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Epigenetic inheritance of acquired traits via stem cells dedifferentiation/differentiation or transdifferentiation cycles - the Node Do cells carry memories of the whole body into the next generation? For more than two millennia, biologists and philosophers have debated whether traits

🧪 Epigenetic inheritance of acquired traits via stem cells dedifferentiation/differentiation or transdifferentiation cycles by Arshak Alexanian
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Hi readers, happy Monday! My beloved Seattle Seahawks won Super Bowl LX last night, and Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny put on a stunning halftime show. My colleague Izzie Ramirez wrote about the eight most striking moments from his unapologetically American performance:

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5 of many Deeper Meanings in Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show

Phenomenal #SuperBowl halftime show from Bad Bunny.

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Steve Jobs Made 12 Predictions in 1990. They Just Came True. The “Lost Interview” wasn’t about computers. It was a blueprint for the AI era and the death of traditional management.

Read “Steve Jobs Made 12 Predictions in 1990. They Just Came True.“ by Shane Collins on Medium: medium.com/activated-th...

🧪🙏 Loss of hunger hormone may be key to snakes’ mastery of fasting

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) in SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) Good news The first vaccine designed to target the entire SARS virus family, GBP511, has entered human clinical trials. Developed by UW Medicine and brought to trial by SK Bioscience, it aims to p...

🧪🙏Good news- the first #vaccine targeting the entire SARS family - not just covid-19- has entered human clinical trials —
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Photo of Prime Minister Carney at a podium at a grocery store in Ottawa, Ontario. A headline from the Toronto Star is edited on top: Carney announces GST rebate boost to counter high cost of groceries.

The new Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit will put hundreds of dollars more into the bank accounts of over twelve million Canadians.

Baturday

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

BREAKING: Trump approval drops 42 percent from January to December Trump’s net approval rating fell by a stunning 42 points from January to December, a drop so severe that Enten compared the president to a deep sea dive. Share this widely so everyone knows how far T...

BREAKING: Trump approval drops 42 percent from January to December
Trump’s net approval rating fell by a stunning 42 points from January to December, a drop so severe that Enten compared the president to a deep sea dive. rawstory.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Democrats propose state laws to limit ICE after Minneapolis shooting of Renee Good

Something not political!!

I am so excited to go welcome the monks during their Walk for Peace tomorrow! They will be walking right near my house, on the way to Charlotte.
Texas to Washington DC. What amazing dedication, just trying to spread some peace and love in this insane world 🙏☮️

There's more to life than being happy Our culture is obsessed with happiness, but what if there's a more fulfilling path? Happiness comes and goes, says writer Emily Esfahani Smith, but having meaning in life -- serving something beyond y...

This Ted talk is excellent- 15 million views and counting Author of “The Power of Meaning” , Emily Esfahani Smith 🧪📚🙏🌏
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BREAKING: New York City is flooded with peaceful anti-ICE protests and it’s driving the right insane. They needed riots. They needed excuses. Instead they got Americans calmly rejecting authoritarian bullshit in the streets.

Ocean science in action: How Indigenous Knowledge advances ocean science across the world - Ocean Decade In this article, we showcase how the Ocean Decade amplifies Indigenous and local ocean stewardship.

🧪 How indigenous knowledge advances ocean science across the world 🙏🌎🌍🌏 oceandecade.org/news/ocean-s...

An Act of Cosmic Sabotage How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions

🧪🙏 An Act of Cosmic Sabotage www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

New study out in Systematics and Biodiversity!

Achatz 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2025) report the phylogeny and systematics of diplostomids (Digenea: Diplostomidae) from passeriform and cuculiform birds in South America.

Read the full study here: buff.ly/GBLlSOl #Taxonomy #Parasite #Biodiversity #Systematics

Nicely summarised!! Thank you 👍
On an old and unsuccessful official project I tried to evolve NNs using genetic evolution.
More recently on my own, I took 2 weeks to get the evolution working - but only because it took so long to write the perceptron print-outs!
NNs evolve very nicely.

What the KENNEDY Center used to be…

Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.

Bees are directly responsible for vital contributions to 70% the of fruits, vegetables seeds and nuts that we consume on a daily basis.

#savebees #savenature #savehumanity #biodiversity #farming #agriculturalproduction #foodconsumption #educational #awareness | Dr.Geetha Plackal #savebees #savenature ##savehumanity #biodiversity #farming #agriculturalproduction #foodconsumption #educational #awareness

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Functional Similarities (Architectural Analogy)
Hierarchical Information Processing: Just as an MLP uses hidden layers to transform raw inputs into complex features, biological gene regulatory networks (GRNs) use layers of transcription factors to integrate signals.

The organizational phenotypic effects of layered, interdependent transcription factors (TFs) are functionally analogous to a multilayered perceptron (MLP) in how they process information, though the underlying mechanisms of "training" differ significantly.

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Yup - it's not just about protein coding. It's clear from the ENCODE project results that 90% or more of evolution in general -not just of cognition- is done by genes regulating each other. It's so neatly managed now that the network looks just like a 3-layer perceptron:

🧪 Scientists are learning more about higher levels of emergent interactions between transcription factors- is this a new 🔑 to understanding both primitive and sentient cognition phenotypes in animal neuroscience?