it's conceivable that organisms and ecosystems exist to serve the interest of cells, not organisms. kind of like the inverse of Darwinian evolution

freedom enables diversity diversity enables differentiation differentiation enables resilience endless conflicts may be the price

in world where financial appraisals dictate so many decisions being made on planetary scales, it becomes necessary to couple financial risk and reward estimates to external constraints. one way out of deadlock is to standardize and organize speculative finance so that it takes into account more […]

I spent a lot of time redesigning and improving the new https://fediverse.info it would mean a lot to me if you boost this, and spread awareness of this powerful onboarding resource ❤️

"Forceful ejection driven by γ-PGA has so far only been described in marine organisms such as jellyfish. Our discovery of biofilm cell ejection via γ-PGA thus reveals not only a previously uncharacterized biofilm dispersion mechanism but also an unexpected mechanistic parallel to evolutionarily […]

`THE CABLES & SOUND DIMENSION ♦ What Kind Of World / Version {STUDIO ONE 7"} ` https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH6lEwdvbGQ

be the person you admire. build the world you wish to see around you. as long as there is freedom, there is hope.

`Here, we introduce sparse component analysis (SCA), an unsupervised approach. SCA facilitated surprisingly clear parcellations of neural activity across a range of behaviors, when seeking both linear and nonlinear embeddings. We applied SCA to motor cortex activity from reaching and cycling […]

`1925 Miguel Flueta - Amapola (Remastered)` https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETjQVOLYSCE

`This density and flux of energy and momentum are the sources of the gravitational field in the Einstein field equations of general relativity, just as mass density is the source of such a field in Newtonian gravity.` https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress–energy_tensor #energy #momentum#energy[…]

Coming up very late tonight, jazz and more till dawn's early light. Freeform Jazz Dance, 3am to 6am on WFMU. https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/166049

This July 4th reminds me that I only learned a few years ago that the Statue of Liberty is an anti-slavery monument created by a French abolitionist back in 1865 to celebrate emancipation, so I tell my little cousins about the broken chains at her feet any chance I get […]

`“Magic states solve a problem with quantum computation that seems paradoxical,” researcher Robin Blume-Kohout said. “The error correction protocols that prevent random errors from corrupting a quantum computer’s memory are so effective that they also prevent programmers from performing a […]

`Quantum tomography (QT) has found broad applications across multiple disciplines, such as atomic and molecular physics, quantum optics, quantum computing, and quantum information. Here, we provide a comprehensive overview of QT applied to atoms and molecules, which enables the full […]

`Quantum tomography is applied on a source of systems, to determine the quantum state of the output of that source. Unlike a measurement on a single system, which determines the system's current state after the measurement (in general, the act of making a measurement alters the quantum state) […]

`The field of quantum sensing leverages quantum mechanical resources such as superposition, entanglement, and squeezing to surpass classical limits in measurement precision and enable new sensing modalities. This Special Topic Collection in Applied Physics Reviews brings together recent advances […]

ADVERT.ANS, 1993-10-07 from Expanding Your BBS by David Wolfe (CD-ROM)

`Maine couple snaps photo of a bear chasing a moose calf` https://apnews.com/video/maine-couple-snaps-photo-of-a-bear-chasing-a-moose-calf-9394bf2695e245c7a5bdf028d5ba5ab2

the management/engineering gap has been elevated to the point where an entire generation will soon be trained to act like engineers without ever experiencing the difference between resource allocation and real-world problem solving

i hope someday there will be an ubuntu distro named "disgruntled wombat" :-P

`In individual subjects, we found that stimulation of the lateral pulvinar influenced striate and extrastriate regions, while ventral–medial pulvinar stimulation preferentially influenced lateral temporal cortices. Across all subjects, the dorsomedial pulvinar stimulation influenced the parietal […]

a war that nobody authorized, which yielded no tangible outcome, and which could resume at any time for any reason... how convenient for corporations!

