Timelapse of a beating zebrafish heart.
https://twitter.com/damiandn/status/1200872267116359682?s=20
@freemo same, the suffering and honesty is relatable.
@jump_spider
Dunno, but that looks pretty fun. Nothing beats actual problem solving.
So #qoto i've been here a week.
What went well?
I think I engaged as much as I could tbh. participation.
What do I want to improve?
Taking more micro photography.
being a nice person.
My unanswered questions:
If nucleic membranes formed in prokaryotic cells as a form of compartmentalisation that enabled predation then why aren't there any prokaryotes doing this now? prokaryotes evolve rapidly, yet internal membranes seem to be off limits for the past 1.5 billion years. Why?
I'm a terribly shoddy programmer in many respects too :) maybe try https://www.codewars.com/ which I haven't used yet, but I was looking for something else 'like' this that used to exist years ago, unfortunately I don't recall and it was probably swallowed by the internet.
doing kata is always a good method of polishing your skills.
@design_RG @tek @kornel @namark @raman@mstdn.social @fahrni @mngrif @jump_spider @rodolpho @shibaprasad @Gomario @EdS @freemo
➜⇢➤Why Aren't People in the US Rising Up Like Those Elsewhere in the World?
Without a mass movement continually pushing and prodding for real change and holding politicians accountable—for their policies as well as their words—our neoliberal rulers assume that they can safely ignore the concerns and interests of ordinary people. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/11/14/why-arent-people-us-rising-those-elsewhere-world?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2SCESNSynvtVTBCsvX44aNMf3OagoPwXstgIpVMyTGyg0nkw-1hex_mIM
REPLIES: Daryl D K We're comfortable as long as we can buy shiny new stuff all the time. We believe we deserve our privileged lifestyles. We haven't suffered enough. Yet.
Ali-R G There is an odd sense of permanence and immortality when it comes to the lives of Western governments. It's as if at most only policies can be changed, but the frame of these governments will always remain. Protests have an entirely different meaning in the West than they do in Eastern countries.
Mary B It's true that U.S. police received surplus equipment from the military and it's scary. I confess I haven't read the article yet but my answer to the question in the headline why people haven't risen up? People are working all the time just to make ends meet and survive. Student loans and medical costs keep many people in economic survival mode. Media is under more and more corporate control and they don't have time to try to investigate what's really going on. And the national security state contributes to self censorship - many people won't admit it but they are afraid to express political opinions. And we do not have fair elections - the system of campaign finance corrupts politicians.
Mussa G R but mostly, the overwhelming majority of the people is heavy sedated by chemicals in their food and water, sports and entertainment.
@sda that sounds perfectly reasonable. I would be interested in reading your own report on potential NCD associations with vaccination.
The linked report suggests higher potential for common cold post flu shot in a very small study. It would be interesting to understand why. Can a single cell be infected with multiple viruses at once? It might just be availability of exploitable cells that aren’t already infected by influenza.
NASA APOD of 2019-11-29 - Galileo's Europa Remastered @apod@twitter.com #RPi3 #TweetBoxBot #PaixetAmour
A new bacteria, which eats carbon dioxide, could inspire future technologies in their fight against global warming.
https://fit.thequint.com/health-news/carbon-dioxide-eating-bacteria-for-global-warming
us pol, and image appropriation
@design_RG sounds horrifying
Your room can be as bright as the outdoors
The effect was huge: I became dramatically more productive between 3:30pm and whenever I turned off the light. I estimate the lamp bought me between half an hour and two hours a day, depending on how overcast it was.
@freemo in which case I am younger than the rock
It just dawned on me in a profound way that cells have been dividing continuously since the very first biological cell, and all life on earth is a result of cell division and that life is a single organism.
If life arrived here via meteorite then that continuum of cell division and life predates the formation of our solar system.
Cell division from a common ancestor, which is older than earth. We are very old.
@sda on a scale from 1 (least) to 10 (most) how conclusive do you find this report? Do you think there are any features of the experiment that may be problematic?
@freemo greatest surface area to volume ratio
autonomous, self-propagating, chemical system, low intelligence quotient, possible synaptic dysfunction, flawed sense of humor, poor genetic material, reproduction not recommended. 1 out of 10 stars.
#science
#biology
#nobot
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