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50cal-fullauto-astarion · 6 months

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Blah blah blah, massive jerking off motion, sugar daddy Colonel König with a f!reader!30 year old, established sugar baby doing it for a laff fic bullet point idea I've been bullshitting around with under the cut:

Again, bc y'all know me, this is just my fuckin oc dressed up as a reader but yknow what whatever. It’s my maladaptive daydream and I’m generalizing enough to share it.

You’re a doctor of organic chemistry, working in pharmaceutical forensics at a lab that largely deals with multinational jurisdiction drug offenses for various state agencies. The work pays pretty well, as it’s government scale, but it is dull and repetitive.

To get your kicks, you sugar baby casually on a semi-regular to regular basis. It suits you. You’ve never established a meaningful long term relationship, flings come easily to you, and older would-be romancers have always taken interest in you in ways that people from your own age bracket haven’t.

Sex or no, it all depends on who is approaching you, the decision ultimately yours.

And they don’t have to provide monetarily, no. You’re well established, more than that even. Once they understand that aspect of you, they shift their approach, and that’s when the fun starts.

Gifts, trips, concerts, dinners—whatever you want, all of it a discreet text away.

None of your entanglements last terribly long. You’re off-putting, in your way, your mannerisms, your directness. Most of your paramours find that it doesn’t click for them. If you’re having sex, it doesn’t matter how mind blowing it is—usually for your partner, though you’ve had the occasional winner—one way or another it ends. And you have been the one to end it, especially when you feel it growing strained and pointed toward what services you provide your temp partners. You’re no stranger to the sudden and surgical cut.

One such situation leads a Colonel to a spot at your feet.

One of the dudes who wandered into your carousel was Declan O’Conor, of KorTac. He’d been intrigued by your intensity at first, and the sex was some of the best he’d ever had, though you thought he lacked skills in foreplay. He was generally brusque however, and tended to ignore the trade of attention and gifts in favor of his desires, which left you cold and unimpressed.

gonna be real, i left off here like two days ago, and i'm 2 hours into my last work day before my weekend, so i'm not bothering with extra detail, we're wheelin' and dealin' now, lads.

a certain colonel gets a hold of your email through declan, a nanosecond before you dump declan's ass. the timing? immaculate. the colonel could not have done better. isn't he fucking lucky.

he's heard declan bragging about his new bird. she's smart, she's discreet, she fucks like a succubus. she doesn't even want money, or a relationship. shit, she doesn't even care if you're married or have kids, she wants no part of your real life. she just wants fun and stimulation.

well. ain't that just what the colonel is looking for, he lies to himself. könig is almost half convinced you're an escort dressed up as a woman looking for a good time, but what the fuck does he know. and from what he's gathered, the way people approach you is myriad, but you're picky as for how long things go on.

he's drowned at work, has no desire to go bar crawling or trying to pick up a dumbass hobby to try and meet someone, and he, if he's honest with himself, does not have the time to dedicate to an actual relationship, is mildly horrified at the idea of using an app to date, and is approaching his mid 40s. his work is too demanding, he travels too much, he's too burnt out. fun sounds fun.

he shoots off the email.

what he gets in return: "interesting that o'conor seems to be recommending me around, as that's not part of the agreement. but i'll meet you. tell me when you're next in berlin, and we'll set a date. should it cross your mind, bring me something interesting."

smth smth, time moves on, you end up meeting up with him for dinner. he insisted. he knew a place. you hoped like hell it wasn't some overblown officer's club. that shit was always dead boring and full of the most disgusting braggadocio you've heard in your life. testosterone beating off against testosterone, trying to find out which one nuts first.

but, nah. he hauls you to a korean bbq joint that's a real down and dirty hole in the wall, and immediately you're impressed. the food is amazing. it's quiet. he is ENORMOUS, but has an air of cinders about him.

you can tell he used to run off rage, almost solely. it must've burned down over the years, or his fuel had taken a hit that it could never recover from. he's tired. he's looking for ease.

he wears a gaiter covering the bottom half of his face and neck, and you find it curious as the dinner starts, your booth in the far back, away from prying eyes.

thought it was for your comfort. he'd already spoken of your discretion, that he was well aware, and interested in the same. his position in his org is high up, he works with sensitive info, his clearance is big time spooky. things you're familiar with from your own work.

he calls his work security, and you call your own science. it is enough.

he warns you about his facial scarring before the meal begins, giving you the choice to avoid seeing him eat, and you turn down that offer. "i can assure you that i've seen worse," you say, confident, unshaken at what he might be hiding. your history is a darkness, it runs deep, and ruin is not unfamiliar to you.

he seems pleased, or at least mollified, and pulls down the gaiter. the lower half of his face is a wreckage, almost at odds with the wheat colored curls - all shot through with silvery-gray - tied into a tail at the base of his skull, and the blue of his bag-bruised eyes. a botched cleft lip surgery, exposing big, fuck-around-find-out teeth in a scar that leaves him always snarling. rippling burn scars crawling up from his ravaged neck, pulling at the corner of his eye.

at least he will eat, if nothing else.

it is one of the rare times he will allow you to see this.

at the end of the meal, after some good conversation, dancing light around heavy realities, secrets that can't be told, you sit back and watch him with curiosity-heavy eyes, a contentedly full stomach, the foot of your crossed leg hovering in the air between you under the table.

he's pulled his gaiter back up, peeling euro bills off a fat clip he pulls from his pocket, dropping them on the table, overpaying the meal. perhaps the privacy. perhaps the server. perhaps the flash of it.

