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I had not previously heard of this particular branch of what I call “wacky science”.
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Oh, it wasn’t a human egg?
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It’s… Tythonian!
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Lately I’ve been feeling like the whole flat earth thing is symptomatic of Trumpism as a whole - a million different bits of evidence which obviously prove a thing, that come from simply living in the modern world, all get rejected as part of some sort of grand conspiracy that involves huge numbers of people, and the remaining proofs are too complicated for them, so they get misunderstood/rejected for that reason. They then come up with simplistic, overlapping, incoherent, conspiratorial worldviews to replace reality that, when you poke holes in them, they move the goalposts and ultimately fall back to a position that makes no positive assertions at all, but just denies the reality-based position(s). It’s true for everything - a round Earth, climate change, germ theory of disease, how tariffs work, all manner of geopolitical realities… This really is the world we’re in now.
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I like this summary:
“The ultimate problem in cell biology is not how a few puzzle pieces fit together,” Brangwynne says, “but how collections of billions of them give rise to emergent, dynamic structures on larger scales.”
The degree of complexity inherent in living systems is constantly underestimated. The more we learn, the less we understand. I love it!
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I think we talked about these at TOP, but just in case:
I bring it up because I am really curious about this finding, and have not seen anything more recent. Anybody seen any updates?
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I seem to have the flatulence part down today.
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Enjoy some fun stuff. There is precious little of it these days!
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Yeah, that was first announced about a year ago, and silence since. Very intetesting, but no new info. Sigh…
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It’s incredible how much we still don’t know about our own bodies, how many discoveries like this are being made every year that may or may not revolutionize medicine. I feel like, if we’re still around in a few centuries, the amazing amount of progress we’ve already made since the dawn of science-based medicine will seem like the tiniest, most insignificant drop in the bucket by comparison. I sometimes wonder how far we actually can get before the information becomes so complex that a human brain, no matter how educated and specialized, can no longer hold enough of it at once to make new connections and discoveries.
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I mean, why the hell not…
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I’m ready
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Could we schedule it for this week… I’m unhappy with the current universe…
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All these articles about how the universe “could” undergo vacuum decay could really stand to point out it has been 13700 million years without an incident…on the list of ways our world might end, it is roughly on the same tier as “dreamer wakes up”.
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