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Spider-Gwen Vol. 5: Gwenom | Jason Latour

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I'm gradually making my way through Spider Gwen. In this particular arc, Gwen is exposed to the Venom symbiote for reasons that don't totally make sense. The final couple of issues set up the confrontation with Matt Murdock that Latour has been building toward. Latour depicts Gwen as kind of erratic, which I find odd.

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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry | Christie Wilcox

Sweet, sweet Rachel!! Thank you for the wonderful and thoughtful holiday gifts!!! I‘m OBSESSED with the lucky cat (I hope it brings good fortune in 2022)! I‘m really excited to read these books 📚 You‘ll get to enjoy all the silky Japanese stationary when I send letters. And that Lego keychain! 💜 I forgot to include the beautiful pouch in the pic, but that‘s where I‘ll keep the stationary and stickers that‘s just for you! You‘re the best! #BFF

iread2much

Megabooks Venomous is fantastic! Great gift. 2y

iread2much I‘m so glad you liked everything 😊 2y

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Megabooks

Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry | Christie Wilcox

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This pop sci book that blends biology and a bit of pharmacology is right up my alley. Wilcox discusses venoms - from the exsanguinating to the hallucinatory. (Yes, there are venom dens where people get high on snake bites, duh! 😬🤷🏻‍♀️) She looks a venoms in sea creatures, insects, mammals, and reptiles. And, most exciting, the future of venom science where individual proteins can be isolated for use in pharmaceuticals. ⬇️ #audiobook #reread

Cinfhen

Megabooks If you‘re in the US, you‘ve probably seen the ubiquitous ads for Trulicity. That class of drugs was developed from proteins in Gila Monster venom. (Non-US peeps, it‘s a drug for type 2 diabetes that is used instead of insulin.) (edited) 3y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Sto you're telling me I'm living with a guy who is now 1/4268 Gila Monster. Cool cool cool. 🤣 3y

Megabooks @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick no, I‘m telling you he may spontaneously develop venom one day. J/k, j/k!! The story is cool though. They found a protein that temporarily made insulin only when blood sugar was high and were able to develop it into a protein that amplified long-term control. Really cutting edge stuff!! 3y

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Cinfhen Wow!!! That is craycray 😃 3y

Megabooks @Cinfhen right?? Science is cool! 3y

Crazeedi @Megabooks I love technology and what nature can give us! So very cool, stacking! 3y

Megabooks @Crazeedi it is a very cool book! Nature is truly fascinating! 3y

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Ddzmini

Venom: The Savage Six | Rick Remender

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Megabooks

Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry | Christie Wilcox

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 6 #audiobookcovers

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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry | Christie Wilcox

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Good morning from KY! Sunrise from the small courtyard facing south.

Just finished up this #audiobook while I was watching the sunrise. It‘s so hard to explain all the myriad of species and situations (from blue-ringed octopus to popular diabetes meds from lizard venom) included! The author did a very comprehensive job in a short space. Highly #recommend. 4.5⭐️

#bfc #bfcr3 book 3/28 #audible #goteam

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Emilymdxn You‘re doing amazingly! Incredible progress and cool book 5y

Megabooks @Emilymdxn Thank you! 😁 Very Cool book. 👍🏻🎧 5y

guinsgirlreads Great start! 5y

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Megabooks @guinsgirlreads Thanks! 5y

cobwebmoth Hooray for finishing another book! The tree in your picture is beautiful! 5y

Megabooks @cobwebmoth Thank you! I love that tree. 💜 5y

bromeliad Awesome pace!! 5y

Megabooks @bromeliad Thanks! 😊 5y

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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry | Christie Wilcox

“Parasitologists always have the best stories.”

As a veterinarian, that is so the truth! Definitely one of my favorite classes.

The above pictures are from a site selling “realistic 3D renderings.” 🤣

emilyhaldi Fascinating, but also 🤢🤢 5y

Megabooks @emilyhaldi You have to be a... special kind of person love parasites. But as a vet, even a private practice one, you have to have some interest! 5y

mom2bugnbee @megabooks Parasites were the only thing that truly made me queasy in practice - maggots in the leg of an abandoned dog. I could handle basically anything else, & parasites in the feces never bothered me, but that, sure did. 5y

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Megabooks @mom2bugnbee Parasites never really bothered me. But this one guy I went to school with had ocular larval migrans that permanently damaged his vision. That made me really respectful of them. 5y

scowler1 🤢 5y

Megabooks @scowler1 sorry 😬 5y

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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry | Christie Wilcox

I picked this up solely based on @suzisteffen ‘s post, and I am loving it!!! Great #audiobook so far! I had been looking for a pop science book.

ShyBookOwl The very first time I stepped in an ocean, I was stung by a jellyfish... within minutes lol this post gave me flashbacks! 😂 5y

Megabooks @ShyBookOwl Yikes!! I‘ve been stung once, but I was 20 and I started going to the beach at 8 month! That must have been scary. 😱 5y

ShyBookOwl @Megabooks it was. It was my honeymoon too! We had just landed in Jamaica lol I didn't go in the ocean again after that 🤷🏽‍♀️ I did go in a lagoon though! 5y

Megabooks @ShyBookOwl Your honeymoon of all times!! I didn‘t go back in the rest of that trip, I think. (It was 19 years ago!) But I have been back since. 5y

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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry | Christie Wilcox

HOLY SHIZZLE, I‘m one chapter in, and I‘m already fascinated as heck. DID YOU KNOW THE MALE PLATYPUS HAD A TON OF VENOM IN HIS ANKLE SPURS???? I did not! I love my #science books. 😍😮(🇦🇺 is very yikes, btw!)

tpixie you may need to check out Amy's stwart's books, one is