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by pcrh 4y ago
Mutations acquired during a lifetime are far more common that commonly believed; it's a key aspect of ageing. The astronauts in this study had an average age of 44, by which time they would be expected to have acquired mutations under
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by pcrh 4y ago
The article itself is full of caveats and concludes that their finding is inconclusive... Just some examples: >Overall, further longitudinal studies are required to characterize CH and somatic mutational profiles in the context of space
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by pcrh 4y ago
Spain and Portugal import most of their gas from Algeria.
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by pcrh 4y ago
More accurately, Europe is diversifying its energy sources at a very rapid pace. It imports a lot of LNG from the US for example. FTA: >Through these emergency measures, Europe looks to weather the coming winter, even if pipeline flows a
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What's Going on in the Philosophy of Computer and Data Science?(old.reddit.com)
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Most places that recruit globally are likely to have a greater proportion of international members, especially if language and social factors are less important for success. So being immigrant-heavy doesn't necessarily indicate a relat
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by pcrh 4y ago
Aquisitions!
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by pcrh 4y ago
I'm impressed by how you managed to blame the current situation on Labour, despite the Conservatives being in power for 12 yrs.
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by pcrh 4y ago
The more amazing aspect of that blog post is the authors lack of familiarity with cursive script. Ordinarily, few people would be impressed by neat but otherwise mundane block letter handwriting.
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by pcrh 4y ago
>Don't drive like my brother!
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by pcrh 4y ago
>Yeah, fairly certain they did. There's no need to be "fairly certain" when you can search their entire archive online. For what it's worth, the FT is one of the more reliable sources on matters that affect global eco
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by pcrh 4y ago
While it's true that the latent heat of ice to water is very high, it is not likely an important factor in global warming. Polar ice doesn't cool the world as an ice cube in a drink might. The much more important effect of losing
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by pcrh 4y ago
The real tragedy is that global warming was forecast decades ago. Even as far back as the 1912. https://i.imgur.com/qT7iBSt.jpg
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by pcrh 4y ago
Driving a truck like the F-150 would severely limit your mobility in most of Europe, even in rural areas. You would be unable to drive or park in most of the city centers, and rural roads are often fairly narrow as well. So you would genera
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by pcrh 4y ago
Shoe on head?
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As to the issue of sustainability, Japan seems to be answering that question (so far): yes it is sustainable.
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This article makes some good points, but is incorrect on some others. In particular the statement " It is very, very rare for knowledge of a protein’s structure to be any sort of rate-limiting step in a drug discovery project!" do
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by pcrh 4y ago
...which causes hypocapnia, which can be dangerous if prolonged.
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by pcrh 4y ago
It implies that the "burden" of an ageing population is capped, i.e. the rate of the increase in the elderly proportion of the population will slow down from about 2030. In fact it already seems to be occurring, with several count
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by pcrh 4y ago
The survival curve of Western populations is "squaring", i.e. the age of the oldest is not increasing as much as the average age. You can see this effect for England and Wales in the graphic below [0]. So the extent of the "p
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by pcrh 4y ago
Curious notability ranking. Obama is the No.1 ranking person and Trump the No. 2, Leonardo Da Vinci is No. 3. Also was surprised to find that Audrey Hepburn is from Belgium (rank 158)...
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by pcrh 4y ago
An ageing population is sometimes axiomatically considered to be a problem. However, Japan, S. Korea and Germany do not appear to be suffering from a lack of GDP growth compared to the OECD as a whole. Perhaps a growing productivity per wor
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by pcrh 4y ago
"Study limitations" is standard language in epidemiological papers, so that's not a surprise, nor a condemnation. Further, to my knowledge it is known that "case zero" (i.e. the zoonotic event) did not occur at the
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by pcrh 4y ago
You state below that the requirement for cases to be linked to the market was removed after only a few days. Is it possible that all 120 "unlinked" cases were in fact identified within those few days? Removal of a claim of "d
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by pcrh 4y ago
Figure 1A shows 120 cases from 2019 with no known link to the market, yet they cluster about the market. So the allegation of ascertainment bias does not appear to be substantiated. Further, the criticism of rewording "these analyses p
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by pcrh 4y ago
Wikipedia may be a good start if you're completely clueless about a topic. But, academically-speaking, it doesn't last long. You're not going to be able to produce anything more insightful than a fresher's last minute su
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by pcrh 4y ago
The referenced article on a similar effect for scientific citations can be found below. This isn't an entirely trivial matter, as it shows that "random" persons may be able to shape judicial and scientific narratives through
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by pcrh 4y ago
Peer review can help improve a paper (and it has improved some of mine); however, contrary to some popular notions, it doesn't lend "truth" to a paper. Peer reviewers are not monitoring how experiments were conducted, they on
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by pcrh 4y ago
High molecular weight assemblies of Abeta have been repeatedly identified by numerous researchers from human tissue and other sources. However, similar to myself, Derek Lowe didn't investigate the voluminous literature on the topic to
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by pcrh 4y ago
Apologies! Yes, the Pillier article. Unfortunately I can't correct the original comment.

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