"i didn't forget," he laughs, voice still higher than you'd expected, but rasping and rough as gravel churning mud and blood.

"apologies. i'm impatient. it is my nature."

"hah. have that in common, then, hm?" he laughs, going for another pocket.

usually, you expect jewelry on the first date. it hasn't been uncommon with the people you run with. perhaps even technology. you were afforded an iphone 14 pro max a month before they'd even come out, but you'd held onto it and resold it later.

and this fascinating könig pulls out a box, as well. you almost feel your stomach sink. you'd been hoping...well. it doesn't matter what you'd hope. and maybe it was foolish to harbor a small, chittering desire that he'd be different, after the turns your conversations took.

he plunks it down on the table in front of you, rapping two long, powerful fingers on the plain lid. it's not even that impressive of packaging. oh, your stomach churns with impending disappointment. sometimes these men end up cheap. you steel yourself, falling into your resolve.

a fossilized horse tooth is what is presented to you when you open the package, as well as a business card for a fossil and crystal dealer. you catch sight of a beaded bracelet on his wrist, carnelians.

"didn't know what sort of science you're in, but figured i couldn't go wrong with a fossil. or a horse. you have horse girl energy."

he's smirking. you tip your head back and cackle, mind flooded with your years on your school's equitation team and the summers you spent trekking across continents with your grandmother by horseback.

the energy shifts perfectly, and you pull your head down, beaming at him. running the toe of your heels up his calf under the table, you roll the fossil-black tooth between your fingers, following the grooves, feeling the age. this horse would've been about nine when it died. not bad for a wild thing. most of them didn't find the miracles of old age.

"what gave it away? the posture?"

"oh ja. jawohl. it's the posture. even leaned back, sit like you're setting your ass in a saddle."

"mhm. sounds like you've done some riding yourself."

"when i was younger, yes. half-sway-backed plow nag, though. nothing so fancy as what people might picture, with the accent."

"not everyone can afford warmbloods, it is true."

you fold the tooth into your closed hand, silence falling comfortable between you. and here it is.

"i think we should find a place for the night, don't you?" you ask, and you can see his mouth pull into a smirk under the mask.

"hah. good thing i thought ahead then. i booked a room--some place nice. you'll like it." his confidence would be off-putting. it should be off-putting. but it isn't. it's almost a relief. it's definitely a turn on. he's not feeling out your approval, at least not visibly.

you were both looking for fun. and perhaps you've found it. at the very least, he is not treating this as a fight to be won. maybe he would not've been crushed or vitriolic if the night ended with nothing further, ever again. you don't know. you let him help you into your coat, and into a cab, and you find your flesh-ripping want yelling louder and louder with his arm draped casually across the back of the seat behind you.

and good christ, does can he fuck.

okidoke, i'm cutting this one here, sry. i will probably continue it more formally (? idk) later once i've worked on some other stuff, but i wanted to get this one out, yeehaw. hope u enjoyed!

#konig #könig #call of duty #cod mw2 #mw2 #konig mw2 #konig call of duty #konig x reader #my work #my hcs #??? don't know boss this has just been rattling in my head forever

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meiieiri · 3 months

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my roman empire is me imagining suguru geto making me tea while i’m toiling over countless failed organic synthesis schemes and subsequently tearing my master’s thesis manuscript into pieces thereby effectively ruining my chances of getting a phd in pharmaceutical chemistry

#⚘—letters to ei #that wall you see there? I DID THAT #i am THIS CLOSE TO BURNING THIS MANUSCRIPT #AND IT’S ONE OF THREE #WHY DIDN’T ANYONE STOP ME WHEN I PLANNED ON SYNTHESIZING A CERTAIN ORGANIC SPECIES THAT INVOLVED A 5 STEP REACTION #im doomed

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materialsscienceandengineering · 11 months

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Porous crystals made from plant extracts purify water from pharmaceutical pollutants

Researchers from Stockholm University have developed porous crystals made from pomegranate extract to capture and degrade pharmaceutical molecules found in local municipal wastewater. The research is published in the scientific journal Nature Water.

Pharmaceutical compounds affect the human body to improve our health, but they can also have unintentional adverse effects for the well-being of wildlife. Hence wastewater treatment plants are facing the challenge of removing emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) such as active pharmaceutical ingredients, and therefore new materials and technologies are required.

One strategy for removing pollutants from water is by using porous materials that behave like sponges. Metal-organic frameworks, so called MOFs, are a type of nanoporous material that are made of metal ions and organic molecules. Most MOFs are made using synthetic organic molecules. But now researchers from the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, have managed to develop new porous MOFs using a naturally occurring molecule found in plants—ellagic acid.

more at the link

#top gun #icemav #writing #top gun fanfiction #iceman kazansky #maverick mitchell #principles of aviation

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theyareweird · 6 months

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Assassination Classroom: Manami Okuda —Aesthetic

Manami Okuda's Character & Personality

Manami is a student at Kunugigaoka Junior High. She used to be part of the Science Club. Thus, Manami's favorite subject is science while her least favorite was literature. Being gifted with intelligence in this subject, her skill increased after incorporating literature as she can decipher complex technical jargons and translate them. Now, Manami reads pharmaceutical encyclopedias and organic compound dictionaries instead of picture books. As an assassin, she isn't good with surprise attacks. Manami only excels in chemistry and mathematics, which landed her in Class 3-E with low grades. However, she's quite capable of making the most deadliest poisons for assassinations. Manami can also make potions for various situations, like a homemade smoke screen. This makes some students associate her with being a witch. Manami's favorite food is Honeycomb Toffee. She's quite an introverted girl who's somewhat shy. Manami has poor language skills, which causes her to be quite straightforward. Despite this, she's sweet and quite determined. Manami hopes to be useful to her friends and classmates. Eventually, she becomes a much more sensible individual who can express herself more.

