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Posts by Jim Smoot, PhD

Great to see an extraterrestrial GC-MS plot get published!

FWIW, our go to internal standard was C19FAME. C9/C9FAME is too volatile as they discovered😁

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I wonder who could be propagating these lies.....
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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69. The illegal tariffs essentially ended up being a way to transfer money directly from consumers to producers while damaging the economy and collecting mo tax revenue.

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Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

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Cool, thanks for the thread! I don’t have access to the full paper. What is the current understanding/speculation as to how this is anti-phage? When I see poly-AC, I think of Gary Janssen and his leaderless mRNA work. Could this be some sort of interference mechanism?

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I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

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Setting malicious intent aside, is there another reason for a setback other than to minimize visual impacts? If not, add a shrub/tree line or fence requirement to the ordinance as an alternative to the setback.

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Just came across this from yesterday. It requires a subscription to read the article, but it looks like a model ordinance that partially meets all interests.

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There should be. It would make the Farm Bureau talking point moot or potentially flip them.

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Does this include agrivoltaics or was the ordinance written specifically for utility-scale projects?

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My Allbirds shoes telling me to kill myself

My Allbirds shoes telling me to kill myself

Dammit it’s already happening

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The responses to this post are like pre-X / Twitter level LMAO snark. Omg. Gold.

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Externalities may be random (asteroids; solar activity) and systematic (moon spinning away; sun aging), life changed in response to both these and internal pressures, so Gaia changed and aged/developed in response, which would suggest limited utility of Gaia as Lovelock envisioned as I recall. 3/3

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The counter argument was ecosystem developed in response to stochastic events. Neither holds up particularly well under scrutiny. Certainly, there are larger biogeochem systems that drive environmental determinant dimensions of ecosystems, but there are also externalities with profound impacts 2/3

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Looks fun. Too many years and cobwebs since my required philosophy courses at Xavier (4 semesters along with 4 semesters of theology was core requirement back in the day) to comment on the philosophical aspects of this, but it reminds me of the papers that argued ecosystems are cybernetic. 1/2ish.

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Not tonight endless scream, not tonight.

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Scoop: Microsoft Is Pausing Carbon Removal Purchases The tech giant had been by far the nascent industry’s biggest customer.

MSFT *is* the carbon removal market, so if this is anything more than a brief pause, it's a v. big deal & v. bad news for an already shaky sector.

via @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social

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Bad news for the gatekeepers who just lost their gate.

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Yeah, leadership experience in the private sector is more valuable than US Rep experience imo. But, yet another billionaire, even if he’s a “good one”, isn’t thrilling; but I’m left waiting to see what the late polls show and going from there. Bottom line is not to get both Rs due to split D field.

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Bummer, another off my list. I can’t vote for porter either. No executive experience; and if a she couldn’t manage a legislator’s office, she isn’t going to do well in the governor’s office. I’m not thrilled by a billionaire either. Becerra was my first choice, but he hasn’t broken through. So 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Six seven is not a trivial adolescent fad; rather it’s a deep expression of youth’s existential uncertainty about the future, their place in the universe, and whether time heals all wounds or an elephant actually never forgets.

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I have driven by this several times.

1500 acres for Meta north of 32, 800 for Eli Lilly south of 32. It does seem quite large.

Its funny to me she calls it BFE since it is 20 miles closer to Indy than I am. It's the NW corner of the metro.

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lol, a few thoughts:
1) I haven’t heard BFE in years!😂
2) Her accent is priceless—reminds me of my cousins.
3) she needs to drive by strip mines…
4) KY hill topped mines have a thin line of trees along the highway to mask their activity—these projects should do the same.

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Swap out the tomatoes and lettuce with a couple slices of goetta and you have a real sandwich.😁

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lol, reminds me of the time we caught an oversized frog in herpetology class. Prof stuck his fingers down its throat and pulled out a crayfish—very much still alive and quite peeved about being eaten!

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Lots of opportunity for vertical bifacial solar in UP. It would provide additional source of income for a lot of people who otherwise don’t make much. Monsoon floods need to be considered though.

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local woman discovers the Sun

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This, and no tax on tips, was very obviously bad policy from the get go.

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Sorry to read this. I had a scan rescheduled 2x after original appointment was canceled due to similar issue. The 2° attempt was canceled b/c insurance approval elapsed 1 day prior to the appointment, so I had to get my doc resubmit the order. It’s probably worth confirming that won’t happen to you.

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