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- Comment on Hey kid 1 day ago:
Don’t worry about it though bud. Long before the sun’s light goes out, the structure of the stars break apart, all particles scatter, and the universe finally dies; you will die. The light in your eyes will extinguish, your bones and flesh will fall apart, and the atoms that make you will scatter throughout the earth.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 4 days ago:
Yeah like look organopónicos in Cuba. Thanks to the collapse of the import market that fuelled industrial agriculture and government support of local growers, a good chunk of food in the country now comes from ecology-sound urban agriculture.
- Comment on Archaeology 6 days ago:
Even if there was something to learn I don’t want anyone digging up my grandma. If someone’s descendants are saying “Don’t do that to our ancestor’s grave, it’s disrespectful in our culture” then you’re defiling a grave.
- Comment on This one is for the ladies 1 week ago:
In cases of cellular stress p53 is activated via phosphorylation. It will then direct the cell to pause its division and to either undergo DNA repair or kill itself. p53 is one of the body’s most important defences against cancer. Mutations causing p53 dysfunction are found in more than half of cancer cases.
- Comment on what goes around 1 week ago:
Trees turn into peat which lithifies into coal. The anoxic and acidic conditions of peat bogs can slow decomposition enough to allow peat and coal to form so not all coal is from the Carboniferous, just most of it.
Also the evolutionary lag hypothesis that attributes that extra Carboniferous coal to a lack of lignin decomposers has been thrown into doubt.
- Comment on Genetics 1 week ago:
0/10 doesn’t explain the structure of Vsr-like homing endonucleases
- Comment on pick your side 1 week ago:
English is red, French is blue, Spanish is yellow, etc. Doesn’t matter if it’s language arts or a second language.
- Comment on bugs 1 week ago:
Anyone know what the first known case of ‘bug’ exclusively referring to Hemipterans/Heteropterans? The first use of bug being applied to arthropods was in the 1620s in reference to bedbugs (in Hemiptera but not Heteroptera) with the term ladybug (not in Hemiptera) first attested in the 1690s. Both predate Linnean taxonomy. So why and when did entomologists decide to coin this highly restrictive definition? It’s a very English-language term so it surely wasn’t when the taxon was created by Linnaeus.
- Comment on Stress 1 week ago:
How is it more practical when 1 m/m = 1 mm/mm = 1 μm/μm?
- Comment on Stress 1 week ago:
mm/mm?? why not call it m/m?
- Comment on Too op 1 week ago:
you clearly aren’t a geneticist
- Comment on Experiments 1 week ago:
First one looks like an urchin with pattern baldness
- Comment on Carl? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on epidemiology 2 weeks ago:
Or any smallpox samples sitting in the back of an old lab, like the ones they found in 2014. Or the smallpox samples that the US and Russian governments keep
as WMDsfor research purposes. - Comment on salmon 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but that’s only when they’re on their way back to the sea. For Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest whose territories don’t directly border the sea (so mostly Interior and Columbia Plateau nations) the salmon run was traditionally a major source of staple food. The rivers used to run so thick with fish that people up and down the major rivers could gather enough salmon to live off for the next year.
- Comment on #justposeidonthings 3 weeks ago:
ewww standard atmospheres. Use kilopascals like the good lord BIPM intended
- Comment on isopods are friends 4 weeks ago:
Pill millipedes (looks like Glomeris marginata) vs isopods (some Armadillidium species as it can roll up into a ball). Incredible case of convergent evolution