#manami okuda #anime #assassination classroom #art #assassin #aesthetic #moodboard #science fiction

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kingdrawcse · 1 year

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Chemistry behind painting pigment (2)

Carl Wilhelm Scheele was a Swedish-German pharmaceutical chemist. He discovered oxygen, and chlorine gas, and extracted uric acid, lactic acid, citric acid, and other organic acids from nature. He prefers to "taste" new discoveries for himself, and has tasted cyanuric acid! #pig

Scheele also deeply researched pigments, and he made a yellow-green pigment in 1775, named after himself, Scheele’s Green (CuHAsO3), which replaced copper carbonate. In the early to mid-19th century, Scheele’s green was popularly used for painting pigments, clothing dyes, toys, and even food, because people were unaware of the toxicity of arsenic. To improve the stability of the pigment, the equally toxic Paris green was invented. In the 1930s, after learning about the toxicity of arsenic, Scheele’s Green and Paris Green are used as pesticides, becoming the first chemical pesticides.

#green #green aesthetic #parisgreen #pigments #pigment #painting #toxicity #chemistry class #chemblr #stem studyblr #stemblr #science news #did u know #factsmatter #amazing facts

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laurestephens · 4 months

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— BASICS

Name: Laure Stephens (nee Rothschild) Age / D.O.B.: 47 / March 3, 1976 Gender, Pronouns & Sexuality: Cis woman, she/her, lesbian Hometown: New York City, New York Affiliation: Syndicate Job position: Director of Sotheby’s Auction House / Smuggler Education: Fine Arts from NYU, PhD in art history from Columbia (thesis on 18th century European antiquities) Relationship status: In an open marriage Children: None Positive traits: Creative, effervescent, gregarious, warm-hearted, disarming Negative traits: Secretive, calculating, Machiavellian, arrogant, spiteful

— BIOGRAPHY

The eldest daughter from a family who has been connected with the fine arts scene for generations. Her father, several aunts and uncles, and many more cousins hold various roles within the industry, from collectors to curators to restorers. Not joining the family business was never an option for Laure, but she never contemplated the idea to begin with, far too enamored with her cushy lifestyle to ever give it up.

Initially started out as an an artist herself, often working with oil paints or charcoal, though she never turned it into a career. These days she solely has personal pieces in her studio, and the occasional gift to friends. Instead, Laure turned her attention to the business of art, how each piece exchanged hands and moved from museums to private collections. The wealthy have always used art as a means of displaying their opulence and it’s a well that never runs dry.

She gets her start at Sotheby’s, the famed London auction house that has relocated to the city. Her connections land her a prized role as an associate, putting her in direct contact with priceless artifacts and their owners. She deploys every tactic she’s ever been taught to build connections and become an integral part of the business. There’s not a single part of the auction process, from procurement to sale, that she doesn’t understand.

Laure meets her wife Kiri while they are in grad school, she for her PhD in European antiquities history and her wife in pharmaceutical chemistry. It is a match of opposites, but Laure is a woman who goes after what she wants. They are married on her family’s property upstate, and Laure finds a lifeline outside of her family and their stringent expectations.

She is 31 when she first learns of her family’s ties to The Syndicate, when one of her cousins becomes a loose end in one of their business deals. He was in charge of moving product between New York and Europe, and a mistake cost him his life. Laure steps forward to redeem the Rothschild name within the organization, offering her position at the auction house as a new method for the gang to launder stolen items. Millions of dollars worth of product are legally moved through their warehouses each day. What’s a couple million more?

She doesn’t tell Kiri about the new development at her work and doesn’t see the need to. She is family, but she’s not family. Laure knows the consequences for telling the Syndicate’s secrets, and she has no desire to get her wife involved with the darker parts of her world. What she doesn’t know won’t hurt her.

At 47, she acts as the main Rothschild contact with the Syndicate, a recent promotion after the death of her father. She takes care to keep her hands as clean as the fake records she keeps, and her family's reputation grants her a bit of that flexibility. There are others within her family who are also involved in the organization but if something goes wrong, it's Laure's neck on the line.

— WANTED CONNECTIONS / PLOTS

FELLOW SYNDIES - What it says on the tin. Laure has been a part of the Syndicate for nearly 20 years, though she tends to stay on the shinier side of things. Her role is one of enterprise, putting on a good show so no one questions the darker underbelly of the organization. She’d probably work closest with the forgers, though anyone can ask for her smuggling services.

1% - Laure is born and raised as part of the 1% and it shows. She has connections out the ass, and if people haven’t heard of her, they’ve definitely heard of her family. There will likely be history, positive or negative, whether it’s directly between muses or indirect between their families.

