Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer. “Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.” #ScienceSunday

What if renters automatically built up equity toward the value of the *internal* space of the property? Then when they move out the owner of the house had to buy back that portion of the house?

In 2020, MIT was able to produce deepfake audio from just 15 seconds of someone’s voice. Spam phone calls can be made to look like they come from any telephone number. Might be a good time to start answering the phone with a funny voice.

Oh this is INTERESTING www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

From Brandon Pries: How is the growth of massive black holes regulated by starlight and stellar explosions? Learn more in today’s bite! ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/11/05/s...

What would a number system with a negative base behave like? Say base-(-10) Would it flip the negativity multiplication rules? (Ex. Like signed numbers multiplied together always make a negative, and differently signed numbers always make a positive)?

VPS13C/PARK23 initiates lipid transfer and membrane remodeling for efficient lysosomal repair https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684214v1

Physics Insight xkcd.com/3154/

They should call self-driving cars “Autobots” And AI chatbots spreading misinformation on social media “Decepticons”

Re: AI and the Trolley Problem I think what makes the trolley problem hard for humans is that we know that if we decided the fate of other’s lives either through action or inaction, we’d have to live with that decision for the rest of our lives. 1/3

Cute doggo today on the charity run for Breast Cancer research — the Run for the Cure.

Enjoying the fall colours today

Crazy thought: Maybe P = NP makes sense if you treat a P algorithm as a time reversed NP algorithm, and an NP algorithm as a time reversed P algorithm.

Pretty exciting breakthrough advancement in nuclear medical imaging. Both better quality images and cheaper to produce scitechdaily.com/worlds-first...

The stark difference between reactions to out-group atrocities to in-group atrocities is on full display. Cognitive bias education should be part of a critical thinking core subject.

Cool illusion But what I think is the neatest part is there’s a physical indicator associated to the individual’s perception. Touches on philosophical ideas around how similar our individual subjective experiences might be to each other’s www.frontiersin.org/news/2022/06...

It’s not that you can’t prove a negative. Negative/positive is just framing. It’s that you can’t, in practice, prove a statement that’s *universal* in scope. We just don’t have access to enough information.

Great blue heron just after sunset

Nice advance in origin-of-life research: scientists get RNA and amino acids to spontaneously attach to each other (RNA aminoacylation). Also, @404media.co is doing good work! www.404media.co/scientists-m...

There are way better pictures of the night sky out there, but this one amazes me because I took it with my phone without a tripod. Really amazing how far the phone cameras have come

Yitang Zhang bided his time teaching calculus. Then he solved a 150-year-old math problem.

It was the last morning of camping today and we were treated to the beautiful artistry of an orbweaver. #photography

This is fascinating!! Researchers simulated a social media platform populated entirely by OpenAI chatbots and found none of their interventions could stop the platform itself from turning into a polarized, hellscape full of echo chambers. futurism.com/social-netwo...

Pretty cool advancement scitechdaily.com/2-one-drop-b...

Exercise is also the most effective, least invasive antidepressant. It's no coincidence that as the rates of obesity have increased (69% of Americans are overweight/obese)...that rates of anxiety/depression have correspondingly increased.This is why I incorporate exercise into every client session.

I posted the same solar facts on two social media platforms: One sparked discussion, the other, disinformation | RenewEconomy reneweconomy.com.au/i-posted-the...

I always find science that gives insight to abiogenesis and interesting frontier scitechdaily.com/nasa-unveils...

The common cold is associated with protection from SARS-CoV-2 Infections No, not unexpected, not unknown, and nothing magical. It is the innate response. academic.oup.com/jid... 1/7

Sense of personal victimhood linked to conspiracy thinking in large international study

Sun looked nice this evening, enjoy

“The team used genetically modified E. coli bacteria to break down waste fabric such as wool and mixed textiles into amino acids and sugars, which were then used as feedstock to make spider silk.” Cool stuff, go Canada! www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...

Sobering physics-of-democracy finding: attractors in social-media dynamics seem to be "networks of outrage."

Setting sun last night through some mild wildfire smoke. No filter

I think we save society by raising kids who value the success of society over the success of themselves. And with that comes seeing people of all sorts as part of their in-group.

The line between life and non-life is continuing to blur techxplore.com/news/2025-07...

The mathematical object known as Gabriel’s Horn presents the painter’s paradox. Where the object has a finite volume but an infinite surface area Here’s how I grapple with this paradox… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel...

If biases are mental shortcuts that save on processing in ways that improve survival, I’m curious what other intelligent animals’ biases are? Are they analogous to ours? Do they have more or less? Completely different? 🤔

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my childhood indoctrination… Facts don’t threaten false beliefs if those facts have been preemptively discredited.

I think what makes me the most sad about high quality generative AI is that every information medium we see now could be faked by almost anyone. 1/7

I’d love to see a Hot Ones + Dog Whisperer cross-over episode where Cesar Millan coaches Sean Evans on how to handle the guest’s reaction to the wings.

Pre-bunking, a method akin to vaccination, trains people to spot and resist #misinformation. A behavioral scientist explains why group-based approaches may be key to maintaining resistance over time: theconversation.com/misinformati... By @bayesbro.bsky.social @cofcharleston.bsky.social

Why don’t they cover all parking lots with solar panels? It’s entirely paved land, can’t grow plants anyways. And the panels would provide some protection from the sun overheating the cars’ interiors. Also protects people from rain as they walk to/from their car.

Happy (belated) Canada Day! Here’s a Canada Day sunset on Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada

Cool scitechdaily.com/caffeine-fli...

Really novel strategy here. Take a drug (small molecule) that binds flu virus proteins, add to it the "alarm" portion of an antibody (Fc), modify it to prevent it being broken down quickly. If enough molecules of the drug-Fc conjugate find a virus, the immune system is alerted.

#Medsky🧪 A comprehensive analyses exploring how plasma metabolites may causally influence psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. Identified 77 unique plasma metabolites and a total of 85 sensitivity robust MR estimated causal effects on neuropsychiatric disorder risk.