• Hellfire103@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    My friend came up with almost the exact same thing during high school. The only difference is that the DK stood for “Donkey Kong”.

    Can’t say it wasn’t memorable!

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 days ago

    Anybody got a sexy mnemonic that includes subphylum, subclass, superorder, suborder, etc? Or, more to the point, what taxonomic system gets us to the orgy the fastest?

  • blazeknave@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Literally taught my son about Prince Philip a few hours ago. And learned domains is a thing now. Wish I could show him this for the serendipity but def no lol

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    See my stupid ass would remember the fun phrase but not the related factual word. So I’d just have phrases with no inkling what the original info was.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    Taxonomy is much more complicated than I remember from high school. For one thing I thought the top level was Kingdom, consisting of Animal and Plant. There’s like 50x more to it. And I actually liked school and mostly paid attention. WTF?

    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      When I learned about taxonomy in the 90’s they hadn’t really sequenced many genomes, so taxonomy was still very much phenotype driven, rather than the modern genetic/molecular approaches. I just assumed that everything I learned has become out of date.

    • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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      Depends on the mnemonic. It has to flow and you have to know the steps individually. Although there was one time I spent so long trying to come up with a good mnemonic for the citric acid cycle that I just learned it and gave up.

    • SpoopyKing@lemmy.sdf.org
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      11 days ago

      I learned Kids Playing Catch On Freeways Get Splattered about 20 years ago and I still remember, despite never needing to use it. So, the mnemonic helps to remember, but remembering doesn’t really help me

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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        11 days ago

        It helps you understand the world you live in and be a well rounded individual instead of cog whose only purpose is to know the things they need to make their owner more money and nothing else.

      • psud@aussie.zone
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        9 days ago

        PEMDAS for order of operations, we had BEDMAS which seemed memorable on it’s own, since we called these ‘()’ brackets and multiplication and division are equal so can be either way

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
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      11 days ago

      My 9th grade Spanish teacher taught us how to remember how to say who/what/when/where/why in Spanish by putting it to the tune of Jingle Bells. To this day that’s the only thing I remember from Spanish class, so yes I can confidently confirm that they work:

      🎵 Por qué, why,
      Quando, when,
      Qué, what; donde, where.
      Cuantos, how much; cómo, how,
      Quien está, who is there?
      Cuál! 🎵

      🎵 Por qué, why,
      Quando, when,
      Qué, what; donde, where.
      Cuantos, how much; cómo, how,
      Quien está, who is there?
      Which! 🎵

    • meyotch@slrpnk.net
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      11 days ago

      Unequivocally yes.

      I got a contest going with my plant systematics cohort (8 credit hours over an academic year, that’s a lot of plant id work). We would see who could come up with the filthiest mnemonics to remember plant families and such.

      Our professor, a brilliant botanist with a filthy mind and tenure, was delighted beyond measure at how well the entire cohort did on the practical plant ID exams. But mostly he enjoyed watching our classroom discussions.

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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      I literally couldn’t tell you a single biology fact from my year studying it in HS but I remember King Phillip Came Over From Germany Stoned.

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    There’s a particularly horrible one people used to use to remember resistor color codes-

    “Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly.”

    Black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white

    • Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com
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      10 days ago

      For those who enjoy a little racism with their misogyny, there’s a way to disambiguate one of the B colors.

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        The racist term I was taught when I was a young person

        (Color of darkness) (fatherless children) (coerced non-consensual reproduction activities) our (new people to the world) (XX people) but (pure people) go without.

        I hate reading resistor color codes because which is the correct orientation for the resistor. Band gaps and positions on real world resistors don’t stand out as much as what the theoretical charts show - so I always meter them anyway.

    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Black, brown, then the fucking colors of the rainbow in order, gray, white.

      If you need a mnemonic to memorize that, you’re gonna have some trouble actually building out your lookup table in your head of immediately knowing that red=2, yellow=4, etc.

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        I’ve never clocked on that the colors are in the order of the rainbow. Mind blown that it’s taken your comment to highlight this for me.

        I also like that the colors surrounding are shades of lightness… cough cough let’s ignore the brown.

    • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
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      Having worked with a bunch of Boomer and older Gen X EEs, it is a fucking misogynistic boys club of white ass old men with undiagnosed autism. I have never heard so many racist and sexist jokes in the workplace (except when I worked in VC, and those guys were JUST sexist).

      So this surprises me not at all (in fact, I think I’ve heard it before, but as “Black Boys * * *”).

      • foo@feddit.uk
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        It’s actually worse still. When I first heard it, the second B wasn’t “boys”. I’m Gen X and it was disgusting to hear even back then. Please don’t lump us in with the boomers. A lot changed in a few short years.

        • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          GenX here, my father was a racist and ran with a similar racist crowd, and i was disgusted pretty soon after i started to comprehend the shit they spew.

          That crap they said sometimes still comes into my mind when seeing non-whites (i heard that stuff a lot, as my father descended into his alcoholism over 2 decades), and then i firmly disagree with those thoughts and feel icky. Racism (and i believe it’s the same for sexism) is an active choice, even when growing up in a racist environment.

    • HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 days ago

      To add to this, my dad told me that “Get Some Now” was sometimes tacked on to indicate tolerance levels. Gold (5%), Silver (10%), Nothing (0%).

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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    due to the ‘Dont Say Gay’ bill my biology teacher said it was “great sex” instead of “gay sex”.

    literally 1984

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    I don’t understand why you’d ever need to know this. What is a phylum anyway? Which animals share a phylum? Are bonobos and chimpanzees in a phylum, a family, a class? And what does that tell us about their relation that we couldn’t already tell from their characteristics?