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Can we take a step back and just appreciate how good Bluey is?
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Challenging but accessible
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Inclusive
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Emotional depth
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Grounded
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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.
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What’s with americans and mitochondria ?
Grew up in Asia. Only moved to the US for undergrad… And this applies. So it’s not just the Americans methinks.
That’s interesting
We don’t have that where I live, sure we had to learn the organelles of a cell, but there wqs no über-focusing on the mitochondria.
(Btw I didn’t know about “methinks”. Learned a new word, thanks !)
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 refer to one piece of broccoli as a broccolus.
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)
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.
Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins
Its so ubiquitous that LLMs will always say it like that when it comes up.
Inertia is a property of matter
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 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.
6th grade biology class in the United States, 2001 AD.
The teacher slaps up a diagram of a cell and organelles.
30-45 children all looking around the room, not exactly paying attention
She points to the various organelles, trying to explain their purpose, the golgi complex, ribosomes…
“And the mitochondria”
“Is the power house of the cell”
Children cheer in applause and repeat it, because it rhymes.
It then enters the collective unconscious of English speakers.
I was in the room where it happened.
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 took biology in 1996; it wasn’t a thing yet. Someone else claimed it was already widespread by 2001. I don’t think I encountered it in the wild before 2005, but it could have been much later than that.
KnowYourMeme suggests the phrase originated in a textbook from 1957, but it didn’t reach memehood until 2014.
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.
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the meme originated from tumblr. the quote itself is older than color tv.
Lol that’s like saying a joke originated on the Family Guy
The S was known worldwide pre internet though. Was the powerhouse line?
They are both universal knowledge passed down through generations
…maternally via mitochondrial DNA
we are the self-preservation society.
The exact origin of the symbol (cool S) is unclear; however, it is generally considered to be an artifact of childlore, meaning that it is taught by children to children over the course of generations.
TIL
Cool S wiki
I learned about mitochondria from Parasite Eve. Damn I wish they’d remake that.
came here to say this. hopefully they don’t become sentient and destroy the island of manhattan… or maybe it’s not a bad idea afterall
Mitosis is….
Damn, I haven’t thought about that 90’s Sabrina show since, well… the 90’s!
P O W E R H O U S E
T H R I L L H O
M I L P O O L
She’s mighty-mighty, just lettin’ it all hang out
Why does everyone know this, but still think the definition of “metabolism” is solely built towards fake weight loss regiments? Bit of a tangent.
the mitochondria is the energy center of the cell
The oft repeated line is grammatically incorrect.
thankfully grammar isnt science
No, but in other examples, incorrect grammar can make a statement scientifically incorrect.
this is why science is written with lots of care and they use Latin words and phrases that cannot be misunderstood
