• Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    I recall in a high school biology class, a classmate asked whether atoms were alive. The teacher was kind, but perplexed. She went into detail about how cells, which we do consider to be alive, are built out of molecules (not alive), which are built from atoms (not alive), etc. I’m not sure the question asker had ever considered that cells are not the same as atoms 🤔