Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Na corda bamba de sombrinha.

#Brasil2023

'Advances in the study of plant silica micro-fossils (phytoliths) have helped trace banana cultivation from the Island of New Guinea more than 7,000 years ago – from where it spread through Island Southeast Asia, and eventually across the Indian Ocean to Africa, more than a millennium before Vasco da Gama navigated from Africa to India. These techniques have also revealed unforeseen agricultural origins – such as the forgotten cereal, browntop millet.'

#Agriculture #Archeology @aeon_co
https://aeon.co/essays/revolutionary-archaeology-reveals-the-deepest-possible-anthropocene

'I just want to share with readers that Elliott had one consistent message which I remember vividly: “I did not let Philby go. He gave me the slip.”

Now, what do you believe in the world of spies? Well, I did not get where I am today without a heavy dose of scepticism. Early in my journalistic career I heard the old Fleet Street warning: “ask yourself why is this lying bastard lying to me?” Yet I was, and still am, inclined to believe Elliott. I spoke about this to my late friend David Cornwell (the author John le Carré).'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/31/i-did-not-let-kim-philby-go-he-gave-me-the-slip-what-an-mi6-spy-told-me-over-lunch

"Among adults with mild-to-moderate Covid-19 who were at risk for progression, VV116 was noninferior to nirmatrelvir–ritonavir with respect to the time to sustained clinical recovery, with fewer safety concerns."

#COVID #COVID19 #SarsCov2 #Antiviral #nejm

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2208822?query=featured_home

'Children and other vertebrate animals stunted due to malnutrition can compensate for this deficit by resuming growth at a higher-than-normal rate via a still ill-defined mechanism. High mortality and adverse effects later in life may offset the positive effects of catch-up growth. Here we report that the invertebrate Drosophila melanogaster also experiences catch-up growth following a period of starvation, and the relaxin receptor Lgr4 instigates this catch-up growth.'

#Drosophila #Metabolism #Preprint #Insulin

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.30.522288v1

'Within months, hundreds of ACT UPers were surrounding his building at the N.I.H., and I was the first one arrested, after climbing onto its portico. Cops wrestled me down, bound my hands behind me with a zip tie, then hauled me through the building to a police van. The burly cop pulling my shoulder was dumbfounded when a familiar short man in a white lab coat walking toward us down the hallway yelled, “Peter, are you all right?” Laughing, I replied, “I’m fine. Just doing my job. How about you, Tony?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opinion/anthony-fauci-hiv-aids-act-up.html

"A better understanding of the strong interplay between the various parameters at play in a single glass of bubbly has been the subject of study for about two decades. After a short overview of the history of champagne and sparkling wines, this tutorial review presents the key steps involved in the traditional method leading to the production of premium sparkling wines that are supersaturated with dissolved CO2 after refermenting the blends of still base wines in sealed bottles."

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-anchem-061318-115018