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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 week ago (10 children)

they use a lot of other things… including living human cancer cells in a petri dish

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I believe the vast majority of cultivated human cells are cancerous cells anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

when researching cancer drugs, yeah

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Actually it's used in everything, it's available, it's well studied, it's cheap, and most importantly it grows fast in a lab, so it's easy to work with....

I wish I was joking, but lots of in vitro human research is done on the poor women's cancer cells when the research has nothing to do with cancer, it's quite the confounder

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

they use stem cells a lot for that sort of thing too

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