Trust your training

It was ruined for me when I was getting my masters in genetics and learned that "mitochondria" is plural, and the singular is "mitochondrion." So, it's either "the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell" or "the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell," and neither feel right.
- I feel like the leading "the" is what's messing that up.
  "Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell" sounds fine to me.
  
  *powerhouses might be better(it sounds better for me)
- I refer to one piece of broccoli as a ~~broccolus~~ broccolo.
  
  Except its Italian, not Latin, so the singular is broccolo . If you want to use the Latin word,.it's broccus
  
  I have one die which gives one datum at a time.
- Why have you done this to us?!
  
  A grammatical error in a translation from a foreign galactic basic to English is what ruined the force for you? Lol. If we can believe in defying gravity, I think we can believe "The iceburgs is the ship's fear."
- I constantly struggle with what's proper and what sounds right when using Latin plural in English.

It's mental how this is pretty much known worldwide, like drawing that S thing. The one similar to the Suzuki logo
- As a non-native English speaker, I still have no idea why this specific phrase is so significant and at this point I'm afraid to ask.
  
  I was born in the 1970's and it is lost on me too, I think its something that became a thing to the generation after me
  
  I think it comes from an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and exploded as a meme.
  
  I think it's just the most simplified you can get talking about cellular biology, specifically when teaching organelles. So most primary science textbooks use that terminology and it's more memorable than all the other organelles so it just stuck and it got repeated and reviewed every year and it sorta became a pre Internet meme and part of a shared consciousness if you were schooled in the US.
  
  6th grade biology class in the United States, 2001 AD.
  The teacher slaps up a diagram of a cell and organelles.
  30-45 children all looking around the room, not exactly paying attention
  She points to the various organelles, trying to explain their purpose, the golgi complex, ribosomes..
  "And the mitochondria"
  "Is the power house of the cell"
  Children cheer in applause and repeat it, because it rhymes.
  It then enters the collective unconscious of English speakers.
  I was in the room where it happened.
  
  We actually had the same sentence as the headline for the chapter about mitochondria in our class in the late 90s, just translated. "Mitochondrien - das Kraftwerk der Zelle"
- The S was known worldwide pre internet though. Was the powerhouse line?
  
  They are both universal knowledge passed down through generations
- The Universal S

Can we take a step back and just appreciate how good Bluey is?
Challenging but accessible
Inclusive
Emotional depth
Grounded
Not disgusting annoying
I really appreciate when kids shows are made with parents/guardians in mind (ie will watching the same episode 50 times make you want to off yourself or not)
- It's really amazing. The only (not really) downside is that certain episodes make me tear up.
  
  I haven't actually been able to watch the special episode properly because my wife and daughters are too busy crying. I do love how stripe is kicked out of the bushes by Wendy
  
  You will also have to enslessly play the games they're playing.
- It is really nice to have a children’s TV show that doesn’t scream the title and characters’ names at us over and over, mainly to make sure we remember to buy merchandise
- Take another moment to realize how shit Paw Patrol is.
  Not challenging, has clear cut good/bad dynamic. Bluey doesn't have "bad guys"
  PP is fairly inclusive.
  Almost not emotional depth, everyone is always in a good mood.
  Started off fairly grounded, but then power scaling for no reason.
  Repetitive and boring.
  What the fuck is up with dogs being intelligent enough to do the PP things, but also being subservient to humans? The whole dynamic is so fucked, Bluey doesn't have humans at all.
  I only compare them because the are both dog based kids shows. But PP sucks
  
  I almost added "Not ADHD bait" as a positive for Bluey and calling out Paw Patrol specifically but wanted to be more positive lmao
  Truely a turd of a show.
- Such a great show. That Sleepytime episode always ruins me though. About how kids need their parents less and less as time goes on and they become more independent, fuuuuck.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwLccJOMTX0

