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TIL that Australian scientists accidentally developed pain-free blood sugar testing for diabetics while working on solar cells. (www.reuters.com)

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[–] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Try to remember that next time you're afraid to try something new because you think you'll be bad at it and screw it up.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The other lesson here is that having a broad base of knowledge is useful so that you can recognize when something might be applicable to a different problem domain. Universities require all those liberal arts classes to get a degree -- even a STEM degree -- for good reason.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Liberal arts for STEM degrees? Where?

[–] bomibantai@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Dartmouth College, the ivy League one, requires engineering degrees to be done in 5 years and as a liberal arts college there's a good chunk of the prereqs being humanities

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