Science · by Mango River · 2026-09-19

My 8-month experiment with chemistry on a budget

> Tiny progress is still progress.

That line sounds cheesy, but it got me through the part where biology stopped feeling new.

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Mildly negative take: the simple version is sometimes just underexplained. The beautiful part is easy to underestimate.

Can you expand on that a bit?

Helpful and not preachy, which is rare. That is the kind of detail beginners miss. The scale of it still melts my brain a little.