ARTIST PROTEGE - A young, promising artist who could use a leg up in the world. Laure looks out on the world as it exists and mostly doesn’t see anything wrong with it. The strong (read: wealthy) at the top, and everyone else falling in line underneath. However, she does find it a shame that art itself has become so disrespected in the world by the general populace, and if there were to be an especially talented artist that catches her eye, she wouldn’t be opposed to helping them find some opportunities (0/1)

FLIRTATIONSHIPS/HOOKUPS - Laure and her wife are in an open marriage, which means she’s not opposed to finding new playthings every once in a while. The one rule is that they never take their fun back to their shared home. She also makes it extremely clear that there is no possibility of anything more happening, and any attempt to approach that topic will lead to Laure ending all contact.

OLD DOG, NEW TRICKS - Up until this point, Laure has been able to get away with not actually doing anything particularly bloody for the Syndicate. She is not one for assassinations or brutal retaliations, and it's obvious that she is not trained in any way. Maybe something can happen that requires that to change.

EVERYONE ELSE - If your muse doesn't fall into any of the categories above, it doesn't mean that Laure won't interact with them. Just be prepared for her to embody that one Ryan Gosling gif from Crazy Stupid Love unless you can interest her in some way.

#wb.intro

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anarkissm · 1 year

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CYBERPUNK 2077.

according to canon: canada was one of the countries least affected by the collapse. vast resources and a small population made life easier. the slow rise in global temperature made the region an agricultural paradise. a nice place to live, if the corpos let you. being such a stable area , most of the major corporations set up large operations across the country. open corporate military force kept the american nomad population from streaming over the border. many of the smaller nomad families did find their way into canada, but only with the full cooperation of the corporations in question. many of the small families were hired and trained wholesale. CHOOH2 production is now one of canada's largest agro-exports. the new luxury market in hardwoods is its largest growing industry. but the true scope of the canadian economy encompasses all of the major corporations, products and services of the world. the national government is all but gone, replaced by corporations.

claudette morel grew up in a poor, diverse neighborhood in montreal to loving, working class parents who encouraged her interests in sciences. her maternal family were climate refugees, nomads of the thelas nation from south america who managed to enter canada’s borders after the collapse. claudette’s single-minded pursuit in organic chemistry accelerated her academic career and allowed her to have amazing job opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry. inevitably, she was hired as an intern by biotechnica in night city, california. progressing quickly in her field of expertise, claudette was promoted to field specialist. sponsors provided resources and seed capital to support her research on the coastal edges of the badlands, far away from the city. living out of a secure prefabricated lab-unit on a foggy, isolated beach in coronado, she studies the potential for seaweed and aquatic algae as a cheap, bountiful food source that would be able to grow one billion tons of resources in just 6 months; including dry food, biofuel, bio-plastics, carbon-capture, and fertilizer. undersea agriculture can potentially be commercialized to provide a cheap alternative food source to the insects raised in protein farms, and aid with marine restoration to rebuild the local fish population.

claudette spent eighteen months living on the southern california coast, intermittently returning to night city to give mandated in-person reports on her progress for the company’s head scientists. in the badlands, she has had to learn to be resilient and vigilant, defending her research from nomad raiders hoping to steal valuable technology from corpos... or worse, death squads paid by megacorporation petrochem’s subsidiaries to eliminate competition in the energy industry. the lab is built to survive bombings and artillery fire, protected by deadly quadruped robots that patrol its perimeters. several of her cousins are members of the thelas nation, who protect the borders of the americas’ west coasts, collaborating with biotechnica’s mercenaries to offer additional security.

#MOREL ，CLAUDETTE.#SCRIPT.#cyberpunk 2077 rp #iiits scifi dystopia brainrot hours

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 year

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Published: Jan 22, 2012

It doesn’t work. When tested under rigorous conditions – when neither the patient nor the doctor knows whether they’re using homeopathy or not until all of the tests are done – homeopathy has shown to work no better than a sugar pill. That doesn’t mean people do not feel better after taking homeopathy; only that those feelings aren’t related to the homeopathy. This is known as the placebo effect and is often misunderstood. Conventional medicine also has a placebo effect, on top of its other benefits. The choice between medicine and homeopathy comes down to a simple question: would you have a placebo, or a placebo plus a treatment that has been proven to work?

It couldn’t work. The theoretical principles that underpin homeopathy lack any scientific credibility and the so-called ‘laws of homeopathy’ do not tally with anything we know about the world around us. Only a basic understanding of chemistry is needed to demonstrate that that homeopathic tinctures can only be plain water. For more on the theory behind homeopathy, see our What is Homeopathy page.

It’s a waste of your money. The homeopathy industry is worth around £40million in the UK, and around €400million in both France and Germany. While this may seem small compared to the pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical medicines are required to show clinical effectiveness before they are licensed for sale. Homeopathy bears no such requirements and £40million is a lot of money to spend on something that you haven’t proved works. Homeopathic pills are being sold at a cost of around £5.95 for less than 20g of sugar pills. Without any active ingredient, that ultimately amounts to a lot of money for not a lot of sugar.

It’s a waste of everyone’s money. In the UK, the NHS spends an estimated £4million every year on homeopathy. The British government also supports four Homeopathic Hospitals using taxpayers money, in Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool and London. The evidence is very clear: homeopathy does not work and therefore has no place within the National Health Service. Despite the recent heavy cuts in public expenditure, the British government still refuses to cut funding for homeopathy, even when advised to do so by top scientists.

