Laurence Pearl 🔥

SWP is very much the bindweed of British left politics.

And very relaxed about their leadership sexually abusing women members

I used to have a friend who was in the SWP.

This is (apart from the bit about the internet) exactly what he believed.

It's actually a deeply patronising, very middle-class, very rose tinted student-Marxist view of working people that is completely divorced from any experience of life.

You see this stuff and you think to yourself “why does no politician in Britain want to copy the proven German model of having union representation in the boardroom?”

Instead we still have this failed East German ideology still being trotted out by the Crank Left.

When even Owen Jones looks like he's struggling to keep a straight face you might have gone too far left.

Seize the memes of production

No. It’s little girl in her bedroom lecturing an assortment of dolls and teddies level

chart of child mortality in history, roughly 48% for all societies across the globe…until the 20th century, where it plummets to 4%

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A woman wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with a bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a headscarf on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

2 December 1889 | A Polish woman, Maria Mnich, was born in Udrycze.

In #Auschwitz from 13 December 1942.
No. 26973
She perished in the camp on 21 April 1943.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

Thank science.
All to be undone by ignorant politicians...

Nobody who ever visited Soviet Eastern Europe would advocate such a stupid idea.

You never know where a good idea is going to come from!

Inspiration struck Prof Michael Baum on new ways of thinking about #BreastCancer treatment while watching a production of Arcadia by the late Tom Stoppard

Thanks to @harrywallop.co.uk for sharing this from the @thetimes.com

#CanSky #OncoSky

The new website for the world renowned Genome Damage and Stability Centre at Sussex is now up and running. Enjoy -
www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

Black and white portrait of a woman with a calm expression, wearing a dark blouse and hair styled in an updo.

A vintage black and white photo of a young girl standing in front of a wooden fence with lush foliage in the background. She is wearing a dress and a bow in their hair, and is smiling at the camera.

1 December 1942 | A transport of 532 Norwegian Jews deported from Bergen arrived at #Auschwitz. SS doctors sent 186 men to be registered in the camp. The remaining 346 people were murdered in a gas chamber.

Among them were Olga Wulff and her daughter Doris.

Read this, in honor of a theatrical genius and one of their inspirations

David Baltimore obituary: virologist whose enzyme discovery transformed understanding of cancer and HIV/AIDS The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

The world has lost a giant of virology, molecular biology and science advocacy

David Baltimore’s obituary by Stephen Goff www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Any protein crystallographer will tell you that almost any concentrated pure protein in isolation in a simple buffer can be made to phase separate in vitro. It’s an artefact.

Not mixed up by anyone who actually knows anything about protein biochemistry

liquid-like or gel-like molecular organization does not mean it is formed through LLPS. The phenomenon and the mechanism have been often mixed up in the scientific community and literature.

The best analogy is traffic on a motorway. Viewed on the average, traffic ‘macroscopically’ behaves like a viscous liquid, but only an idiot - or apparently the editor of a journal - would think that means that cars ‘microscopically’ are driven by fluid mechanics

Only in the same way that a flat earth and Kepler’s Laws are not mutually exclusive

If it can be disrupted by a point mutation in a residue mediating a stereospecific PPI - ITS NOT LLPS - ITS REAL BIOCHEMISTRY FFS.

Aargh

Orange picture with a line drawing of a horses face on a man’s upper body showing a part of a jacket and glimpse of a man’s face. Also a large red blob middle right.

Marc Chagall just popping by to wish you a happy Sunday morning.

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#LLPS #Droplets #phaseseparation

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

30 November 1892 | A Pole, Jan Guzik, was born in Boguchwała. A gardener.

In #Auschwitz from 13 April 1942.
No. 29546
He perished in the camp on 30 June 1942.
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"Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

I couldn’t possibly comment

Looks like we're for it again at Christmas. Twice.

Several newspapers are mourning the death of "Shakespeare in Love screenwriter Tom Stoppard" which, while technically true, is very much on the level of "Thomas The Tank Engine narrator Ringo Starr".

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Learning from Stoppard By Mike Fitzgerald, June 13, 2016 Comparing two drafts of a script can be hugely instructive, revealing point-by-point how a writer went about improving the story. When I stumbled upon an earlier draft of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, I discovered a dazzling, glittering trove of lessons as nourishing as eternal life itself. Well, nearly so. Last Crusade was written by Jeffrey Boam, from a story by George Lucas and Menno Meyjes. So say the opening credits. Boam’s final draft, dated March 1, 1988 (ten weeks before production) differs drastically from the published script which reflects the released version of the film. Differences come as no shock, but with Last Crusade they aren’t just a few deleted scenes and some line changes. Whole sections of the Boam draft were reimagined, major set pieces were added, and the pacing and tone were markedly transformed. Whoever made these changes possessed a profound grasp of story craft. Screenshot from https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade-learning-from-stoppard/

Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.

It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...