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by alevskaya 10y ago
That's a terrible paper. This is a small epidemiological study where they're looking both at 1. exposure to sun and 2. occupational exposure to -any- herbicides/pesticides/fungacides/insecticides (not just glyphosa
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by alevskaya 10y ago
I'm very sorry for your loss. But as a cancer researcher, I can fairly confidently say that glyphosate had nothing to do with your father's death. There just isn't any evidence showing that it has direct mutagenic activity
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by alevskaya 10y ago
Well... scientists get passionate when we see ideological actors that systematically ignore evidence. If you prefer a more serious source, the EU's European Chemical Agency (ECHA) just announced their review finding that “the availabl
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by alevskaya 10y ago
Thanks so much for the insight (grew up on a small farm in the northeast)! I'm curious how much worse you've found the "drift-killing" of these newer chemicals than traditional herbicides - are farmers simply being more
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by alevskaya 10y ago
I'm not trying to belittle anyone. I work on cancer therapeutics -- when people push questionable science in a field I work in, I feel it important to highlight this. There are many better-supported objections to modern anti-herbicid
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by alevskaya 10y ago
Oh come on - this is a disingenuous stunt masquerading as debate. Salt is safe to drink, but I'm not going to down a mystery glass filled with putative 5 molar solution of it on stage like a trained circus animal.
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by alevskaya 10y ago
I won't defend Monsanto's behavior here, but this is all arising as a response from the IARC's determination that glyphosate is a potential carcinogen. As a cell-biologist/biophysicist, this determination seemed primari
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by alevskaya 10y ago
Not the author, but their page is using the client-side javascript MathJax renderer https://www.mathjax.org/ which renders the mathematical subset of LaTeX.
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by alevskaya 10y ago
Cancer is complicated, but it emphatically is a _genetic_ disease, with inherited _genetic_ risk factors. Environmental influences are typically mediated by their ability to cause or promote mutation via cell stress (e.g. by promoting loca
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by alevskaya 11y ago
Yeah, topological operators are just amazingly cool and are deeply related to subdivision surfaces and many other beautiful parts of geometry. I'd recommend checking out the mathematical sculptor George Hart (whose work introduced the
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by alevskaya 11y ago
Author here - If I thought people were going to rediscover this old project I might have invested some time in redoing the UI, apologies for the crudeness. I was inspired to make a quick plane-symmetry sketching tool after being inspired f
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by alevskaya 11y ago
Reverse engineering binary or obfuscated code does take long chunks of unbroken time and a lot of attention. You have to fill up your short term memory with many structures seen or guessed at in order to begin making connections between th
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by alevskaya 11y ago
Author of the repo here. I didn't expect to see this come up again, it was a weekend project done years ago while I was studying x86 internals and emulation. There are much cleaner emulators to study in JS: for the x86 family, I recom
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by alevskaya 12y ago
DNA storage is pretty silly. The claim is 5.5petabits/mm^3 with a 100x redundancy. The problem is that massive storage is only as good as your ability to encode/decode into it. Let's be clear: this work encoded just 5.27 me
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by alevskaya 12y ago
I came to biology from physics over a decade ago thinking that theory would matter. But modern biology is not waiting for a Grothendieck. We are not wanting for a deep theoretical view to reinterpret our data with. We are wanting for che
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by alevskaya 12y ago
The worst consequence of this insecure, anxious, hypercompetitive culture is the near-impossibility of sincere collaboration. I speak from my experience as a very successful grad-student and postdoc in synthetic biology and neuroscience.
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by alevskaya 12y ago
The problem with life evolving this early is that life absolutely requires the higher-mass elements from the supernovae arising from the first few stellar generations. The early universe was an inhospitable desert of Hydrogen.
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by alevskaya 12y ago
It's still quite unlikely. The original biochemistry needed a liquid aqueous environment to form and replicate, and you won't find that condition outside of a reasonably deep gravity well in a solar habitable zone. Only Venus, E
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by alevskaya 14y ago
The author here. There is a difference in spirit between publicly accessible and published. I did this in a burst of mania over a few days more than a year ago and only pushed it to github as an afterthought. I never really expected more