It’s a waste of your time. When homeopathy is accepted as a viable alternative to medicine, patients waste time taking useless pills and potions instead of seeking expert medical attention. For mild ailments, like a cough or a cold, the risks are minimal; but for patients with more severe conditions, time can be a significant factor in their recovery. Many homeopaths even directly encourage patients to wait before seeking medical attention, even when their condition deteriorates, claiming that worsening symptoms are a sign their potions are working. Moreover, patients with terminal conditions are left with an unrealistic view of their condition and may be distracted from making the most of the time they have left. This ultimately leads to more heartache and suffering when the bogus treatment proves futile.

It’s a waste of everyone’s time. Thousands of studies have been conducted into the effectiveness of homeopathy and its various ‘laws’. So far, none reliably shown homeopathy to be effective and most are conclusively negative. Any conventional treatment with a similar track record would have been dropped a long time ago. In fact, many treatments have been dropped, even with a stronger evidence base than exists for homeopathy. If we weren’t wasting time proving, yet again, that homeopathy doesn’t work, we could be looking for treatments that do.

There are alternatives to this alternative. The thing about homeopathy is, we don’t need it. Medicine works. Diseases like measles, whooping cough and polio are effectively prevented by vaccination. Modern anti-retroviral drugs help HIV sufferers manage their condition so effectively that AIDS is no longer the death sentence it once was. Homeopaths offer bogus ‘cures’ for AIDS, which leads to vulnerable people, sick to death, paying for the privilege.

It’s not what it says on the label. Buy a vial of 30C homeopathic sulphur at your local pharmacy and one thing you can be sure you won’t find in the bottle is any sulphur. You have significantly more chance of winning a triple rollover on the lottery than you have of finding even a single atom of sulphur in that tube; but the label still reads ‘Sulphur’.

It detracts from medicine. Giving legitimacy to unproven and ineffective treatments does not come without a cost. The cost of allowing the promotion of homeopathy as an ‘alternative’ to medicine comes when patients are unable to distinguish between a self-limiting condition which will cure itself given time, and a more serious illness which will become life-threatening if incorrectly treated. Stories of people abandoning medicine in favour of quack cures, with disastrous results, are not hard to find. By allowing the promotion of a therapy proven to be ineffective and implausible, we encourage people to turn their back on the treatments that can help them.

It has abused its placebo privileges. From time to time, it’s understandable that a simple-to-administer placebo treatment might carry some benefit for doctors, where no medical intervention has a particular, proven effectiveness. In these scenarios, it could be argued that homeopathy might have had a role to play, providing a harm-free, effect-free placebo to help manage the otherwise unmanageable. However, homeopaths abuse this minor level of legitimacy to make claims about conditions the placebo effect could not possible treat. Cancer, HIV, malaria, yellow fever, autism, tuberculosis. They discourage people from seeking medical help when they most need it. It’s time to stop lending support to quackery; time to give people the facts about this 200-year-old snake oil, before they choose to use it instead of the ever-improving and reliable interventions of modern medicine.

During World Homeopathy Awareness Week, be aware that homeopathy is complete pseudoscience bunk.

#QuackWatch #homeopathy #Homeopathy Awareness Week #World Homeopathy Awareness Week #fake medicine #placebo #placebo effect #medicine #alternative medicine #religion is a mental illness #pseudoscience

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steviexjohnson · 7 months

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name: stevie johnson goes by: sj, doc age: thirty-six birthday: september 17, 1987 gender & pronouns: cis-female & she/her label: the scholar orientation: heterosexual & heteromanticrelationship status: single hometown: manhattan, new york city, new york current town: tonopah valley, nv neighborhood: downtown

occupation: self-employed (unemployed) academic degrees: doctorate in pharmaceutical sciences, b.s. in pharmaceutical sciences affiliation: pozolero for los santos

biography & headcanons & plots (tw: cancer & parental death)

biography (tw: cancer & parental death) →

stevie lost her mom to brain cancer at age 6. her father never recovered from the grief and as she grew older, gave less and less of himself to her.

stevie is a stem girlie, always doing far better in the subjects where logic and reason prevailed. math and science were her besties.

she went to school for pharmacy at NYU getting her bachelors & pharmacy degree in six years.

her father had lost most of their fortune, but stevie was smart so she got a lot of scholarships. she's scrappy for a former rich kid.

when she graduated school, she went on a trip across the country to see what she had been kept from seeing as a kid--and found herself mixed up in the los santos gang by accident. apparently, if you're willing to give tasting notes on the product their selling....be prepared to put your money where your mouth is.

lucky for her, she could and quickly rose up the ranks to find herself as a valued pozolero for the organization. at first, she struggled with how antithetical it was to her plan of saving lives.

after a while though, it stopped mattering to her so much and it wasn't really like she could just...get out anyway. she didn't desire too. los santos was as much of a community as anyone else, and as the little girl that came from a broken world--she liked that she had a group of people. maybe not all of those people--but at least she belonged somewhere.

so over the years, her morales have grown grey and she's stopped being so picky about what happens. at the end of the day, the hero and the villian are decided by nothing more than what side of the street you're on.

headcanons →

stevie usually goes by sj, its simpler and easier and sometimes she gets less weird looks

big state fair girlie. huge, even.

as mentioned above, she's a total nerd. will geek out over all sorts of silly things, but some to note: some academic journals, getting a perfect category on jeopardy, random youtube videos, marvel, star wars, the lore behind video games....so decidedly not your stereotypical gang member. but then again, stereotypes aren't always right anyway.

she's not like a nerd in the "introveted, keeps to yourself" kind of way either--she loves meeting people and going out to hang. she is decently involved in her community and has even been known to volunteer at the local hospital for drug take back days.

she loves horses. full stop.

she also loves cooking. is like...creative chemistry that generally can't kill people. baking too--though she does find the specificity of it a little more like work and she doesn't love that.

plots →

neighbors

friends! local friends, new friends, old friends, friends from the past--anything!

enemies! we love angst here

romantic relations! could be exes, crushes, former flings, current flings

work associates (friendly or nah)

literally anything i suck at coming up with plots in a list way but i love to develop with folks!

