@lmerlo.bsky.social !

This sent me down a rabbit hole. I love it that there are so many theories about stabilimenta - that they stop birds flying into webs, encourage prey to do so, help spiders locate where the prey lands, collect water, conserve heat... Only the spiders know.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Cool! Good for you!
I'd like to do an audiobook of my Watson. Think I could even read it myself.

This is me slack-jawed

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Since when are definitions and oxymorons incompatible?

Peter Falk is the One True Columbo in my book.

That's what I'm talkin' about: THIS is the kind of news I need more of.
"Suspected Lego conspiracy: film at 11 <caution: contains Dad jokes>"

I am convinced that, on average, Democrats understand statistics better than Republicans.

Yes!!

Hi there! What's cookin'?

perhaps that’s the reason “coercive diplomacy” is an oxymoron?

Nor I!
This seems promising

History is a common path to the law,
but i find that the more i history, the less i want to judge people. 🤔

#academicsky

19-Apr: ☹️ On this day in 1882,
Charles Darwin died, age 73.
Here’s the sad story…
https://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/darwin-dies/
#HistSci

My college's little medical humanities honors program just sent one alumni off to Harvard medical school, one grauating senior just got a Fulbright, and a host of others are off to grad school & medical school. If you weren't paying attention, you might miss the wonderful work that non-Ivies can do.

I still can't get past the phrase, "a high-level delegation including Vice President JD Vance."

sounds like she didn't miss a beet

Dafuq? In New Fucking York? I mean, anywhere, but srsly, New Fucking York?

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons - Sentinel Colorado "What's the point of me reading it if it's already correct anyway, and you didn't write it yourself? Could you produce it without your computer?" said Phelps.

Luddite pedagogy ♥️ sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorize...

I think it's v imp that #eugenics critics not fall into the deterministic trap ourselves. The kinds of traits these clowns are talking about just aren't that genetic. And what is, is likely the most boring part, eg "being a neuron" & "making a neurotransmitter."

The image is of of Herb Block ("Herblock")'s 1955 cartoon, showing various planets scattered about space. One of them -- Earth -- bears a large sign saying "Albert Einstein Lived Here."

Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955. This cartoon by Herb Block ("Herblock") was published in the Washington Post the following day (and I've gotten into the habit of posting it every year #OTD). #Einstein #science #histsci

On the west coast, it's an absolute Beer Enlightenment!

Watson simplified Crick's CD into his own "DNA makes RNA makes protein" (1952). MBG was so widely used that a whole generation came up mistakenly thinking an RT was impossible—including John Tooze, the author of the article!

An exasperated Crick then clarified:

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I appreciate the friendly explanations of this really cool bit of science. I was making perhaps an overly obscure reference to Nature's reaction to reverse transcriptase in 1970:

The idea that RT violated Crick's Central Dogma stems from an error in Watson's Mol Bio of the Gene (1965).

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Amazing!

Last night I had a Troeg's Double Nugget Nectar, from PA (9.5% ABV), that can stand proud next to anything out of Belgium.

Not Catholic meself, but I guess what I'm advocating is craft Catholicism. Micro-brew Catholicism. Small-batch Catholicism.

#warblers !!

heard my first northern parula today, woohoo! Usu the first warbler we get roun these parts in the great spring migration.

let the onslaught of bouncy, musical, feathered, multi-colored pingpong balls begin!

Central Dogma Reversed?!?

@matthewcobb.bsky.social !!

"Enough, already!"
-- the Ghost of Oliver Wendell Holmes