“...if I really reflect on how I, a Latina from Las Vegas, was able to become a scientist at an elite university, it wasn’t my own curiosity. It was the influence of a blackjack dealer who also happens to be my mother. ”
—Anjelica L. Gonzalez, Ph.D, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Yale
Rainforest offers miracle shroom in attempt to save itself from utter irrevocable destruction
- Industrialized humans: We're going to bulldoze you.
- Rainforest: Please don't.
- Industrialized humans: Lol, sorry, we totally are.
- Rainforest: Srsly? I've got plants that cure cancer.
- Industrialized humans: Meh. You've also got lumber that cures us needing to sell your lumber.
- Rainforest: I've got mushrooms that eat your previously non-biodegradable plastic waste.
- Industrialized humans: No you don't. .... Really?
- Rainforest: http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679201/fungi-discovered-in-the-amazon-will-eat-your-plastic
- Industrialized humans: Well shit.