`Thus, the +6 chord is a tritone sub for the secondary dominant born from linear movement to the dominant. Of course, classical theorists did not use that terminology, but it is the same concept in both styles—remarkably, tritone subs and +6 chords are the same harmonic device.` […]

`We show that the R-transforms used in the non-Hermitian context in fact originate from a single scalar function of two variables. This provides a new and transparent way to compute R-transforms, which until now had been known only in restricted cases such as bi-invariant, Hermitian, or elliptic […]

ALCO_SIS.ANS, 1994-05-14 from CD-ROM Magic 1995 #1 (CD-ROM)

"The proof therefore confirms that two very different theoretical approaches to jamming, developed independently by Parisi and collaborators on the one hand and Wyart and collaborators on the other, do in fact lead to the same physical laws" http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72340-9

`..also popularized by Buckminster Fuller..who authored the 1968 book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. This quotation, referring to fossil fuels, reflects his approach: "... we can make all of humanity successful through science's world-engulfing industrial evolution provided that we are […]

`Here we introduce RNAbpFlow, a sequence- and base pair-conditioned SE(3)-equivariant flow-matching model for generating RNA 3D structural ensembles. Leveraging a nucleobase center representation, RNAbpFlow enables end-to-end generation of all-atom RNA structures without the explicit or implicit […]

`Sea surface temperature and nutrients were the most important pressures associated with change. These results highlight the need to reduce nutrient pollution and meet international climate targets to conserve pelagic habitats and their ecosystem services.` […]

`This study demonstrates a novel catalyst-free approach for converting waste PET into highly crystalline graphitic carbon using graphene oxide (GO) and graphene (Gr) as templating additives during carbonization and graphitization. This circumvents the purification challenges associated with […]

trippy, you can sprain your cartilage "Most triangular fibrocartilage tears will be healed within eight to 12 weeks. In some cases, the symptoms lessen even if the injury has not healed." […]

`Using Salmonella enterica as a model enteric pathogen, along with fluorescent sensors of metal ion availability, we traced the sites of metal restriction in the bovine intestinal mucosa to intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) and phagocytes in the underlying lamina propria..Our findings show that […]

`Results show that increasing n, τ, and L/d can decrease the Vf required for strain-hardening. At Vf = 2.0%, all steel fibers exhibited strain-hardening, with micro-steel fibers having the highest post-cracking strength (σpc = 8.96 MPa). At Vf = 1.0%, micro and striated steel fibers exhibited […]

`This observational evidence highlights the critical role of ion supply processes from the Earth and transport in the magnetosphere in developing the ring current for the super geomagnetic storm. Furthermore, the super-intense ring current penetrated close to the Earth, strongly deforming the […]

`By performing spectroscopy and super-resolution microscopy at liquid helium temperature, we shed light on the spectral and spatial features of the adsorbed species. Our results pave the way for investigations in solid-state physics, where angstrom spatial resolution can be combined with […]

`Hirshfeld atom refinement (HAR) has begun to emerge as an alternative, potentially more accessible, quantum crystallography approach for experimentally visualizing covalency, but it has remained limited and technically impracticable regarding heavy element complexes... Here, we apply HAR to two […]

`This little event is also of great significance, in that he performed on the piano, one of several at the court (two are still there, today) by Gottfried Silbermann, an important developer of the instrument. Bach was magnificent, of course, in his improvisation, and the King upped the ante by […]

cantankerous, and can't anchor us :-P

apparently "200 countries, one cup" is trending :-P

`Smeck played at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidential inaugural ball in 1933, George VI's coronation review in 1937, and toured globally. He appeared on television on variety shows hosted by Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, and Jack Paar.` https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Smeck

`Cléoma Falcon (née Breaux; May 27, 1906 – April 8, 1941)[2] was an American guitarist and vocalist who, along with her husband Joe Falcon, recorded one of the first known examples of Cajun music.` https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cléoma_Falcon

HB-DOORS.ANS, 1995-03-04 from Groovy Bytes: Behind the Moon (CD-ROM)

as anyone who's read Wilkinson's famous monograph carefully enough would tell you ;) `In this Letter we show that a physically motivated postulate about composite quantum systems allows us to construct quantum mechanics based on real numbers that reproduces predictions for all multipartite […]

one thing we have to thank the boomers i power for is that that many of their allies and lackeys and facilitators, from both parties, can be flagged... when the pendulum swings, and swing it does, they will be remembered for their responses to this collective assault on society by the corporate […]

1936 HITS ARCHIVE: It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie - Fats Waller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc0TVWA3WKQ

look what i made :) #yummy

`Preludes, Book II, L. 123: VI. General Lavine - eccentric ` https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV_4LNbT-JU

tldr; horizontal structure can be symmetrized by inversion, but not vertical structure `In an otonality, all of the notes are elements of the same harmonic series, so they tend to partially activate the presence of a "virtual" fundamental as though they were harmonics of a single complex pitch […]

nice chart, wiki! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_chord#/media/File:Symmetrical_otonal_utonal_chords.svg #wiki #musictheory #chords