Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

It's difficult to explain how great the original Netflix DVD service was - how much better than instantly streaming Vin Diesel it was to be able to get in a day or two anything from the Criterion Collection, for example.

https://www.thesmartset.com/the-long-goodbye/?ref=thebrowser.com

"These draft pages make it possible to see in detail how Darwin originally composed and revised many of his arguments and expressions. The drafts also contain many sentences that were never published, offering fascinating insights into Darwin's thinking as he composed the book that quite literally changed the world."

http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_Drafts_of_Origin_of_species.html

'What went wrong? It isn’t that the past 25 years of consciousness studies haven’t been productive. The field has been incredibly rich, with discoveries and applications that seem one step from science fiction. The problem is that, even with all these discoveries, we still haven’t identified any neural correlates of consciousness. That’s why Koch lost the bet.'

https://aeon.co/essays/are-we-ready-to-study-consciousness-in-crabs-and-the-like

'Instead, the social media giant “routinely continued to collect” children’s personal information, like their locations and email addresses, without parental permission, in violation of a federal children’s privacy law, according to the court filing.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/technology/instagram-meta-children-privacy.html

“Na escola, tinham-me ensinado que na Revolução não tinha sido disparado nenhum tiro, até que em Novembro de 2021 li o livro Esquecidos em Abril, os Mortos da Revolução (sem) Sangue, do jornalista Fábio Monteiro, que relata a história dos que morreram”, diz, ao PÚBLICO, o realizador. Não foi apenas junto à sede da PIDE que houve tiroteio.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/11/26/politica/reportagem/revolucao-sangue-historia-morreram-dia-25-abril-2069982

“Orchids have interested me as much as almost anything in my life,” Darwin wrote. In their forms, he saw a vast landscape of the forces of selective evolution, a dance they played with their environment and their pollinators. “My little darlings,” as he sometimes referred to orchids, became his model for further exploring the forces he so broadly described in The Origin of Species. Just three years after the publication of that shattering work, he had produced his tome puzzling over the multitudinous, striking habits of orchids: On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects, and On the Good Effects of Intercrossing.'

https://nautil.us/why-is-everything-an-orchid-424338/?ref=thebrowser.com

'Bayer’s chief executive has blamed an “old chemistry mindset” and a chronic lack of investment in research by his predecessors for a thin drug pipeline that has dragged down the group’s share price.'

https://www.ft.com/content/ffce99b0-7fd6-4b47-94f4-45d03cd68882

"Forced sterilization, with its history of racism and eugenics, is banned under multiple international treaties. Thirty-seven European nations and the European Union have ratified the Istanbul Convention, which declares, without exception, that nonconsensual sterilization is a human rights violation.

But a New York Times investigation found over a third of those countries have made exceptions, often for people that the government deems too disabled to consent."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/world/europe/europe-disabled-women-sterilization.html

"His only direct reference to Roosevelt is an approving quotation taken from a speech the president gave attacking the “collectivism” of corporate America and calling for the reintroduction of a “democratic competitive order.” Hayek never even uses the term “free market” in the book. The problem, as Oreskes and Conway admit, is that the nuanced version of The Road to Serfdom is not one that reached the American people. Instead, Reader’s Digest produced a twenty-page condensation that found a mass audience."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/12/07/the-naturalist-friedrich-hayek/

"To find diverse CRISPR systems in nature, Zhang, MIT bioengineer Han Altae-Tran and their colleagues developed an algorithm called FLSHclust, which analyses genetic sequences in public databases. These databases contain hundreds of thousands of genomes from bacteria and archaea, hundreds of millions of sequences that haven’t been linked to a particular species and billions of genes that encode proteins. FLSHclust found CRISPR-associated genes by looking for similarities between genetic sequences and grouping them into about 500 million clusters."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03697-w?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=2ccfe95815-briefing-dy-20231124&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-2ccfe95815-49733304

“Colograph

The works presented here are created with alternative materials rather than etched on copper. From squashed paper costumes to packaging and leather book covers, objects are inked with different processes, both intaglio and planographic. Scales vary and are usually life-size. The paper costume prints are mostly made from real costumes (with the exception of the long dress, which is a smaller scale model) , worn by actors in a film project and subsequently smashed, inked and printed on cotton paper.”

https://madalenaparreira.com/Colographs

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