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4y ago
It is not irrelevant. Check out the capitalization of the article’s title in its website.
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Watch starfish embryos become living crystals
(nature.com)
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4y ago
That book is mentioned throughout the article ;)
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Just a pedantic nitpick since I couldn’t stop the biologist in me: It’s “ reuteri ”, all lowercase.
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4y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132 - April 2019, 441 comments
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(2016)
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4y ago
> Wikipedia front page has a decent low key summary of the news. Then you might like Legible News ( https://legiblenews.com/ ), which uses Wikipedia’s Current Events portal.
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Is BA.5 the ‘Reinfection Wave’?
(theatlantic.com)
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Check out “Art of the Marbler”, a 1970 film showing how marbled paper is made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyga8VMWXKg
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4y ago
This reminded me of an undergraduate Physics professor who made us estimate the fraction of molecules in one breath that had been exhaled by Jesus. Fun times.
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An afternoon window is ok. I’ve done IF eating on a 12pm-8pm or 2pm-8pm schedule and it worked just fine.
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4y ago
When I was doing intermittent fasting I would usually have roasted fish and potatoes for lunch, all prepared on the same baking dish[1]. It was very filling, agreeing with your post. [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02
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Your First 5 Tools
(youtube.com)
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4y ago
Moonies were prevalent in Chile later on, during the late 90s. The press would refer to them as “la secta Moon” (the Moon cult).
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> In Chile there was the Allende family A much better example would be the Frei family, with both Eduardo Frei Montalva and his son, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, having served as presidents and several other members having different politica
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How to find, read and organize papers
(nature.com)
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4y ago
A slab serif monospaced font or a typewriter one might be good alternatives.
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There are TrueType fonts like MS Gothic that have embedded bitmap glyphs at small sizes.
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4y ago
Related: ‘No Aliens, No Spaceships, No Invasion of Earth’ An oral history of Contact – https://www.vulture.com/2022/06/an-oral-history-of-contact-t...
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Tirzepatide Once Weekly for the Treatment of Obesity
(nejm.org)
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Speaking of contact microphones: The saxophonist Colin Stetson makes extensive use of them, including one on his throat. To see (or rather hear) them in action check out this video of one of his tracks[1] along with an explanation of his te
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> they'll continue because interest in these particular games transcended a particular generation Speedrunning seems to support this idea. That’s also one of the reasons retro games have been analyzed in such depth.
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Last year I experimented with fermenting chili peppers after watching the It’s Alive video series from Bon Appetit [1]. In particular I would spend time finding and photographing the gas buildup in the jar. A fascinating process overall. [1
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Every word in the article has soft hyphens inserted between each syllable.
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The amount of people that use BLAST every day and cannot define E-values (despite being explained in its FAQ! [1]) is baffling. [1]: https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?CMD=Web&PAGE_TYPE=B...
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You can BLAST that furin cleavage sequence and find matches in other non-patented sequences, though. Here’s one from 2011 (bases 286 to 304, reverse complement): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/DN616748.1
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> It has also been reported that as an additive N-L-lactoyl phenylalanine improves the taste of food, conferring an umami flavor. It is found naturally in significant amounts in some traditional Chinese fermented foods such as preserved
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Boxes and Glue: A typesetting library written in Go
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Yes, every day. I started with Google Reader and now use NewsBlur as well as some scripts that aggregate RSS feeds and send me daily email updates.
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A Twitter bot that posts images of macromolecular structures (i.e. proteins and nucleic acids) every thirty minutes. I spent an embarrasing amount of time tweaking the coloring and orientiation of the renderings, but I like the results: ht
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