Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Cognitive dissonance is two headlines days apart:

Today was the warmest day on earth in 125,000 years.

Today was the day with the most planes in the air at one time ever in history.

@cyrilpedia this article is great. I will definitely remember the term “VC QAnon”

An entire colony of Temnothorax longispinosis ants fits neatly into a little crevice between stones. New York.

#Ants #Entomology #Insects #Temnothorax

'While CCR7 is known to promote thymocyte medullary entry and negative selection, our previous studies implicate CCR4 in these processes, raising the question of whether CCR4 and CCR7 play distinct or redundant roles in central tolerance.'

#Immunology #Thymus #Tcells

https://elifesciences.org/articles/80443

'The second challenge is to demonstrate to the Brazilian population that investing in science and innovation will lead to discoveries and new knowledge that will improve people’s lives and address many of the challenges facing society today.'

https://elifesciences.org/articles/90533?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_features

'The drawing was a page from Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, and I had been invited to witness the painstaking process of its conservation. One morning last winter, I descended to the conservators’ laboratory, which occupies a room just outside the steel-and-glass doorway to the Ambrosiana’s gleaming vault. At the bottom of the stairs, I was stopped by an attendant, who took a coffee cup from my hands and placed it out of harm’s way.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/07/biblioteca-ambrosiana-milan-art-da-vinci-drawings/674625/

'US drugmaker Moderna has struck a deal to make messenger RNA drugs for use in China, despite the tensions between Washington and Beijing.'

https://www.ft.com/content/a9e9bc51-34a9-455c-a7ae-7b9f8c4cb15a

'What seems to attract some technology types to R.F.K. Jr. is his contrarianism — his disregard for conventional wisdom and expert opinion. So before I get into the tech-bro specific aspects of this weird political moment, let me say a few things about being contrarian.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opinion/robert-kennedy-jr-silicon-valley.html

You’ve heard, of course, that the global average temperature has set a new record high numerous times during the past week. But we’re not breaking those old records by just a little bit. The Earth has a very bad fever and the temperature is soaring.

🚨 We are in a climate emergency. 🚨

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Mainstream politicians thought adopting far-right policies would keep the far right away from power.

But beating people at borders, sending them to torture, letting kids drown en masse - all Europe’s immorality & illegality - it’s only fed the bloodlust at the core of far-right extremism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/world/europe/netherlands-refugees-government-collapse.html

#Brazil: #Amazon #deforestation drops 34% in first six months under #Lula. “Government data shows marked reduction against same period last year, reversing trend of destruction during #Bolsonaro reign | Brazil | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/06/brazil-amazon-deforestation-lula

I'm 59. When I was born, segregation existed, interracial marriage was illegal and women were not allowed to have credit cars in their own names until I was 11 years old. CIVIL RIGHTS ARE A NEW THING.

"In the absence of Tgfbr1, the pericloacal mesoderm generates an extra pair of hindlimbs at the expense of the external genitalia"

from Moises Mallo's lab

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.07.548120v1

#StarTrek

Portugal decriminalised drugs in 2001 and subsequently treated drug abuse as a public health issue. Between 1999 and 2016 deaths from overdose fell by 92%.

If Westminster refuses to even consider this approach then future deaths are on their hands.

Opportunities for creative expression through arts in medicine programs are increasing in U.S. hospitals.

Making #art offers something that just taking pills can’t.

Evidence shows that taking part in art programs has many therapeutic benefits, such as reducing #anxiety and stress, supporting #mentalhealth and well-being and connecting people to one another.

https://theconversation.com/drawing-making-music-and-writing-poetry-can-support-healing-and-bring-more-humanity-to-health-care-in-us-hospitals-204684

#health #news