What's interesting to me about that phrase is that no one uses the word "powerhouse" for anything else any more, except maybe to call something powerful.
Since it's not the 1920s any more and we have an electrical grid and centralized power generation. We still sometimes do use temporary off-grid generators, but we no longer have any need for a dedicated word that means "building or shed that we keep our generators in".
- Power plant🌱
  
  Yes, that's the word that everyone uses for the large generating stations that create power on a large scale like a manufacturing plant creates goods on a large scale.
  Its rare for us to have "power houses" now, and when we do no one calls them that.
- The power generating stations near me are still called Power houses.
- https://youtu.be/0N2IiV6VMqU

Lmao I was watching an episode of ST: Voyager the other day and a little girl learning about mitochondria said they were the "warp core of the cell". That phrase is ridiculously pervasive
- I don't know. Wouldn't that mean cells could violently explode and cause a chain reaction if nearby cells exploding as well?

What's with americans and mitochondria ?
- Grew up in Asia. Only moved to the US for undergrad... And this applies. So it's not just the Americans methinks.
  
  That's interesting
  We don't have that where I live, sure we had to learn the organelles of a cell, but there was no über-focusing on the mitochondria.
  (Btw I didn't know about "methinks". Learned a new word, thanks !)
- It's been so ubiquitous for so long that I honestly don't know where it came from. But most of the time when I hear "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" it's being used to take a jab at how impractical our education system is, as though to say, "instead of teaching me about X, they taught me about the mitochondria"
  
  Mitochondria are cool and important.
- The phrase "Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" was coined in a 1957 article by biologist Philip Siekevitz. It apparently rattled around in the English lexicon until 2013, when a tumblr user by the handle apatheticghost posted the following:
  what I learned in school
  I am a fucking piece of shit
  everybody else is also a piece of shit
  mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
  This blew up in popularity and variations emerged that replaced the first two items with various social commentary, but always kept the mitochondria line. It stood for a kind of universal frustration students have with school, that a lot of the curriculum feels like memorizing game show trivia answers rather than useful or practical skills applicable to adult life. Loads of us have no idea how the tax system works but we can all parrot biology factoids.
  The phrase became one of those catchphrase in-jokes. A bit like how you can't say 69 without saying "nice" anymore.
  My on personal Mandela Effect: I'd swear I'm from the parallel universe where the phrase comes from the Bill Nye The Science Guy theme song, but apparently I'm thinking of "Inertia is a property of matter."
  
  Thanks for the detailed answer !
- Our politicians of a Sithian persuasion want to use Force Lightning on their enemies and subjects. Sadly(?), mitochondria are not quite the same as midi-chlorians.

P O W E R H O U S E
- She's mighty-mighty, just lettin' it all hang out
- T H R I L L H O
  
  M I L P O O L

Inertia is a property of matter

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins

Mitosis is….
- Damn, I haven't thought about that 90's Sabrina show since, well.. the 90's!

Its so ubiquitous that LLMs will always say it like that when it comes up.

Why does everyone know this, but still think the definition of "metabolism" is solely built towards fake weight loss regiments? Bit of a tangent.

Same here in Germany - immediately came to my mind!

I learned about mitochondria from Parasite Eve. Damn I wish they'd remake that.
- came here to say this. hopefully they don't become sentient and destroy the island of manhattan... or maybe it's not a bad idea afterall
  
  I came here to say the same as well! Every time I see the word mitochondria I immediately return to fighting that T-Rex and those awesome green weapon range domes. What an excellent game.

the mitochondria is the energy center of the cell

There's this book. Sequel to Wrinkle in Time i think. Where this kid brings up the subject of mitochondria in class. Gets pummeled for it.
- This has got to be the funniest summary of A Wind in the Door

The oft repeated line is grammatically incorrect.
- thankfully grammar isnt science
  
  No, but in other examples, incorrect grammar can make a statement scientifically incorrect.

it's at this point a joke seen in non science contexts