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    Teal Jay doesn’t roll of the tongue
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    Frontiers Planet Prize, Fourth edition: Call for peer reviewers https://council.science/news/frontiers-planet-prize-fourth-edition-call-for-peer-reviewers/?utm%5C_source=rss&utm%5C_medium=rss&utm%5C_campaign=frontiers-planet-prize-fourth-edition-call-for-peer-reviewers
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    Frontiers Planet Prize, Fourth edition: Applications open https://council.science/news/frontiers-planet-prize-fourth-edition-applications/?utm%5C_source=rss&utm%5C_medium=rss&utm%5C_campaign=frontiers-planet-prize-fourth-edition-applications
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    cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9273769 Check it out. @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml Also, first video in a while that involves Russia or Russians that doesn’t lambast them or have a “BUT” at the end of it regarding the Kremlin or Russian government.
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    A groundbreaking University of Chicago study published in April 2023 revealed unexpected similarities between photosynthesis and quantum physics[^9]. The research team discovered that excitons - paired electrons and holes that carry energy in leaves during photosynthesis - can form patterns similar to those seen in Bose-Einstein condensates, a quantum state previously only observed at extremely cold temperatures[^9]. “As far as we know, these areas have never been connected before, so we found this very compelling and exciting,” said study co-author Professor David Mazziotti[^9]. The study, published in PRX Energy, found that these exciton patterns can form “islands” of condensate-like behavior even at room temperature in disordered plant systems, potentially doubling energy transfer efficiency[^9]. This contrasts with traditional exciton condensates that require near-absolute zero temperatures and highly ordered materials[^9][^15]. The findings open new possibilities for developing synthetic materials that could harness this effect. As Mazziotti noted, “A perfect ideal exciton condensate is sensitive and requires a lot of special conditions, but for realistic applications, it’s exciting to see something that boosts efficiency but can happen in ambient conditions”[^9]. [^9]: UChicago News - Scientists find link between photosynthesis and ‘fifth state of matter’ [^15]: CBS News - New University of Chicago study discovers similarities between photosynthesis, supercooling of atoms
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    A new study by Columbia University researchers found that soccer heading causes damage to the brain’s orbitofrontal region where gray and white matter meet, leading to reduced verbal learning ability[^1]. The research examined 352 adult amateur soccer players in New York City, using advanced diffusion MRI techniques to analyze the gray-white matter interface. Players who performed frequent headers (over 1,000 per year) showed blurring of the normally sharp boundary between gray and white matter in the orbitofrontal region[^2]. Key findings: Greater heading exposure directly correlated with less distinct gray-white matter boundaries Changes in brain structure mediated poorer performance on verbal learning tests Damage concentrated in outer brain layers rather than deep white matter Effects most pronounced in players doing over 1,000 headers annually “What’s important about our studies is that they show, really for the first time, that exposure to repeated head impacts causes specific changes in the brain that, in turn, impair cognitive function,” said study leader Michael Lipton[^3]. The research team plans to investigate potential links between these brain changes and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), while also studying whether cardiovascular exercise might help protect against heading-related brain damage[^3]. [^1]: JAMA Network - Orbitofrontal Gray-White Interface Injury and the Association of Soccer Heading With Verbal Learning [^2]: Columbia University - Soccer Heading Does Most Damage to Brain Area Critical for Cognition [^3]: Columbia Radiology - Soccer Heading Linked to Measurable Decline of Brain Structure and Function https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68THmzSxJqI
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    Too bad they didn’t have the scientific-integrity to test whether anti-Palestinian-prejudice ALSO predicted support for political-violence. Perhaps a month ago, I saw in a single week, 2 articles: 1 was by an Israeli Jew, who surveyed Palestinians, & discovered that 45% ( -/+ 2 or 3 %, it was the similarity that struck me, not the individual-numbers ) of them wanted the extermination of Israeli Jews… But, of course, he wouldn’t dare to question what percentage of Israeli Jews wanted the extermination of Palestinians, would he? The other was by a Palestinian, who surveyed Israeli Jews, & discovered that 45% ( -/+ 2 or 3 %, as mentioned above ) of them wanted the extermination of Palestinians… But, of course, he wouldn’t dare to question what percentage of Palestinians wanted the extermination of Israeli Jews, would he? Pretending that prejudice is “only 1 way” is a gaslighting common to prejudice-pushers/ideologues. Scientific integrity breaks that, but political-motivation