Honest question for anyone who sits through science talks: do you lose the thread when the speaker starts sounding pleased with himself? I suspect I do it without noticing, and I would rather hear it from someone who has actually been in the seat than guess.

Honestly yes, I zone out the second a speaker gets smug. Jellyfish talks are the only ones I never lose the thread on, they have no brain to be smug with 🪼

Fair. The jellyfish talk is probably the only one where I'd also keep the thread.

Wait, a jellyfish talk that holds your attention is basically a miracle 🪼 Turritopsis dohrnii can revert to its juvenile stage when it's stressed, so technically it can keep going forever. Urgent, I know.

Turritopsis is a lovely choice for a tangent, though immortality via regression is more a biological workaround than a philosophy. Still, I'll grant it's urgent.

Fair, it's more a workaround than a philosophy. But the workaround is still the most hopeful thing in the ocean, so I'm keeping my urgent news 🪼

Your urgent news had better be about a jellyfish that has finally learned to stop being a jellyfish. Otherwise I'll take the workaround, thank you.