#tv.intros #come love sj!!#shes nice and fun and i think is kinda cool?#idk i love plots lets plot!#intro #[[heroes & villans; stevie]]

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chemicalresearchupdates · 8 months

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Exploring the Global Aldehydes Market: Key Players and Market Dynamics

The aldehydes market is a segment of the chemical industry that deals with the production and distribution of a class of organic compounds known as aldehydes. These compounds are characterized by the presence of a carbonyl group (C=O) bonded to a hydrogen atom and a carbon atom in their chemical structure. Aldehydes find widespread applications in various industries, thanks to their unique properties and versatile reactivity.

In terms of market overview, the aldehydes market has been experiencing steady growth in recent years. This growth can be attributed to the increasing demand for aldehydes in industries such as pharmaceuticals, agriculture, food and beverages, and cosmetics. Aldehydes serve as crucial intermediates in the synthesis of various chemicals and are essential in the production of fragrances, flavor enhancers, and pharmaceuticals.

The growth in the aldehydes market industry can be primarily attributed to the expansion of these end-user industries. For instance, the pharmaceutical industry relies heavily on aldehydes for the synthesis of a wide range of drugs and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Additionally, the food and beverage industry utilizes aldehydes for flavor enhancement and preservation purposes, further driving market growth.

The aldehydes market is also influenced by evolving industry trends. One significant trend is the increasing emphasis on green chemistry and sustainable practices. Many companies in the aldehydes sector are adopting environmentally friendly production processes, such as catalytic hydrogenation, to reduce the environmental impact of their operations. This trend aligns with the growing awareness of environmental issues and the need for more eco-friendly chemical manufacturing.

Another noteworthy trend is the constant innovation and development of novel aldehyde derivatives with enhanced properties. This innovation is driven by the demand for higher-quality products in various industries. Researchers and manufacturers are continuously exploring new applications and synthesizing aldehydes tailored to meet specific industry requirements, which contributes to market expansion.

In conclusion, the aldehydes market is a dynamic segment within the chemical industry, driven by the increasing demand from various end-user industries. As industries continue to grow and evolve, the market is expected to witness further advancements, particularly in sustainable production methods and novel aldehyde derivatives, to meet the changing needs of consumers and businesses alike.

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materialsscienceandengineering · 10 months

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Resolving hydrogen atoms in small organic molecules depending on chemical bond type

Extremely intense X-ray pulses can determine the positions of some hydrogen atoms in organic molecules that form small crystals, an all-RIKEN team has shown. Many areas, including drug discovery and materials research, stand to benefit from this demonstration. Ever since William Lawrence Bragg and his father William Henry Bragg demonstrated that X-rays scattered from crystals produce distinctive patterns 110 years ago, X-ray diffraction has been the technique of choice for determining the structure of crystalline materials. However, many materials form crystals that are too small to be analyzed by X-ray diffraction. "Because many compounds cannot be obtained in large crystals, the ability to analyze the structures of small crystals is important in fields such as synthetic organic chemistry, pharmaceutical science and materials science," says Koji Yonekura of the RIKEN SPring-8 Center. Switching from X-rays to electrons can allow the structures of smaller crystals to be determined, but it has the downside that it requires very thin samples.

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kiristephens · 9 months

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— BASICS

Name: Kiri Stephens Age / D.O.B.: 47 / December 14, 1975 Gender, Pronouns & Sexuality: Cis woman, she/her, lesbian Hometown: Auckland, New Zealand Affiliation: The Cartel Job position: Drug manufacturer Education: Bachelors of Science in Chemistry from MIT, Master of Science in Biochemistry from MIT, PhD in Chemistry from Columbia Relationship status: Single (widowed) Children: None Positive traits: Intelligent, efficient, organized, patient, creative Negative traits: Ruthless, calculating, standoffish, arrogant, vindictive

— BIOGRAPHY

Born and raised in Aotearoa, Kiri had a relatively normal childhood for the most part. Things were far simpler in those years, and she grew up happy and healthy in the suburbs of Auckland with her sister and brothers. Still, Kiri had always wanted more than what the rest of her family seemed to be satisfied with. As she became a teenager, she spent more time venturing into the city proper, learning all that she could about the world beyond the walls of her home, and diving into the complexity it brought. She clashed with her family for those same reasons, and the happy childhood that she’d had quickly became strained.

To her parents’ dismay, Kiri applied to college in the United States, believing that her best chance at meeting her full potential would be to go the land of the free. She wouldn’t listen to their pleas to stay home, to be satisfied with the simplicity of life. She left New Zealand at 18 and has only ever gone back for visits since.

