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Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math.
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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~ Genes and proteins
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• Smaug, a protein that inhibits translation of mRNA nanos (Greek for dwarf) in Drosophila embryos. Named after the dragon Smaug from The Hobbit. 42]
• Glorund, a protein that inhibits translation of mRNA nanos in Drosophila ovaries. Named after Glórund, an early name for Glaurung, the first dragon in Tolkien's legendarium. 42]
• Bard, a gene in Drosophila that encodes the protein Bard, which is essential in degrading the protein Smaug. Named after Bard the Bowman, who killed Smaug in The Hobbit. 43]
• Gimli, Gloin and Legolas, retrotransposon elements in the Arabidopsis thaliana plant.
Named after two dwarves and an elf. 44]
• Galadriel, a retrotransposon from Lycopersicon esculentum. Named after the elf. 44]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lldnefftwlslxv2z7kirghih/bafkreigjfqlyknoaps3utrc7e4vhp6brbtgfgda2lun6gmjxs6g36gwcku)
