Bioelectrical domain walls in homogeneous tissues - New software for modeling embryonic morphogenesis (unpaywalled)
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Foodcommons - A ground breaking system to scale local food and restore our commonwealth
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Thinking Like A Forest: A Design Agenda for Bioregions - talk by John Thackara (2015)
Regenerative City - talk by John Thackara at Tongji University (2018)
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Peak Late Capitalism
Melania Trump defends work on White House tennis pavilion as coronavirus spreads (CNN)
"I encourage everyone who chooses to be negative (and) question my work at the White House to take time and contribute something good (and) productive in their own communities"
CPAC attendee tested positive for coronavirus
CPAC speakers included President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.
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This study reviewed 147 life cycle studies, with 28 found suitable for harmonizing food waste management methods’ climate and energy impacts. A total of 80 scientific soil productivity studies were assessed to rank management method soil benefits. Harmonized climate impacts per kilogram of food waste range from −0.20 kg of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) for anaerobic digestion (AD) to 0.38 kg of CO2e for landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE).
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Can Compost Draw Down Carbon? - by Sally Brown
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Perpetua Mobilia Patent: Motionless electromagnetic generator (US6362718B1)
An electromagnetic generator without moving parts includes a permanent magnet and a magnetic core including first and second magnetic paths. A first input coil and a first output coil extend around portions of the first magnetic path, while a second input coil and a second output coil extend around portions of the second magnetic path.
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Committing to climate-neutrality by 2050: Commission proposes European Climate Law and consults on the European Climate Pact (EU Comission)
On 4 March 2020 the European Commission has opened the first round of feedback regarding two new legislative proposals aimed at tackling carbon emissions and taxation of certain fuels. The proposals are planned to materialize into European Directives by mid 2021.
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The Human Genome Is Full of Viruses - The body requires viruses, viruses don’t require a body.
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Is Davos More Than a Boondoggle? (2020)
A Study has examined whether attending Davos actually creates value for the companies that send their executives there. Summary: It does not.
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Aum Shinrikyo: The intersection of Cult, Bio-Terror, PSI and Madness
"Asahara recruited scientists more actively than he did any other group. His enthousiasm about science undoubtedly was connected with his lust for murderous weapons. But the guru also wished to consider himself a scientist and once declared, "A religion which cannot be scientifically proven is fake." He was especially interested in brainwaves and claimed that by studying them Aum could establish a scientific basis for the stages of spiritual attainment described by past Buddhist saints. With the help of Hideo Murai, his chief scientist, Aum introduced the use of a headset that purportedly contained the guru's brainwaves, which it transmitted to the disciple in a procedure known as the "perfect salvation initiation" (or PSI). The PSI, much revered in Aum, was meant to bring about the desired "cloning" of the guru by means of technology and science. There was also a strong element of science fiction in the PSI and other Aum projects, much of it actively fed by television. What took shape in Aum was a blending of science, occultism, and science fiction, with little distinction between the fictional and the actual." (via)
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Magnetic Monopole Noise (Nature, 2019) (unpaywalled)
Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical elementary particles with quantized magnetic charge. [...] Here we report the development of a SQUID-based flux noise spectrometer and measurements of the frequency and temperature dependence of magnetic-flux noise generated by Dy2Ti2O7 crystals. We detect almost all of the features of magnetic-flux noise predicted for magnetic monopole plasmas7,8, including the existence of intense magnetization noise and its characteristic frequency and temperature dependence.
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The Wu experiment was a nuclear physics experiment conducted in 1956 by the Chinese American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. The experiment's purpose was to establish whether or not conservation of parity, which was previously established in the electromagnetic and strong interactions, also applied to weak interactions. If P-conservation were true, a mirrored version of the world would behave as the mirror image of the current world.
Related: Tsung-Dao Lee, Yang Chen-Ning - #Science
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"Forcing ideas through a small aperture can give them any shape, like pasta."
- Ted Nelson (1990)