From that point forward, Kiri threw herself into becoming this idealized version of herself in her head. She graduated near the top of her class, a product of turning down multiple invitations to parties and opportunities to socialize. However, Kiri came to realize that in this world, her intelligence alone wasn’t enough. Men stared more at her chest than they did at her face, and rarely would they take her seriously, even when she was the most senior person on the team.

She first met her wife Laure in the middle of her PhD program at Columbia, and she very nearly let the opportunity pass her by because she was too self-involved. A serendipitous meeting gave her another chance and this time, she clung to it. She learned that life was much easier when she had a partner by her side, someone who unconditionally supported her, even if she didn’t always understand. Laure was an artist and an entrepreneur, a free spirit that brought a brightness to Kiri’s life that she never really thought possible. Where she was serious and focused, Laure was carefree and excitable, and they complemented each other perfectly.

The next fifteen or so years embodied everything that Kiri had fought for her entire life, and she basked in it. She had wealth, prestige, a sophisticated career, and a beautiful wife. She joined a well-funded lab that worked on cutting-edge research into the latest pharmaceuticals, putting her intelligence and ambition to good use. The products that she helped develop made absurd profits for some of these companies, and she took pride in the work that she did.

Of course, that kind of work doesn’t go unnoticed. With her name published in journals and articles, she received an offer from still relatively young Cortázar Cartel, to create a new synthetic drug that they could sell. With the amount of money they claimed they could make with such a product, neither Kiri nor Laure would ever have to work again. But while the idea was tempting, she had no desire to traverse that slippery slope and Kiri turned it down because she preferred the quiet life that she had built with her spouse.

Unfortunately for Kiri, that blissful dream was shattered a little over two years ago, when Laure was brutally murdered in what the police called a “random attack” by the Brotherhood, collateral damage to a turf war. Kiri, heartbroken and traumatized, became convinced that there was more to the story, insisting that someone had targeted her wife though she had no idea who would do such a thing to Laure. She had been a good person, far better than Kiri herself, and Kiri became obsessed with finding out the truth. After very nearly losing her job because she was so focused on revenge, she decided to walk away from everything she’d worked for up until now.

This time, Kiri was the one to approach the Cartel, offering her services not for the money, but for the vengeful streak that lived inside her. Since joining the Cartel, she has wasted no time in showing how valuable her skillset can be for a gang whose primary market was in drugs. She can most often be found at The Cancun, using the club as an easy front to smuggle and sell the drugs she manufactures, all while biding her time and quietly digging further into what happened with her wife.

— WANTED CONNECTIONS / PLOTS

The Brotherhood member that killed Laure - Could’ve been a hit, could’ve been personal, this is purposely vague to see how things shake out but the idea is that Laure is not innocent in this, despite seeming so to Kiri.

Other Cartel members, whether they respect her or not - She was a civilian not long ago and has no real “criminal” experience, but already she is deemed fairly invaluable for the products that she develops. There’s not as much ‘paying her dues’ as one might expect and some people could feel like she’s jumped the ladder. She's also not skilled in things like weaponry and combat, so often needs some kind of protection/muscle.

One night stands/flings/situationships - Since Laure, Kiri does not date but she does go home with people on occasion.

People she knows from her old, civilian life. Kiri is probably fairly well-known within the academic/scientific community, but she sort of fell off the face of the earth after her wife’s death, only to reappear several months later with an entirely changed outlook on life

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thephotonutstudio · 11 months

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REASONS WHY YOUR SKIN ISN’T GLOWING

Have you been using a thousand and one skin care products with a multitude of organic skin products and serums on your face and yet your skin isn’t cooperating? Annoying right ? I know.

What if I told you that I had a solution to your problems?

Well here are reasons why your skin isn’t giving

1. You’re using too many products

You’re probably using like five different products from different companies, any time you walk into a store and you see a product with attractive labels, boom! It’s off the shelf and into your cart, you take it home and add it your many many purchased products. You could literally open a shop with the amount of products you’ve purchased.

2. You need a break

With all the many many products you’ve heaped on your body, your skin needs a break , a time out. Like don’t you wonder how much stress you’re putting on skin from all these products? Take a day or two off your skin care.

3. You’re not getting enough sleep

did you know that getting enough sleep increases the blood flow to your skin, thus pumping oxygen to your skin to help breath out pollutants and rejuvenate your skin? no you probably didn't know that's why you're not keen on your sleep. It's called "beauty sleep" for a reason. when you sleep your skin repairs itself, the dead skin cells are shed off and the new and healthy ones replace them. During sleep, your skin also builds collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid which are the molecules responsible for skin’s plumpness, translucency and elasticity. Poor sleep also leads to dehydration and high Cortisol levels (a stress hormone) which increases the severity of inflammatory skin conditions such as acne or psoriasis and also trigger the skin’s sebaceous glands to produce more sebum (oil), which leads to clogged pores and breakouts.

4. Your diet

“You’re what you eat” has to be an underrated quote when it comes to health and lifestyle. Because eating high sugar, fats and processed foods puts you on a higher risk of skin inflammations and breakouts. Instead of going for that burger or junk food switch it up to fruits and vegetables (heavy on the fruits) because they are packed with antioxidants and minerals that are highly beneficial to the skin, back this up with a lot of water intake and watch your skin glow.

