrase is that no one uses the word "powerhouse" for anything else any more, except maybe to call something powerful.
Since it's not the 1920s any more and we have an electrical grid and centralized power generation. We still sometimes do use temporary off-grid generators, but we no longer have any need for a dedicated word that means "building or shed that we keep our generators in".
Power plant🌱
Yes, that's the word that everyone uses for the large generating stations that create power on a large scale like a manufacturing plant creates goods on a large scale.
Its rare for us to have "power houses" now, and when we do no one calls them that.
Mitochondria is the solar farm of the cell.
The power generating stations near me are still called Power houses.
Lmao I was watching an episode of ST: Voyager the other day and a little girl learning about mitochondria said they were the "warp core of the cell". That phrase is ridiculously pervasive
Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins
Inertia is a property of matter
Mitosis is….
Damn, I haven't thought about that 90's Sabrina show since, well.. the 90's!
Why does everyone know this, but still think the definition of "metabolism" is solely built towards fake weight loss regiments? Bit of a tangent.
Its so ubiquitous that LLMs will always say it like that when it comes up.
Same here in Germany - immediately came to my mind!
There's this book. Sequel to Wrinkle in Time i think. Where this kid brings up the subject of mitochondria in class. Gets pummeled for it.
This has got to be the funniest summary of A Wind in the Door
the mitochondria is the energy center of the cell
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