Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Jason Dallas & co show that the community of microbes inhabiting the guts of tadpoles contributes to their ability to withstand rising temperature & suggests that microbiome transplants could offer hope to species at risk as global temperatures rise

#gutmicrobiome #climatechange #amphibians #tadpoles
#zoology #biology #comparativephysiology

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/227/1/jeb247159/341170

Read the full research at https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/227/1/jeb246735/341168

The kids were guessing the ingredients of the stroganoff sauce.

Thinking about salt, I gave them a hint: "It's very small, you can't see it, but it's present in almost all food."

Said the 7yo: "Microplastics!"

Part of why tech workers at huge orgs like this need a union:

Being compelled to relocate to a forced birthing state is violent as hell

So much more to collective power than just getting paid

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/14/24037904/apple-san-diego-siri-ai-team-relocating

If you are a citizen of any EU Member State, I implore you to consider signing the Tax-the-Rich citizen's initiative:
https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/

The idea is to tax the super rich and then use the money for climate justice.

This is an official EU citizen's initiative, meaning that if it reaches certain thresholds, it *will have to be* considered by the EU institutions. This is a really powerful tool, if actually used.

So we should use it.

#TaxTheRich #EU

10 MODE 7
20 PRINT "Hello world"
30 REM Just checking this works
#bbcmicrobot

Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS cartridges use NAND flash for storage , not mask ROMs. Like all Flash memory, they "leak" charge over time and eventually lose data.

The Switch and 3DS card reader tells game cards to "refresh" themselves periodically. https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-switch-3ds-cartridge-lifespan.591607/

But, some users are reporting cartridges already dying, especially ones they haven't used for years. I wonder which of mine already don't work.

Just a reminder that you don't own any data you can't back up. Buying physical cartridges and game cards isn't enough if they're using technology that inevitably deteriorates over time.

9 months after his release from the concentration camps, Viktor Frankl delivered a set of staggering lectures about the meaning of life, which remained unknown to the English-speaking world for 70 years https://t.co/3ZkFb3gs0f

UNICEF says malnutrition and disease threatening more than 1.1m children in Gaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T361U183JvE

A medical provider is threatening to drop me as a patient unless I use their app.

Anyone know any lawyers that take cases like this pro bono?

#January6th My father survived the Depression, WWII, the McCarthy era, the murders of JFK, RFK. MLK, Evers, and X, and much, much more, but he said the insurrection on January 6 was the worst because it was Americans attacking democracy, truth, the rule of law, and honor.

It's importing to monitor your child's internet access because you could wake up some weekend morning and find them reading about Pascal's Triangle.

Long, long shot here but I don't happen to know anyone (or anyone who knows anyone) that's familiar with Arts Council England grant applications, do I? It would be unbelievably helpful towards a very cool music project if so.