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  • As someone who lives in this same town, black bears are more like overweight raccoons.

    Fun fact, our “city hall” is at the tiny community airport, which also had a restaurant with the best chicken wings in town (salt and vinegar wings FTW). The restaurant was still going when this happened in 2019, so my guess is the bear smelled the food and went looking for the kitchen, only to get sidetracked by the city council meeting.



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    2 months ago

    It’s more like a mutual friend. There’s a connection to both reactants (aka “binding affinity”), but not as strong as the bond that is formed between the two substrates (if the reaction is forming a covalent bond between the two substrates, anyway)

    Edit: I’m actually saving this meme to show my coworkers that teach biochem, because it’s a pretty decent analogy. You can even extend it to other reaction classes, like a phosphorylase being like a friend who connects your buddy who is selling a guitar with your other buddy who wants to buy a guitar, or a isomerase being that friend who gives you a make-over so that another friend can set you up on a date.


  • As a college chem professor, the reason for this is nearly always cheating.

    “Hmm, you got the right answer with the wrong method, and your friend that you sit next to every day used the right method and got the same exact answer as you, down to the rounding? Haha, what are the odds??!?”

    Zero. The odds are zero (within sig figs).