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I assume the main professor had eaten some safely before throwing his silphium party for all those historians at the end of the article, but still, I'd have been pretty nervous about digging into a big pot of lentils flavored with some random plant. Lot of really toxic things out there in the world, and just because it smells nice doesn't mean it's not going to shut down your synapses later!

> I don't know the status of this particular species, but I assume that "probably" is not rare. They are short lived perennials that seed and die.

The end of the article mentions that this one is still critically endangered, with 600 known specimens.

Just make them walk through a really big electromagnet and hope that neither has a pacemaker.

I love long bike rides, I do 40 miles most weekends. Then when I occasionally try running, all I can think is how incredibly slow it is. It's all the pain of exercising without the fun of actually going anywhere!

He's also the owner of the all-time worst American accent, in the not very good movie Mindhunters. Here's a clip from the middle of the movie showing it. There are spoilers for the movie in the clip, but you should probably never see it, so spoiling things isn't such a terrible thing.

https://youtu.be/UACodohFhPs

I think we all had some screen names in high school that seem pretty terrible now.

> Synology has offered Amazon Glacier and S3 as a destination option

For the record, QNAP does too, I've got an automated job that backs up any new files it sees every Sunday morning.

History suggests that's not a recipe for long-term success.

We've had purely cosmetic surgery for decades. Is this any different than a boob job or lip implants or hair plugs? It's more painful, sure, and irreversible, but is it morally different because of that?

I mean, good on the authors for publishing in a big 3 journal, but come on, there's literally no cellular biology anywhere in this paper.

The US doesn't have a prime minister at all. The president is head of the cabinet, they get to appoint all the heads of the various departments, and then the senate confirms them. The cabinet heads are usually not even from congress, they're often just random governors and politicians who lost during the primary voting for the last election and whatnot.

Mutations are caused by errors in DNA repair mechanisms. Radioactive particles smash into DNA, breaking the bonds that hold it together. You have a whole system for DNA repair in your cells, but it's not 100% accurate, and so the more times you have to repair things, the more errors you're going to see.

And the reason you'll never see it in random frozen samples from 20 years ago is that your cells have to be alive for it to happen, and those ones aren't.

I use this system [0], which is basically foolproof and is easy as pie. The end results are amazing. Right now I have two jars of blended up hatch chiles (with onion, garlic, carrots, and 4% salt by weight) on the counter, probably two more months to go on them. It's a super fun way to make food.

[0] https://nourishedessentials.com/products/the-easy-fermenter

> American has paid a non-refundable deposit on the initial 20 aircraft.

Pretty glad I don't own American stock right now, because they're apparently led by madmen.

You're all reacting to the wrong part of this. The blood sample part is unimportant, they could have just dug in the garbage and gotten a dirty diaper or whatever. They sent the blood off for DNA typing, which they could have done on any other thing that kid had touched instead. Follow him to McDonalds, collect the straw from his juicebox when it gets thrown away, end result is the same, and no warrant is needed for that either.

I was expecting it to be about the rhinogrades, which Atlus Obscura correctly describes as "Zoology's favorite hoax" [0]. But then, the number of biologists in the world is pretty small, most normal folks won't have a copy of Strumpke's book laying around their house like I do.

[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sciences-greatest-hoax...

Is he the greatest living author to never have won the Nobel? I vote yes.

> but this will not change the outcome.

I mean, if the history of the USA between the years of 2001 and 2021 are any indication, small countries inflicting pain on much larger and better equipped armies is absolutely enough to change an outcome.

Here's some much larger shots, along with explanations of what they show and what each destroyed Russian plane is: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/widespread-destruction...

I can't speak for everybody, but since the light green and the white are so close, I have to rely on shapes for those two instead. And then my dumb brain refuses to accept that squares and diamonds are different, lol. Maybe we could get either triangles or circles as one of those colors? Otherwise it's totally color-friendly!

This used to be a feature!

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-m...

It's not like "wasibutt123" was very secure to start with.

Facebook served me an ad a couple of months back urging me to apply for a job at the hospital I've worked for since 2015, WHILE I WAS ACCESSING FACEBOOK FROM MY WORK VPN. I have it listed as my workplace and I was coming from a IP addy owned by it and still the computer thought it should show me the ad. I just don't get it.

This article lead me down a wiki wormhole where I eventually came across this HG Wells story about a guy who's marooned on a deserted island with an elephant bird:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Stolen_Bacillus_and_Other...

> When I’m trying out lots of different equations, keystokes matter a lot.

That's a pretty weird way to do math, honestly. Shouldn't you figure out what equation you need and then just type it? If you're off by one or whatever, adjust it then, you're still only typing it twice.

Speaking here as a guy who started his career in organismal bio and is now working at the cellular level, all I can say to that is [citation needed].

> There's a huge gap between the fundamental units of biology (biochemistry) and the resulting emergent behaviour (living things).

And then a very similar gap between the fundamental units of one small branch of biology, ecology, where the fundamental units are living things and the emergent behavior is everything you see outside your window! We have a lot of math that explains how things act and evolve together and it's all just the tiniest little smidge of what actually happens.

It's definitely NOT human. For the first day or two, all cellular processes (basic cell metabolism, protein synthesis, that sort of thing) are controlled by extranuclear DNA that comes only from the egg. So instead of having a chromosome number of 2N=46 like all the somatic cells in your body, the embryo is functionally haploid.

While that's going on in the cytoplasm, the nucleus is a real mess. Sometimes it's 1N, sometimes 2N, sometimes even 4N! If we accept that humans are a species because of our DNA, then there's just no way you could ever call that embryo human in the first 36ish hours post-fertilization. I don't know quite what you'd call it, but it's definitely not that.

Sure, blame the biologists instead of the religious goofballs who think that something becomes human at the instant of gametic fusion.

I was a year-round bike commuter for five years in Minneapolis, and I had a strict rule that I wouldn't climb on the bike if it was colder than -15F. At that temp, even with all the cold weather gear I had, it's still just really darn cold.