Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

It is crazy how much land has been burned this year in Canada. Just look at this graph

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66550759

#Canada #wildfire #ClimateChange

'The administrative dissolution of groups suspected of antistate violence, the ultimate political weapon in the government’s arsenal, had until recently been used primarily against Islamic terrorists and neofascist groups. Now it is being deployed against ecological activists.'

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/08/13/the-war-of-the-worlds-in-france/

'Many late 19th-century paintings present the cypress as the morbid symbol that Hugo describes. Arnold Böcklin’s cypresses in his well-known “Island of the Dead,” for instance, leave little to the imagination. Gabriel-Albert Aurier interpreted van Gogh’s trees in dialogue with these morbid Symbolist paintings.'

https://hyperallergic.com/838381/the-dark-side-of-van-goghs-cypress-trees/

'In August 1948 Francisco Franco’s Guardia Civil exacted a cruel and unusual punishment on every man, woman and child by summarily ordering them out of the pueblo in eastern Andalucía. Given no time to prepare, the 250 villagers fled on mules or on foot, leaving their belongings behind. Already poor and struggling to survive, many had nowhere to go.'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/13/75-years-on-francos-cruel-punishment-haunts-spanish-mountain-village

“Companies don’t like the term trial and error,” said Dr. Daniel Drucker, who studies diabetes and obesity at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto and who consults for Novo Nordisk and other companies. “They like to say, ‘We were extremely clever in the way we designed the molecule,” Dr. Drucker said.
But, he said, “They did get lucky.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/health/weight-loss-drugs-obesity-ozempic-wegovy.html

✂️ Na data de hoje, mas em 1986, o Governador Leonel Brizola, convidou o Ministro da Ciência e Tecnologia para abrirem a 6ª Feira Internacional da Informática, no Riocentro. A grande novidade era a chegada dos primeiros ATs, sucessores de 32 bits (286) do PC XT.

“Your Car, My Breath”

Quite a powerful picture 👇👇

By Marta Frej

"The fact that this core group of doctors has been spreading misinformation completely unopposed from March of 2020 up until today is a very significant finding and truly representative of the reality of what is happening in American medicine today" https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/105898?xid=nl_mostcommented_2023-08-18&mh=992b1bab61fd6c2110a21741b08e03f3

PLEKHS1 drives PI3Ks and remodels pathway homeostasis in PTEN-null prostate https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)00558-0?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Is the therapeutic potential of hallucinogens risky and overhyped?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/19/therapeutic-potential-hallucinogens-risky-overhyped-lsd-mdma-psilocybin-work

It's not someone else's problem.

Climate refugees. Canadian
Climate refugees. Hawaii.

#climatecrisis

Having shaken off nationalism, Europe risks civilisationalism.

It is possible to be black and Dutch, or for a person of Moroccan descent to be unequivocally French. But is it possible to be non-white and to think of oneself as “European”?

Might eight decades of EU integration accidentally foment a form of ugly, pan-continental bigotry?

A new book decries the continent’s subtler form of chauvinism.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/08/17/having-shaken-off-nationalism-europe-risks-civilisationalism

#Europe #Identity #Chauvinism #Ethnicity #Whiteness

📚🌠 My blog series on early mechanical calculators: Napier's Bones a marvel in logarithms: http://rdearman.org/blog_2023.html#orgc142ffb

This Mayo Clinic article sums it up well about why people believe #pseudoscience. They aren't unintelligent, maybe just out of hope they can find relief.

"It's frustrating to have persistent symptoms your doctor can't readily explain. But accepting a medically unrecognized diagnosis from an unqualified practitioner may leave the real cause — such as depression or fibromyalgia — undiagnosed, while it continues to take its toll."

#bjj #wellness #science #supplements #alternativemedicine

Another one bites the dust??
RNA has been implicated in the recruitment of chromatin modifiers...
Our results point to substantial limitations in using RNase A treatment for mapping RNA-dependent chromatin occupancy and invalidate conclusions that were previously established for PRC2 based on this assay.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.16.553488v1

"It just confirms that climate change is the biggest threat to our planet, to humankind, and will remain so for the next decades and we do need to do everything we can to mitigate the effects."
https://news.sky.com/story/wildfires-burn-in-tenerife-canada-and-portugal-amid-warning-of-alarming-speed-of-climate-change-12941036?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-08-18&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+17+08+2023

Estimated disadvantages for non-native English speakers when conducting different scientific activities.

Figure 5 from Amano et
al. (2023) "The manifold costs of being a non-native
English speaker in science." PLoS Bio, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.
pbio.3002184

Or, if you prefer a more popular summary, see https://theconversation.com/non-native-english-speaking-scientists-work-much-harder-just-to-keep-up-global-research-reveals-208750

#academia #AcademicChatter

Thacker Pass and the Ugly Tradition of Extraction Without Indigenous Permission
By Tokata Iron Eyes

Peehee mu'huh (or Thacker Pass, as it’s known in English), a sensitive wilderness area located in what is now called Humboldt County, Nevada, sits on the ancestral homelands of the Paiute and Shoshone peoples. Right now, these lands are threatened by a lithium mining project being developed by a company called Lithium Nevada, a subsidiary of Lithium Americas Corp.

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The lifecycle of a peanut is absolutely nuts and yet you can hardly find anything about it. The peanut flower lowers itself down, digs deep into the ground, then becomes the fruit peanut that we know. It's not a root! It would make a killer time lapse.