Posts by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #AZED6m9reJ7ME42YGe by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-08-29T15:58:03Z
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'Braxton, who is Black, decided to go to the town hall and talk to Stokes, who is white, in person. He told Stokes that he would need a key to the town hall to begin his duties. Stokes acquiesced and gave him a key, but when Braxton entered the building, he found that town hall had been stripped of its records, beyond a couple boxes of discarded items that looked like trash. He also said he noticed that Stokes had given keys to friends of his, people who were not council members and had no official business with the city, who were walking in and out of the building.'https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/black-mayor-alabama-town-locked-out
(DIR) Post #AZcxRvyzLJ8cbCwpE0 by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-09-10T08:13:42Z
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"My cohort was the most diverse in the history of my program, yet many faculty members weren’t used to being around people from various backgrounds. I received many comments questioning my place in the program, my future in science given that no one in my family has a PhD, and my legal status in the country."https://elifesciences.org/articles/92403
(DIR) Post #AZrdi86UB85BSnXgMy by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-09-17T16:35:49Z
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'Following Joseph Lister, German surgeons, unlike their French colleagues, used carbolic acid spray to sterilise their tools and operating areas. French surgeons did insist on ‘hygiene’, but by this they meant the provision of adequate bedding and the maintenance of medical supplies, not sterilisation. Death rates for amputations on the French side reached 75 per cent (including toes and fingers) – a shocking figure, given that by 1870 the use of Lister’s techniques in peacetime amputations had resulted in a drop from 50 per cent to 15 per cent.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n18/christopher-clark/predicamental
(DIR) Post #AZuw3fVG3NEGyDBdxY by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-09-19T06:35:07Z
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'But, as we have been learning pretty much continuously since 2000, the will of the majority of the American people no longer matters all that much in who is running their country.'https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/18/donald-trump-could-win-contingent-election
(DIR) Post #Aa8IEnCSIo9EzTe7rU by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-09-25T17:37:44Z
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Madalena (right) and Audrey II (she gets bigger. #Theater #SetDesign #HandMade #ArtGallery #TheaterArts #artmastodon https://madalenaparreira.com/set-design
(DIR) Post #Aa8LKoplRKKlesb7Sa by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-09-25T18:15:08Z
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@freemo We may never know!
(DIR) Post #AaQARu0T0MDP4s3d3Y by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-10-04T08:17:13Z
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"Until the age of seventy, nothing I drew was worthy of notice. At seventy-three years, I was somewhat able to fathom the growth of plants and trees, and the structure of birds, animals, insects and fish." —Katsushika Hokusai, One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji, 1834https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hokusai-warriors/
(DIR) Post #AaURgkcBF6z6Ck3rBw by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-10-05T11:26:54Z
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Evolution strikes again"One of the most uncommon hinges of vertebrate Ig is that exclusively found in Antarctic fishes: IgM H chain has a remarkably long hinge region, ranging from 14 to 22 amino acid residues, highly polymorphic, and rich in prolines and glycines (Coscia et al, 2000; Coscia et al, 2011; Coscia et al, 2012). Given these peculiar features, the hinge region has been suggested to provide the cold Ig molecule with higher flexibility to exert its function at very low kinetic energy in the Antarctic environment."#Preprint #Immunologyhttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.04.560855v1.full.pdf
(DIR) Post #Aau2Bu5VIuZrgXJcpM by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-10-18T18:26:47Z
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@freemo For some reason it made me think of Boba Fett
(DIR) Post #AaxGZijNA6zMFE5v5E by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-10-20T07:00:57Z
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"At the same time, wealthy nations have, for centuries, been extracting natural resources from low- and middle-income countries and pocketing the proceeds. Scientific data, unfortunately, have been among those resources."https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03239-4
(DIR) Post #AaxGiei7TjACNllk2q by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-10-20T07:53:43Z
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@josemanuel What you’re missing is the focus of the piece: the lack of data sharing and credit for the communities where the data was mined.
