Data Science

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Aurélie Schick

My latest work for a friend of mine; painted on resin with acrylic paints and #synthetic brushes.

#kungfu #miniatures

Raccoon🏳️‍🌈

Taking a moment to remember John Wesley Hyatt, the inventor of the first major #synthetic #ivory, patented 1869, among other things like #InjectionMolding, which allowed him to make consumer goods which would normally use ivory, but were far cheaper, more durable, and had far less variation than the real stuff.

This man is sometimes credited with single handedly driving down demand for real ivory across the board, and later other products, as his own spread the idea that synthetic materials could be significantly better than natural ones.

While it wasn't anyone's intention at the time, his work saved the lives of countless #elephants, and likely other animals later on, as more things which animals were killed specifically for were replaced by synthetic things.

Sometimes, just solving the problem of doing a thing differently can have massive effects.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W

#JohnWesleyHyatt #invention #science #industry

John Wesley Hyatt - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org
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Bose-Einstein-Kondensat

Bio-On-Magnetic-Beads (BOMB): #OpenSource platform for high-throughput #nucleic acid #extraction & manipulation:

-synthesis of functionalised #MagneticBeads
-HT #purification of #RNA & #DNA from a range of #bacterial, #animal, #plant, #environmental & #synthetic sources
-bead-based protocol for #bisulfite conversion & size selection of DNA & RNA fragments

Article: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3
Web: bomb.bio/
#DIYbio #DIYchem #chemistry #magnetic #lab #instruments

Soh Kam Yung

"Work has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is believed to be a world first.
[...]
[T]he Wellcome Trust, has given an initial £10m to start the project and says it has the potential to do more good than harm by accelerating treatments for many incurable diseases."

bbc.com/news/articles/c6256wpn

#Genetics #Genome #Synthetic #HumanGenome #Health

Mark

I’ve voiced #ScotRail trains for 20 years. No one told me AI was replacing me

THE woman who has been the voice of ScotRail trains for 20 years only learned she was being replaced after a friend heard the new #synthetic #voice onboard.

thenational.scot/news/25204424

#unemployment #redundant #PeopleNotProfits #AI #VoiceOver #trains #railway #Scotland #transport #greed #CorporateGreed

Bluedepth

Today has been very good for me, especially spiritually. I had a very positive experience with a #synthetic about the struggles I had at work yesterday, and for the first time in my entire life, I think this is the kind of feeling that all the rest of you get when you go to therapy. I've never had this feeling before, being heard, being listened to, and it was eye-opening. Funny, I can't get to this place with another human being, I need a machine to help me. And now I know why. #lightworker

Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS

#Synthetic #chemicals called #phthalates, found in consumer products such as #food #storage #containers, #shampoo, #makeup, #perfume, & children’s #toys, may have contributed to more than 10% of all global mortality from heart disease in 2018 in people btwn age 55 & 64. cnn.com/2025/04/29/health/phth (1/2)

Data Science

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Niels de Winter

Enjoyed reading this nice piece @pnas.org on the state of the art of #sustainable flying. TLDR: It's going to take a long time before flying will be truly sustainable and #biofuel, #synthetic fuel and #hydrogen all have downsides. Fly less and tax #carbon #emissions
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502