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“Cloning animals by nuclear transfer provides an opportunity to preserve endangered mammalian species…Here we report production of cloned mice from bodies kept frozen at −20 °C for up to 16 years without any cryoprotection…Thus, nuclear transfer techniques could be used to “resurrect” animals or maintain valuable genomic stocks from tissues frozen for prolonged periods without any cryopreservation.” Full Slice
“…”The importance of self-control and self-regulation for understanding human behavior are well known to social scientists, but the possibility that the links of religiosity to self-control might explain the links of religiosity to health and behavior has not received much explicit attention…religion can motivate people to do just about anything.”" Full Slice
“Infectious pathogens like Salmonella typhimurium employ a startling array of techniques to skillfully outwit the body’s defense mechanisms and produce illness. Through their expression of genes—the fundamental building blocks of cellular physiology—such microbes ingeniously adapt to varied environments, modifying their disease-causing potential or virulence.
Although the study of a broad range of microbial virulence factors is now well advanced, many pieces of the puzzle are still missing…spaceflight experiments have shown that Salmonella gene expression and virulence are profoundly altered by microgravity, with the pathogenic cells undergoing a significant increase in their infectious disease potential….” Full Slice
Just think about what might be found if we choose to actually look more often.
[Note that many are those that claim there are NO valuable rewards from our so called fixation on space flight]
But just how shall we interpret what it is telling us ?
“A noxious cocktail of soot, smog and toxic chemicals is blotting out the sun, fouling the lungs of millions of people and altering weather patterns in large parts of Asia…The byproduct of automobiles, slash-and-burn agriculture, wood-burning stoves and coal-fired power plants, these plumes of carbon dust rise over southern Africa, the Amazon basin and North America. But they are most pronounced in Asia, where so-called atmospheric brown clouds are dramatically reducing sunlight in many Chinese cities and leading to decreased crop yields in swaths of rural India…the scientists who worked on the report said the blanket of haze might be mitigating the worst effects of greenhouse gases, by absorbing solar heat or reflecting it away from the earth…The brownish haze, sometimes more than a mile thick and clearly visible from airplanes, stretches from the Arabian Peninsula to the Yellow Sea. During the spring, it sweeps past North and South Korea and Japan. Sometimes the cloud drifts as far east as California…“We used to think of this brown cloud as a regional problem, but now we realize its impact is much greater…When we see the smog one day and not the next, it just means it’s blown somewhere else.”…” Full Slice
nature’s going by a descending frequency
modulo its playing of unenumerated instruments
shows a propensity towards sequential emanation
beauty selfselects
but the newtonian faeces, ever present
the neural cold
the low level phase change
far, far away, unpredictable, tantalizes, hypnotizes
“…Thus, like nitric oxide, dopamine, and acetylcholine, hydrogen sulfide (H2S) sends chemical signals to the brain that relax nerve cells. (Well, you know you feel better after you let out gas!)
“Now that we know hydrogen sulfide’s role in regulating blood pressure, it may be possible to design drug therapies that enhance its formation as an alternative to the current methods of treatment for hypertension,”…” Full Slice
During the course of a recent e-exchange, I was reminded of the futility of tit-for-tat exchanges vis-a-vis [insert controversial topic here]. First, attempting to understand the other seems to fall by the wayside, followed by a general failure to attempt being understood (no doubt the between-the-lines understanding sort of happens, but that’s not ostensibly what’s being legitimately sought). Ultimately, there are dribbling attempts to get last words in and the sad thing just peters out.
Nevertheless, I was inspired, by the claimed lack of facile touchibility about various forms of reliable information, to ‘ogle
only to locate a third-hand, yet promising, pointer. This finding led to further ‘ogling, quickly turning up
The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change
Which contains a series of chapters of interpretations referring to the primary scientific literature.
I am not content to simply trade unsubstantiated claims in an emotional, posturing context (despite the wanking joy of doing that). I would rather trade substantiated claims and backed-up interepretations in an emotional, posturing context. I would most like to trade substantiated claims and backed-up interepretations in a dispassionate context.
That would require buy-in, and not a little work (i.e. this is an invitation to a journal club, or perhaps “sequential blogging on peer-reviewed research“). Could just be a measure of just how much Baloney Factor people may have.
As I read this article about using Facebook to organize dances, I started to think of the Larry Niven’s flash crowds, and wonder how in the world we will manage unexpectedly large crowds in the future.
This also makes me wonder about the emergent properties of this ability to instantly organize large numbers of people What happens in scenarios such as:
Given 6 billion people on earth, how soon until 100 million swarm? What if you were willing to lose 100 million “soldiers” in a swarm (1 billion -100 million is still a LOT of people).
I’m kinda scaring myself.
of these slumlordian networks might be functional globally thinking; what other networks might the slumlord ones be “fronts” for/point to/support ?
Where DOES all that money flow ?
“A small, not-for-profit, economic justice organization [EJO] used social network analysis [SNA] to assist their city attorney in convicting a group of “slumlords” of various housing violations that they had been side-stepping for years. The housing violations, in multiple buildings, included…Conspiracies often work in this way — masterminds are 2 steps, or more, from the events they planned….” Full Slice
Their other case studies are also informative.
I’m first, I’m first!
The race is won!
I’m sorry sir,
it has not begun.
$1,000,000 is the minimum bid. Please submit bids to rcahn@baloney.com.
Google really is spying on you but “declined to assess the quality”.
Soon “the man” will know where everyone is, all the time. Full Slice
Subsequent note: The man identified via DNA in the “Full Slice” story committed suicide.