hasn’t got the spine to. No matter: the unconscious strategy of Hamas was to use the Palestinians as bait, to get Israel to display such sadism/psychopathy that Israel’s “deterrent” of its region from annihilating it … would cease. Once enough population is committed to annihilating one AT ANY COST, including “martyrdom”, THEN one has no “deterrent” left, obviously. Israel, incompetent at understanding anything outside its belief, … took the bait. Now it’s only a matter of time, before that annihilation ( predicted in the Christian bible’s Matt 24, btw, total-annihilation, in a single day, which wasn’t possible until nowadays ) happens, due to Netanyahu’s shamelessness & arrogance… Before his striking within Qatar, I’d thought it would be 3-4y before that annihilation would happen, given how mind-warpingly-slow the unfolding of this setting-up-WW3 has been going… But now that he’s crossed that line, that shortens the timescale, perhaps considerably… Beware unconscious-mind’s strategy: it’s goal is to MAKE its myth-fantasies actualize ( which is where all the apoctalypticism comes from, & also where all the “zombies” movies & games are coming from, too )! Every addict whose life was gradually & systematically destroyed by their unconscious-mind’s addiction “proving who’s boss” by breaking the life it inhabited, rather than tolerating the person living in that life to live, has proven just what unconscious-mind is capable of. ( I’m saying that as a guy who’s racked-up 7+ years as a homeless person, who’s seen what drugs do to lives, & who’s dug into unconscious-mind’s malevolence in a war to break my entire Eternity from its control/dominion: war’s war, & it’ll murder me, & anyone whose life it rules, rather than tolerate us removing our lives from unconsciousness’s rule ) See the difference between Trump’s unconscious-mind, which HAS strategy, you can see the progression from when he was young to now, & it’s consistently in the same direction, always-escalating, vs his SurfaceMind, which is chaotic, unmanaged, uncontrolled, & too random to reliably-predict. See it with Putin, too… & also understand that as they get older, they have less to lose, so therefore competitive-nihilism becomes more-valid, more “victory” to them… Same as competitive-nihilism is “victory” who have been pushed far enough ( I’m including both kami-kaze pilots & submarine-torpedo pilots, some Islamist murdercide-bombers, mass-shooters, etc, in competitive-nihilism, aka Negative-Sum game ) Have the integrity to do TRUE science, & don’t let ANY ideology hold the position that it is “the ONLY valid victim”, especially when it is genociding people wholesale, as we speak. https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6669/Euro-Med-Monitor:-Israel’s-brutality-in-Gaza-surpasses-all-recent-forms-of-terrorism Until the study is done to discover what the predictor of motivation for genociding Palestinians is, it’s propaganda, not true-Science. _ /\ _
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    Emerging trends shaping scientific careers https://council.science/podcasts/emerging-trends-shaping-scientific-careers/?utm%5C_source=rss&utm%5C_medium=rss&utm%5C_campaign=emerging-trends-shaping-scientific-careers
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    A people-first approach to building digital pathways https://council.science/blog/jamaica-src-digital-pathways/?utm%5C_source=rss&utm%5C_medium=rss&utm%5C_campaign=jamaica-src-digital-pathways
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    Honouring science’s principles in a troubled world https://council.science/blog/honouring-sciences-principles-in-a-troubled-world/?utm%5C_source=rss&utm%5C_medium=rss&utm%5C_campaign=honouring-sciences-principles-in-a-troubled-world
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    But what we really need is a tool for assessing the science maturity of digital organizations
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    Neat, so that’s why I don’t get sick when I snort raw chicken.
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    Gene therapy appears to slow Huntington’s disease progression
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    June? So when RFK promised to find the cause of autism?
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    @lianna @glitzersachen I find it useful, since I am contemplating helping out with a booth for my local Green Party chapter.
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    Metabolism does more than fuel embryonic growth; it also sends out signals that control the tempo of development. Metabolism consists of metabolic activities and signalling that occurs as a part of those activities, which makes it challenging to dissociate these functions. Scientists found that metabolism signals to control the tempo of development in a manner distinctly separate from its role in energy and biomass production. They identified a specific sugar molecule that can function as a signalling molecule to control the rhythm of the segmentation clock, which is essentially a ‘biological clock’ that controls the tempo of development.
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    That’s an Ig Nobel contender if I ever saw one.
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    Yes. Because they are literal, by definition, fascists. And fascists have to continually project to maintain their narrative.