Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

#^Why did consciousness evolve?


How the advent of consciousness 500 million years ago gave way to an evolutionary ‘arms race’ in sophisticated thinking
- by Aeon Video

Watch at Aeon

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We are now on Sciencemastodon! #Introduction

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Listen:

Songs of disappearance – Australian #frog calls

https://soundcloud.com/bowerbirdcollective/songs-of-disappearance-australian-frog-calls-preview

#Frogs #Extinction #ExtinctionIsForever

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Now out and Open Access in the great society journal @EvolLetters: Experimental evolution of environmental tolerance, acclimation, and physiological plasticity in a randomly fluctuating environment https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evl3.306
This is the latest result from a long-term experiment where we exposed lines of the microalga Dunaliella salina to randomly fluctuating salinity with controlled temporal autocorrelation, using a liquid handling robot.

Today is Pearl Harbor Day in the U.S., a “day that will live in infamy” for the unprovoked attack by the Empire of Japan upon U.S. forces stationed in Hawaii. But it also marked a dark turning point for Japanese Americans, who overnight became the “enemy.” (1/4)

The continuing effort of keeping track of published data on vaccine effectiveness: great work from living review https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/377/bmj-2022-069989.full.pdf showing importance of booster doses to broaden protection, even against variants

"COVID still kills roughly as many Americans every week as died on 9/11. It is on track to kill at least 100,000 a year—triple the typical toll of the flu. The CDC estimates that 19 million adults have long COVID. "

By @edyong209@twitter.com

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/covid-pandemic-exposes-americas-failing-systems-future-epidemics/671608/

In August 2011, Los Alamos techs posed 8 plutonium rods on a work table to take a few photos.

Had these rods rolled into each other there would have been an instant criticality event. (Think "Demon Core")

Worst still, a supervisor who saw the display ordered the techs to safe the rods, ignoring the protocol to evacuate EVERYBODY (b/c even a hand could moderate the neutrons & cause criticality).

It caused a 4-year, billion-dollar shutdown.

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Smart people + overfamiliarity = stupid things.

Fantastic paper from Thiago Cunha and gang implicating IDO producing meningeal dendritic cells in neuropathic pain. Congrats, guys! https://www.jci.org/articles/view/153805