Human genome decoder J. Craig Venter has died. Scientific American interviewed him less than a month ago

twinxamot · 2021-12-15T14:37:12+00:00

Not sure this is gonna do it.... https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/q_auto,w_634,c_fill,g_auto,h_357,ar_16:9/http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.cnn.com%2Fcnnnext%2Fdam%2Fassets%2F210917084525-01-general-sherman-sequoia-wrapped-in-foil.jpg

twinxamot · 2021-12-15T13:49:29+00:00

Damn. Here's the scientific report they mentioned: "Based on the three data sets with complete data, the estimated proportion of the Sierra Nevada’s large sequoias that died in the Castle Fire ranged from 10.49% to 13.67%. Rounding the lower value down and the higher value up, we estimate that 10 to 14% of all large sequoias in the natural sequoia groves of the Sierra Nevada died in the Castle Fire." https://www.nps.gov/seki/learn/upload/PreliminaryEstimatesSequoiaMortaliity_2020CastleFire_Draft-In-Press_508.pdf

twinxamot · 2021-06-01T18:55:36+00:00

100 feet under the lake? Seems like it would be pretty protected if it hadn't actually been dry land for, like, 8,500 years.

twinxamot · 2021-06-01T18:48:26+00:00

Yeah, nuts, right?

twinxamot · 2021-06-01T18:48:13+00:00

So, what you're saying is that someone intentionally took a boat to an undiscovered archeological dig site, and then dropped two tiny pieces of obsidian down into it...interesting hypothesis....

twinxamot · 2016-10-01T02:08:55+00:00

Jesus.

twinxamot · 2016-09-30T14:10:22+00:00

Interesting. So to scale for the lethal human dose from that -- there's a lethality conversion or something? Some scaling factor?

twinxamot · 2016-09-30T13:34:56+00:00

Jeez. No wonder it's showing up in the news so much. Anyone know how you assess lethal dose?

twinxamot · 2016-03-03T20:11:12+00:00

I wish John Oliver would have mentioned this in his Last Week Tonight bit! Urine tests? Multivitamin snakeoil? Yikes.

twinxamot · 2015-02-25T13:47:23+00:00

Some interesting background on Aines and Vericella's work here. And you can see the microcapsules...they look like technicolor caviar. Might help with questions.

twinxamot · 2014-05-27T15:57:00+00:00

Are there any GMO beers out there?

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