(DIR) Post #AaxNMpM3vEqyhezT5U by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-10-20T08:00:08Z
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@josemanuel A more predatory aspect in mining genetic/population data in the developing world & then enmeshing it in patents & other forms of IP protection. In which case there is no sharing at all, it’s just strip mining genetic resources.
(DIR) Post #AcNm8NeOHM4fOooxcG by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-12-02T00:26:41Z
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"Why were there so few female scientists? Why was science considered a masculine enterprise? Reflecting on these issues, Keller embarked on two projects: her studies on gender and science, and her biography of US geneticist Barbara McClintock."https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03819-4
(DIR) Post #AcfzaeR59epsPovVke by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-12-10T08:21:11Z
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'Another implication of their study is that our ancestors enjoyed a malaria-free existence right up until the neolithic transition 10,000 years ago when, coincident with the shift from nomadic to agrarian lifestyles, Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for the deadliest form of human malaria, mutated to target Neu5Ac so abundantly present on human cells. It is thought that our more agricultural lifestyle made humans more vulnerable to the malaria-carrying mosquitoes that bred in stagnant pools near settlements.'https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/10/sugar-coating-cells-illness-pathogens-evolutions-glycans-sialic-acids
(DIR) Post #AclU1LO43PYTZSxVqa by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-12-12T15:56:25Z
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Method"Robert De Niro was suggested by the producer, Arnon Milchan – it turned out Bobby was a big Python fan. Though his character, Tuttle, is a relatively small part, he’s the hero really, as he’s the only person who’s achieving anything. I said to him: “You’re a plumber, but I want you to treat the plumbing like it’s brain surgery.” He actually found a New York neurosurgeon and sat in on an operation as part of his preparation, though when you see Tuttle handling equipment in closeup, those hands are mine."https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/dec/11/robert-de-niro-terry-gilliam-jonathan-pryce-brazil-plumber-python
(DIR) Post #Acs73KHBKcCDM1kgHQ by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-12-15T17:16:18Z
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"El caso que ha publicado este diario ilustra bien el mayor fallo de seguridad conocido hasta ahora en este terreno. En septiembre pasado, un grupo de piratas informáticos se infiltró en las bases de datos de 23andMe, una de las mayores firmas del sector, y robó los perfiles genéticos de cuatro millones de personas."https://elpais.com/opinion/2023-12-15/datos-geneticos-sin-proteccion.html
(DIR) Post #AdEmApESl7SbxYCKKu by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-12-27T10:14:33Z
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"The rate of serious medical complications increased in hospitals after they were purchased by private equity investment firms, according to a major study of the effects of such acquisitions on patient care in recent years."https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/upshot/hospitals-medical-errors.html
(DIR) Post #AdPmAWfuQMyXHBghzE by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2023-12-30T10:41:43Z
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"In normal times, the United States stands out among advanced democracies for its high levels of poverty and its low levels of aid. In 2019, right before Covid struck, America’s relative child poverty rate resembled that of Mexico or Bulgaria."https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/01/18/tools-to-end-the-poverty-pandemic-the-viral-underclass/
(DIR) Post #AdiDinBmYVIJSIRdei by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2024-01-08T05:57:54Z
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"The woman’s case wasn’t a one-off. Just about every time an embryo implants and begins to grow, it dispatches bits of itself into the body housing it. The depositions begin at least as early as four or five weeks into gestation. And they settle into just about every sliver of our anatomy where scientists have checked—the heart, the lungs, the breast, the colon, the kidney, the liver, the brain."https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/01/fetal-maternal-cells-microchimerism/676996/
(DIR) Post #AjWP0mjDVGzJMSTI1Y by cyrilpedia@qoto.org
2024-07-02T13:05:35Z
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'A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Hoau-Yan Wang, a professor at the City College of New York, on charges of falsifying data to obtain grants totaling roughly $16 million from the National Institutes of Health.'https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/health/wang-cassava-alzheimers-fraud.html