eukaryote

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I’m Georgia. I crosspost some of my writings from eukaryotewritesblog.com.

Eukaryote Skips Town—Why I’m leaving DC

eukaryoteMar 26, 2025, 5:16 PM

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Learn to write well BEFORE you have something worth saying

eukaryoteDec 29, 2024, 11:42 PM

67 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

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I got dysentery so you don’t have to

eukaryoteOct 22, 2024, 4:55 AM

320 points

6 comments17 min readLW link

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Recommendation: reports on the search for missing hiker Bill Ewasko

eukaryoteJul 31, 2024, 10:15 PM

169 points

28 comments14 min readLW link

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Web-surfing tips for strange times

eukaryoteMay 31, 2024, 7:10 AM

48 points

19 comments9 min readLW link

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Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon

eukaryoteApr 13, 2024, 4:08 AM

104 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

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Book review: Cuisine and Empire

eukaryoteJan 21, 2024, 6:15 AM

40 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

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Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11

eukaryoteJan 7, 2024, 4:49 AM

57 points

9 comments32 min readLW link

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Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not?

eukaryoteJun 25, 2023, 4:31 AM

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33 comments13 min readLW link

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 Who invented knitting? The plot thickens

eukaryoteFeb 5, 2023, 12:24 AM

60 points

9 comments19 min readLW link

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Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!”

eukaryoteAug 4, 2022, 8:37 PM

124 points

15 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

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There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

eukaryoteMay 3, 2021, 3:47 AM

340 points

59 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

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Missing dog reasoning

eukaryote and Bird Concept

Jun 26, 2020, 9:30 PM

27 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

A point of clarification on infohazard terminology

eukaryoteFeb 2, 2020, 5:43 PM

52 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

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Eukryt Wrts Blg

eukaryoteSep 28, 2019, 9:42 PM

13 points

140 comments1 min readLW link

Tiddlywiki for organizing notes and research

eukaryoteSep 1, 2019, 6:44 PM

42 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

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How to make a giant whiteboard for $14 (plus nails)

eukaryoteJul 7, 2019, 7:23 PM

29 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

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Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness

eukaryoteMay 19, 2019, 6:40 PM

95 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

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Spaghetti Towers

eukaryoteDec 22, 2018, 5:29 AM

212 points

38 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

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The funnel of human experience

eukaryoteOct 10, 2018, 2:46 AM

83 points

31 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

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