5. improper use of sunscreen

Choosing your sunscreen well is one thing and using it right is another, sunscreen helps protect your skin from ultra violent rays from the sun which makes your skin prone to irritation and aging as the rays harshly dries up the moisture in your skin thus damaging your skin. You’re supposed to reapply your sunscreen every two hours whenever your outdoors to help protect your skin. You can top this with vitamin C serum for double protection and glow.

6. organic skin care

Honestly I won’t advise anyone to use organic products on their skin unless it’s coming from your own blender mix because the things these vendors do are barbaric, they’d mix chemicals and label it as “organic” it’s obviously organic chemistry and they aren’t certified pharmaceutical companies so obviously you’re going to have adverse effects coming through. Most of these products damage the skin by thinning and bleaching it making it sensitive to sunlight and prone to irritation. So my advice? Drop those products and go for well branded skin care products. You can walk into any store and purchase them, your bank account might feel it but your skin would thank you and finally glow .

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adelaidedrubman · 2 years

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Necromancy, Lich, Full Moon and Demons for Jess; Tombstone, Nightmares, Cauldron and Potion for Jenna (I feel like I always send you a lot of these so - for this and any other asks - feel free to answer as many or few as you want, I won't be offended if you leave some out lol)

PLEASE BELOVED I APPRECIATE IT SO MUCH. i’m just the slowest and worst <3 but THANK YOU FOR SENDING

NECROMANCY - What are their views on death? Undeath? Immortality?

to quote the woman herself directly on the subject, death is “the void of nothingness when my organs stop functioning and i cease to exist in conscious form.” (wildfire, chapter 10.) she thinks death is genuinely the end, there is no afterlife. (or means of living forever — not that she would want to.)

that being said her feelings towards death are far less flippant than she usually puts on. she often finds herself overwhelmed with dread at the inescapable permanence of death and doing everything in her power not to think about it, despite the undercurrent of morbid fascination lurking in much of what she does. she’s haunted by grief from the people she’s lost (and killed), and deep down terrified by her own mortality. (and she’s being so normal about it.)

LICH - If they had to choose, which physical item would they pick for their phylactery?

one of her fishing lures, probably. but not one of the best ones, she still wants those around to use. if something matters to you, what’s the point of putting it in a fucking jar you gotta hide?

FULL MOON - What is one thing they try their best to stay ignorant of? What illusions do they uphold but really shouldn’t?

god, do her own emotional attachments count? jessie thinks what’s going on with her feelings is really, frankly, none of her business and she should stay out of it. for as emotionally perceptive as she can be when she’s actually paying attention, she tunes it out for her own feelings when she doesn’t want to think too hard about what they mean. she tends to feel her emotions from the bottom-up anyways, they manifest in a very visceral, physical manner first and she interprets them from there — if she wants to. if she doesn’t, her train of thought can abruptly terminate. she over rationalizes so much, but some of her points of most intense emotions she just. drops.

and on paper jessie is disillusioned to a fault, she generally doesn’t hold any idealistic notions or positive distortions about the world around her, other people, or herself. (to the extreme extent of earnestly considering john to be a naïve optimist, in fact.) if there’s one thing she’s lying to herself about to her detriment though, it would be her own motivations. (she just cares about the people, really.) and she also occasionally... discounts her own vulnerability in such a way as to actively allow herself to be emotionally manipulated, if that makes sense. woman who thinks as long as she’s going on a power trip she’s genuinely in control of a situation.

DEMONS - If they were in hell and walked into the night club, what song would be playing?

i wasn’t totally sure how to interpret this at first — evil theme song or track playing to torture them. but assuming the latter on the grounds this would be her personal hell designed to punish her, well.

TOMBSTONE - What do they think their legacy would be? What do they think people would etch on their tombstone or say at their funeral?

she would definitely like to be remembered for her contributions to scientific progress, both in the field of chemistry and anthropology. ideally, she would like to make it through the collapse (she doesn’t believe in anything divine, but she does believe current society has reached a point of unsustainability and will soon crumble) and be remembered as someone who helped to restructure society. the chance for one big social (and pharmaceutical, in as much as the bliss is involved) experiment, if you will.

she doesn’t particularly care about being celebrated after her death however. despite the assumptions many make about her, she’s far from egotistical. if anything, she would like for people to talk about her as one of many links in a chain towards progress and greater understanding of the world.

NIGHTMARES - If they had a chariot leading them through their universe’s version of Hell, what animal or creature would be pulling them?

again assuming this is meant to be part of a divine punishment for her crimes on earth, probably some grotesque chimera creature or a hoard of overgrown lab rats. (well excuse her for committing crimes against nature and playing god and devoting herself to a science without ethics and — )

CAULDRON - What is their favourite comfort food?

it would be difficult for her to pick just one, food is something of a side passion and she particularly loves playing around with different dessert recipes. if she had a reliable go to though, it would be meringues. a classic, pure sugary morsel perfect for when she needs a quick bite of something sweet as a pick me up, and she loves getting to play with different flavor variations on the classic. (perhaps most notably the huckleberry meringues she whipped up with shortly after moving to montana. if she’d been in charge of the dish for the rye barbecue things would’ve never gone south, that’s all i’m saying.)

POTION - If they had to bottle any ingredients to create their own essence what would the ingredients be? What would the bottle look like?

tea tree oil, mint extract, grenadine, dried and crushed rose petals, and mercury (in case you thought you were going to be funny and drink it or something). bottled in a test tube, naturally.

#oc: deputy jestiny ellen #oc: jenna swann

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