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And they illustrate that with his uncertainty principle…which turns out not to even be weird physics, just a mathematical property all waves have. 
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Hmmm. It ate its twin in utero?
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Because there was a lack of information about when the additional copies of AMY1 appeared, the research team mapped and sequenced the genomes of 98 individuals from various ancient and modern populations to see if the number of copies increased around the same time that many hunter-gatherers transitioned to farming. Analysis of ancient and modern human genomes, along with those of our closest relatives, revealed a common haplotype, or group of alleles (different forms of a gene), inherited together from one parent. This haplotype has three copies of AMY1 and was present in samples that predated our migration out of Africa. Haplotypes with more copies of the gene also exist.
I blame Homo erectus for my holiday 5#. Not my fault at all.
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They should call it the second breakfast gene.
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The technique is called ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP); this takes donated lungs that may be classed as marginally acceptable/unacceptable and reconditions them outside the body, making them ready for donation.
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That really is cool, and opens up a lot of possibilities. Still hoping the xenotransplant project works out, but this is excellent in the interim.
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hey! it’s pointing at me!
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The brain controls body weight and obesity by regulating intestinal fat absorption
“Vagus! Give me back my 32” waist!"
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We’re working on it.
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Doesn’t Portland have a volcano inside its city limits?
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Yes! Mt. Tabor is an extinct volcano, and there are a bunch of cinder cones, too. We can see Mt. Saint Helens most days, too. That one’s not remotely extinct.
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Really? I thought that would be hidden by the other Cascades.
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It’s further west than the rest. It’s almost due east from the taller Mt. Adams. Mt. Hood and Mt. Ranier lie along the north-south axis of the cascades while MSH and Adams are west and east of that axis, respectively.
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