Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Marvellous creative commons poster available in English and French on best practices to #StopTheSpread of #COVID19, visualizing how #CovidIsAirborne and why it is so important both to #MaskUp and #CleanTheAir. Credits to I. Bauthian and R. Morse.

“Les amis de la vérité sont ceux qui la cherchent et non ceux qui se vantent de l'avoir trouvée.”
Discours sur les conventions nationales

Nicolas de Condorcet was born #OTD in 1743.

His ideas, including support for a liberal economy, free and equal public instruction, constitutional government, and equal rights for women & people of all races, have been said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment. via @wikipedia

Marquis de Condorcet @ PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34146

#books #literature

#photography #nature #naturephotography #grass #sunset #goldenhour #goldenhourphotography

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I made this...
#fuckCars #lowTrafficNeighbourhood #LTN #BINGO

'The central conundrum in Brazil’s struggle to construct a cultural identity of its own has remained remarkably constant since the first Portuguese explorers arrived in 1500 and encountered Tupi-speaking peoples: To what extent should the European components of the country’s heritage be favored, as opposed to its indigenous and African strands? Or as a group of São Paulo intellectuals memorably phrased it in a manifesto issued nearly a century ago, “Tupi or not Tupi; that is the question.”

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/10/05/searching-for-the-true-brazil-macunaima-mario-de-andrade/

'Researchers who signed up in the past year or so tell Science they committed between $3000 and $6000—plus interest payments on any loans Cheeky Scientist helped them apply for. Hankel declined to comment on the number of people enrolled in the Diamond Program, the company’s pricing strategies, or the program’s content.'

https://www.science.org/content/article/criticism-builds-against-ph-d-careers-firm-cheeky-scientist

#StudioGhibli #PorcoRosso

'Un equipo internacional, en el que participa la neurocientífica española Amaia Arranz, ha introducido 100.000 neuronas humanas en el cerebro de ratones para intentar investigar en vivo qué ocurre durante el alzhéimer. Los autores han observado cómo perecen las células y han logrado evitar esta muerte neuronal con un simple tratamiento oral. Su avance se publica este jueves en la revista Science'

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-09-14/un-raton-con-100000-neuronas-humanas-en-su-cerebro-ilumina-el-enigma-del-alzheimer.html

"Long-term cooking duos on television are rare (where is the successor to Two Fat Ladies?) and perhaps particularly rare is a man and a woman making a meal together without marriage or romantic attachment between them. Child was the most Frenchified American at the time, Pépin the most enthusiastically Americanized Frenchman. “We argued on stage, stealing each other’s mise en place,” he wrote in 2012 in The New York Times."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/10/05/coq-au-pepin-art-of-the-chicken/

'One pleasant surprise was a protein shape that had never been seen before. The researchers dubbed it a ‘Beta-flower’ because the structures contain a number of hairpin turns — found in a known protein shape called a Beta-barrel — that resemble petals on a flower.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02892-z

For anyone unaware, Google Chrome is currently rolling out an update that track your interests based on browsing history, then share them with 3rd party websites. The notification page makes it sound like they added a new privacy feature, but in actuality they've automatically enrolled you into their tracking system and you have to go and manually opt out.

#blackmastodon SHOW'EM.