Ivan Bessonov

this is, probably, the most surprising point for me

turns out, these rogue endometrial cells are switching to anaerobic lactate metabolism JUST AS cancerous cells do

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease 5k words, 23 minutes reading time

www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...

a great read on the topic i knew so little about!

A beautiful stand of Saguaro cacti, in shades of pastel near sunset or sunrise.

What if there were a carbon sequestration method that was fully solar-powered, could be deployed anywhere & cost pennies per unit?

Oh. Trees. I just re-invented trees.
EXCEPT trees don't hold carbon for very long.

Enter the Saguaro cactus:
It shifts carbon from 'biotic' to 'abiotic'!

(📷: NPS)

i was under impression that Asgard archea only inhabit abyssal plains in deep oceanic floor

turns out, sweeping the coastal wetlands can yield HUNDREDS of their previously unknown genomes (China has it all)

and tell us new details about the emergence of Eukariotes

Dark thread on a beige cloth background: a round-bodied man in knee-socks and a bizarre crested helmet holds a sword and metal club or mace, while a deer-headed hominid with knee-socks and armor battles him in profile view, Behind them are various desert plants, and a wavy line suggests they stand on sand dunes.

From r/embroidery subreddit:
user 'strombus_monster' reproduced a Moche depiction of:
"A deer fighting a lima bean in the desert."

The Moche were the dominant culture in Northern Peru ~ 100 CE to 800 CE.

я научился плавать лет в 25, но правда без учителей, самостоятельно, на море

до сих пор не избавился от неофитского пыла :)

ah, so there was a justification for the biotic process, i just missed it

does it seem reasonable for you? is it really impossible to accumulate the “observed” amount via photochemical route?

thanks for the clarification!

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ....

as i understand from this paper, dumethylsulfide is NOT a biosignature

so the question “whether it’s observed in the exoplanet’s atmosphere” lacks existential value and is more like a discussion about experimental methods among astronomers

one of my major accomplishments of the year gone by:

i could wrap my head about the Minty Hall problem and validate this comprehension via explanation to my family so they understood it too!

recently i’ve invested 30 euro in a cadence sensor, and oh boy, turns out, i was riding the wrong way all along!

now i’m gradually accustoming myself to ride on a higher rpm, aiming for 80-90

very different feeling, albeit a more pleasant one

riding in a bad weather scores extra points of badassery, but riding in a nice weather just feels about right

i can attest - lack of grit and/or talent to withstand these “incentives” was a major factor behind my shift from academia into industry

talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/10...

типа они бы и рады застраховаться, но нормальных условий получить не могут?

tell me more

it was a great joy to visit Dubrovnik and attend the ICEOS conference on extracorporeal organ support

our stuff is now available across the Balkans and Adriatics

this is the exact impression i get from the German cuisine - like these people have never overgrew their moms’ cooking style

i became a person who wakes up before 7:00 on vacation to rush a ghetto-gym

that’s a neat point - chlorofluorocarbons as biosignature of a technology-wielding civilisation

это правда

но здесь всё таки вопрос о плановом призыве молодёжи

или вот вчера много про результаты этого опроса писали

«да, очень надо стоять у станка

нет, сам я этим заниматься не стану»

мне кажется, это проявление общей закономерности, звучащей как «нашему обществу нужно затянуть пояса чтобы справиться с вызовами времени, но только пусть их затягивает кто-то другой»

вот например опрос о введении воинской повинности в Германии, старичьё поддерживает

www.ndr.de/ndrfragt/Umf...

ни одного живого человека не видел, который бы считал, что они должны быть выше

а все такие (немногочисленные), которых видел в интернете, выглядят как члены субкультуры

дай бог если так

не готов обесценивать этот тезис

а то небольшое количество местных работяг, с которыми мне удавалось пообщаться - и подавно

Yandex Finds everything

я поэтому был очень зол, прочитав вот такую историю

dzen.ru/a/ZSuk4tFB1g...

ну ладно, решил ты на налогах сэкономить, ноль осуждения

но ребёнка то за что обрекать на всё это

there was also less cruel (people were just fired, nobody was jailed or murdered), but still absolutely crazy campaign against idealistic theory of resonance which contradicted the proper materialistic view on chemical bond’s true nature

ok, so among 80 diverged genes the changes were introduced into… not even 20?

ok, that’s even funnier and gives a nice example how pronounced phenotypic differences can stem from changes in regulatory “non-coding” sequences

www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/08/1...

вот это конечно разъёб

but we actually can resurrect extinct entities from billions of years ago!

not the animals, but the enzymes

1) www.quantamagazine.org/biologists-i...

2) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...