Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

"But some tragedies really are catastrophically destructive. The fire at the National Museum of Brazil in 2018 destroyed mountains of unique recordings of indigenous languages, irreplaceable archives of extinct languages, and physical artefacts. When a copy of a book gets burned, it can always be replaced if people care. But much of what was lost that day was lost for good. The fire of Rio de Janeiro was far more destructive than the incidents at Baghdad or Alexandria."

http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2022/11/alexandria.html?ref=the-browser

'The discussion swirling around immunity debt shows how easy it is for a plausible-sounding theory to circulate as misinformation. In this case, misinformation risks promoting the unfounded assertion that infections are clinically beneficial to children, as well as feeding the revisionist narrative that Covid measures did more harm than good.'

cc @BLMG

#Immunology #Virology #COVID19

https://www.ft.com/content/0640004d-cc15-481e-90ce-572328305798

'Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) remains one of the deadliest major cancers, contrasting a relatively low incidence rate1. The primary reasons for this are related to the difficulty with early detection and a lack of effective therapeutic options. A principal barrier to treatment of pancreatic cancer is the densely fibrotic tumor microenvironment, the high interstitial pressure of which acts to collapse blood vessels and impair the delivery of chemotherapy. This lack of functional vasculature leads to deregulated nutrient availability within the tumor, causing cancer cells to develop numerous metabolic adaptations to allow for proliferation under hypoxic and austere conditions'

#PDAC #CancerMetabolism

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-022-00463-1

While carbonidiots of PS & PSD fervently debate new airport locations, I can't get to Madrid by train from Lisbon.

Let's hope this is for real

"Todo ello ocurre, sin embargo, en un momento en el que las líneas ferroviarias entre Madrid y Lisboa siguen atascadas: no existe un tren directo desde que se suspendió hace tres años, algo que solo había ocurrido durante la guerra."

https://elpais.com/opinion/2022-11-23/la-distancia-de-portugal.html

40 years of Love & Rockets

"There were Chicana punk rockers and Southern California skinheads; entire panels of untranslated Spanish; horn-headed gajillionaires and female ex-gang members; and a dialogue-free, noirish fever dream about writer’s block. There were dozens of characters who looked a lot like the people the brothers grew up around, eating, sleeping, laughing, partying, and grousing about work. Much of “Rockets” was set in Huerta, nicknamed Hoppers, a majority Latino town not unlike Oxnard."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/books/love-and-rockets-hernandez-bros.html

Groundhog Day UK

"Six and a half years after voting to leave the European Union, three years after the formal departure, two years after signing a post-Brexit trade deal with Brussels and one month after installing its fourth prime minister since the 2016 referendum, Britain is caught in — what else? — another debate over Brexit."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/world/europe/uk-brexit-regret.html