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#Scientists have #filmed what appear to be the first known instances of #nonPenetrative #reproductiveSex in #mammals, in #bats living in a church attic in the #Netherlands and at a #Ukrainian bat-rehabilitation centre. They wrote about their discovery this week in Current Biology1.

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

#Nature #Science #biology #evolutionary

@georgetakei how do you stop hate or rather, how do you prevent hate from developing in children? (and especially other people's children?)

@georgetakei how do you stop hate or rather, how do you prevent hate from developing in children? (and especially other people's children?)

Semi-wild Psilocybe cyanescens (wavy caps) and Psilocybe allenii have started to pop in large numbers in the Bay Area. This is the first week of the season with more than one rainy day. Harsh weather, I know.

@freemo I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "cop out". Clearly, I don't want a hard rule to decide whether someone lives or die. Such a situation seems important and rare enough that it deserves serious pondering when it happens.

@freemo all decisions are based on how we imagine the future. My previous message was about confronting a past prediction with an actual outcome: "I made you live even though you didn't want it because I thought you'd feel better later. How are you now?"

@freemo like most people, I'd probably spend more effort to rescue the people I know and love than strangers. It's unfortunate for those who are the most isolated.

@freemo I think it should be up to you to decide when faced with such a situation, not the law. Personally, I don't have firm rules for deciding this, possibly because I was never faced with such a situation.

@freemo it's the idea that people don't always know what's best for them as in "I don't need no education". This has been massively abused by various autocratic regimes and nanny states but it's not a reason to let people kill themselves just because they're going through a phase.

@freemo on whether they can be helped, change their mind about it, and get better.

@zoe_dubus je viens d'apprendre que je suis né le jour de l'anniversaire de la découverte du LSD.

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Un peu en retard mais encore dans les clous, aujourd’hui nous fêtons les 85 ans de la découverte du LSD par le chimiste Suisse Albert Hofmann !
Le 16 novembre 1938, Hofmann, qui étudiait l’ergot de seigle pour en tirer des principes actifs intéressants pour leurs propriétés thérapeutiques, synthétise le 25e dérivé de cet ergot (d’où le nom LSD-25). Mais cette nouvelle substance, testée comme stimulant cardiaque, est moins puissante que d’autres molécules déjà sur le marché.

@aftd maybe a better model is to consider if there's any period of time during the commute that feels completely wasted? For example, maybe sitting while doing nothing for 5 min is always a nice break, for 10 min it's nice because you can also catch up on the news, and for 20 min it's boring because it's too short to do anything meaningful, but maybe beyond 30 min you can get some work done.

@aftd what about how you spend your time? Do you get more quality time in the train or in the car?

@ELLIOTTCABLE I enjoy looking at these things. It's hard to come up with contracts that are at the same time useful, innovative, and enforceable.

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