Your lab pivots to the main source of income as high risk / high reward heists, black market art deals and such, to fund science as a side hustle. Added bonus, you may get to recruit from the circus, coincidentally becoming more inclusive

Marked safe from…

dying from a cut today (thanks antibiotics!)

Malthusian economics (thanks ammonia!)

rotting teeth (thanks fluoride!)

(all I can think of are examples)

Yes! Also great: where do they go?

Or that bleach is also helpful, they say

I studied the parameters of a chemical reaction to attach cancer drugs to the surface of cancer cells but not healthy cells. The first generation I worked on was too slow to be effective, but the study led to developing the next generation of the reaction and it is now being used in clinical trials.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being. It centers how you choose to spend your time and what profound meaning comes from those choices.

Yes that was IT!

When nothing you do matters, the only thing that matters is what you do. Wasn’t that a line from Angel?

Super fun to teach Omelas, college students can come up with some pretty hot takes within an hour discussion, even wilder with some good prompts!