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A very important question is one about questions themselves. Namely, how do you find better questions?
during summer: i can't wait for winter
during winter: i can't wait for summer
It's still so strange to me how apparently taboo it is to like a post on someone's Instagram from a month ago when there are posts still circulating on Tumblr from 1550 BCE
I worry that fake depictions of the middle ages are so pervasive that you couldn't even make an historically accurate one.
Art is like religion in that it represents something that is beyond the reach of empiricism. The element of fantasy is inextinguishable. Spinoza made the chief distinction that religion, unlike superstition, was founded on knowledge rather than ignorance. But what if, in stark contrast to things forged from knowledge, art is, at times, profoundly further from knowledge than it appears? And there, we might see that art isn't necessarily deep; it's just a mirror, and the mind is an abyss. Yes, I say this as someone who both appreciates and creates art. Criticizing art; classic artist move.
The Fertile Crescent
look at these glucose molecules, they're holding hands 😭
“On the use of the phrase ‘on the’ and the colon-delimited subtitle in academic papers: A meta-analysis”
Code that includes commented out code negatively impacts performance. Removing the commented out code improves performance. TFW you realize commented out code is being parsed and it's causing effects.
very convenient how the definition of “cultural christianity” includes everything and everyone when they’re assigning it to you but magically shrinks as soon as you try to criticize it
Completely sober in the club googling worst medieval executions
I remember Toonami. And Cowboy Bebop and Gundam Wing and Dragonball Z and Yu Yu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin at 3am. Anime reruns on the screen.
I love the way leveling works in so many games, like "shooting an arrow through my arm used to kill me, but I picked up a bunch of random things and brought them to random people and the experience was so rewarding that now a rocket-propelled grenade to the face is only a minor inconvenience"
rip mathematics prodigy theodore j. kaczynski, more known for other work
I know it's wrong but I hope she misses me too.
don't like trivia games. they're a test on everything you could possibly know (that is useless). don't respect a test that rewards breadth of life experience rather than ability to take a canonical set of materials and study the shit out of it. philosophically opposed to that
I totally understand why people don't want to live in subsidised housing, @isaacsapphire. It's for the same reason homeless people don't want to sleep in homeless shelters but under bridges. It's the same reason why suicidally depressed people don't want to be committed into a mental hospital with all the other mentally ill people.
The marginal guy from the fatter side of the tail does not want to be stuck with the guys from the far end of the distribution.
Like Freud, Lacan regards hysteria as one of the two main forms of neurosis, the other being obsessional neurosis. Whereas obsessional neurosis concerns the question of the subject's existence, hysteria concerns the question of the subject's sexual position. This question may be phrased "Am I a man or a woman?" or, more precisely, "What is a woman?" Lacan thus reaffirms the ancient view that there is an intimate connection between hysteria and femininity. Indeed, most hysterics are women, just as most obsessional neurotics are men. The structure of desire, as desire of the Other, is shown more clearly in hysteria than in any other clinical structure; the hysteric is precisely someone who appropriates another's desire by identifying with them.
oh look a WittgenSign 🧐
today i learnt that you can knock out large portions of a mouse's genome, and it can still bear children and live a long and healthy life
because large portions of the genome just do not do anything
TIL: early movable-type printers would store the normal letters in a case on a bottom shelf, and the capital letters in another case on a top shelf, and that’s where the terms “upper case” and “lower case” come from.
Macrophage Defector
Natural killer cells are a type of immune cell that protects the body against not only invading pathogens but also cancer, providing an innate defence against these rogue cells. Some tumours, however, keep natural kill cells at bay and thereby avoid destruction. And recent research in lung tumours reveals this natural killer cell exclusion is achieved with the help of another immune cell – the macrophage. The particular culprit is a type of macrophage covered in a protein called TREM2 – an anti-inflammatory factor. Shown above is a lung tumour (green) packed with TREM2-expressing macrophages (red) that are protecting the cancer from attack. Why these macrophages switch allegiance and side with enemy is unclear, but blocking TREM2 while boosting natural killer cell activity was shown to reduce lung tumour growth in mice suggesting a similar approach might be effective in promoting tumour regression in humans too.
Written by Ruth Williams
Image from work by Matthew D. Park and Ivan Reyes-Torres, and colleagues
Marc and Jennifer Lipschultz Precision Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
Image copyright held by the original authors
Research published in Nature Immunology, April 2023
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My spiraea bushes are having their last hurrah. They are starting to drop their tiny flower petals. See you next year.
Local man fond of linguistic garden path sentences friends to hearing his boring puns.
[…] the word can refer to sandwiches or cigars, surrounding context is required to disambiguate it.