Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Today‘s temperature deviation, relative to the average 25 Dec during the period 1979-2000. Some areas are 18°C or more warmer than normal. Where “normal” is a time interval already affected by global warming.

We have "a rare chance to unbundle the #internet, to pull apart an existing system and rebuild it, piece by piece, in vastly better ways…if the next phase of how we congregate and communicate online is built for #humans and not advertisers.

What we’ll get instead is something much bigger: an entirely new infrastructure for our online lives that no company or platform controls."

https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub

Researchers have discovered a way to build three-dimensional #organoids that resemble how skeletal muscle develops in the fetus. https://elifesciences.org/digests/87081/growing-skeletal-muscle?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

"Venice was a city of printers and readers. In his World of Aldus Manutius, Martin Lowry made a rough guess that, in 1500, Venetian presses produced twenty books per member of the city’s population. There were more printshops – and more booksellers, stationers, bookbinders – in Venice than anywhere else in Europe: twice as many editions were printed there than in Paris, its closest rival."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n24/erin-maglaque/case-endings-and-calamity

The gift that keeps on giving:

"Os governos que saíram vencedores da II Guerra Mundial não deram de imediato atenção à ideia de criar uma carta de direitos para a Humanidade, interessados que estavam em discutir esferas de influência e em arquitetar a Carta das Nações Unidas de maneira a garantir os seus poderes de veto"

https://leitor.expresso.pt/semanario/semanario2669/html/revista-e/fisga/humanizar-os-direitos-humanos

#IDMastodon #Covid especially in vaccinated people the most common symptom is “sneezing”. So if you are sneezing on top of other ,known your symptoms & please get a RATest done- Don’t spoil 🎄 for everyone ,the advice to health professionals to return to work even if +ve RATest is simply reckless…

"When people have their biases and prejudices, yes, I am aware. My head is not in the sand. But my thing is, if I can't work with you, I will work around you. I was not about to be so discouraged that I'd walk away."

-- Annie J. Easley, NASA rocket scientist

"The Chinchorro culture began mummifying their dead in what is now southern Peru and northern Chile around 6000 bce, making South America’s earliest mummified bodies two thousand years older than those of Egypt."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n01/erin-l.-thompson/even-the-eyelashes

'Measles cases continued to pop up here and there in the densely populated city in 1989 and 1990 — as is common with highly contagious infectious diseases. But measles never managed to get a firm grip on any particular neighborhood or community in that two-year period, in part because the vaccination rate among the overall population was reasonably good. That all changed once the illness made its way to the Faith Tabernacle school.'

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2021/03/20/philadelphia-measles-outbreak-1991/

Fake news BC

"En plein Sénat, Caton laisse échapper quelques figues gorgées de jus, comme tombées par mégarde des plis de sa toge. Lorsque ses collègues s'extasient, Caton jure qu'il les ramène de Carthage –et que si elles sont si appétissantes, c'est parce que l'ennemie jurée n'est qu'à trois jours de Rome. Caton a menti: la traversée prend au mieux six jours et il y a toutes les chances que les fameuses figues soient venues de ses propres plantations. Mais qu'importe: le souvenir d'Hannibal est ravivé. Dans le doute, il faut raser Carthage."

https://www.slate.fr/culture/histoires-sans-fin/carthage-incendie-scipion-emilien-rome-resistance

'Taken together, we report on mRNA vaccines targeting P. vivax and demonstrate that Pvs25 mRNA–LNP outperformed an adjuvanted Pvs25 protein vaccine suggesting that it is a promising candidate for further testing in non-human primates.'

#Malaria #Vaccine #Vivax #Immunology

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-023-00786-9

"First, they looked in the genes for clues, and genetic scans showed that inflammation genes were dialled down throughout multiple organs. This was a good lead as inflammation is a risk factor for age-related diseases such as cancer, arthritis and heart disease. To double-check, they took blood samples to look for signs of inflammation; there were fewer pro-inflammatory molecules in the blood of mice with heavy hyaluronan. Finally, they did a third test, by injecting a bacterial protein that causes inflammation and checking how the mice reacted. There was less inflammation in their tissues, and fewer pro-inflammatory chemicals in their blood. This may be naked mole rats’ secret of youth: this thick hyaluronan coating may protect cells from inflammation, so they live longer and avoid disease."

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/23/JEB245035/335695/Underground-anti-aging-secrets-from-burrowing

Excellent. Via @parismarx

Colograph by @madparreira.bsky.social

The works presented here are created with alternative materials rather than etched on copper #art #print #printmaking #colograph #artgallery #hadmade #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com/Colographs

Well, I don't like them. They wet their nests.

"Huxley wrote extensively for popular audiences, frequently appeared on radio and television and even directed an Oscar-winning wildlife film, The Private Life of the Gannets."

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/16/jeb245780/325883/Science-communication-in-experimental-biology

Jangada de pedra 2023.