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RA Capital Pivots to the Metaverse(prnewswire.com)
1 points by disco_nap 4y ago|0 comments
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by disco_nap 5y ago
The focus on this article is demographics, but the most important things to tribes are our language, culture, and tribal sovereignty. We are not a box on a census form and never will be. We are pre-Constitutional sovereigns, recognized by o
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by disco_nap 5y ago
Are the losses thermal? How significantly could this change the ocean temperature near the cable? 50% of 600 GW is enough to cause a 10C increase in the temperature of 10 million liters of seawater every second?
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by disco_nap 5y ago
I think it should be obvious that you cannot study electrical excitability in dead, fixed cadaver tissue. This is top-notch science, but might be hard for people to appreciate.
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by disco_nap 5y ago
This study does not report that that layer V cortical neurons are missing a particular ion channel. They examine currents through HCN and voltaged-gated potassium channels and find differences in the total current carried that depends on sp
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by disco_nap 5y ago
The majority of a neuron's transmembrane capacitance is attributed to the lipid membrane itself, so a lower density of ion channels should not appreciably alter capacitance. Action potential rates and the ability to phase-lock to input
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by disco_nap 5y ago
The original research article is the subject of an editorial expression of concern. There is no direct evidence to support the title of the post.
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by disco_nap 5y ago
As an academic neuroscientist doing animal experiments, my hope is that animal research will eventually be obsolete, but think we are 1-2 centuries away from the required technology to do mechanistic and ethical experiments in ourselves. Th
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by disco_nap 7y ago
Kids demand a lot of time but can be remarkably unselfish. My 3 y.o. daughter made my bed this morning and tries to help me if I seem tired. We help each other out, and parenthood opened me up to a way of living that was less self-intereste