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New Clues to Chemical Origins of Metabolism at Dawn of Life


https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-c...life-20201012/

Because the TCA cycle feeds into so many vital processes in even the simplest cells, scientists suspect it was one of the early reactions to establish itself in the prebiotic soup. To reconstruct how it evolved, biochemists have generally tried to work backward by replacing the eight enzymes involved in the modern TCA cycle with transition metals, since those can act as catalysts for many reactions and should have been abundant. But the transition metals often failed to produce the desired intermediary molecules, or catalyzed their breakdown as fast as they made them, and the metals typically needed high temperatures or other extreme conditions to work.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...-using-rockets

It's important to note that modern nuclear weapons do use insensitive conventional explosives, which are highly resistant to going off accidentally due to shock or fire, to trigger an actual atomic reaction. However, an accident on the road involving one of these trucks still runs the risk of damaging the weapons and sending nuclear material, explosives, and other potentially hazardous material flying. The same general concerns apply if the truck is simply carrying a load of nuclear material by itself.

Off topic a little.

But in my wheelhouse.

Mario Molina, Nobel-winning Mexican chemist who made key climate change finding, dies at 77


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...imate-n1242607
Originally Posted by eccieuser9500

thats a big time fraud!!!

thats a big time fraud!!! Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

Yep and an oxymoron

thats a big time fraud!!! Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

No. He's actually dead, you moron.

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John H. Reagan, US Senator, CSA Postmaster Gen.


https://www.geni.com/people/John-H-R...00015403782152


John Henninger Reagan was a pussy who flipped out when he couldn't do two weeks in jail without writing a letter that contradicted his convictions. When he returned to Palestine he was hailed a false hero. 1 [Although Cincinnatus has long been considered a heroic representation of the virtuous Roman citizen, there are some historians who doubt the story altogether, claiming it to be nothing more than a myth.]





Backstory: One low-income school in Oak Cliff bears the name of a Confederate leader


https://oakcliff.advocatemag.com/201...derate-leader/

Of particular interest in the article is the following somewhat self-contradicting statement:

While imprisoned, he wrote a letter to his fellow Texans imploring them to recognize the authority of the United States, to renounce secession and slavery, and to extend the “elective franchise” to former slaves. If not, he warned, the U.S. would take military action against Texas, and black people would be given the vote.

So John H. Reagan urged giving black people the vote to avoid giving black people the vote? J.H. Reagan in his memoirs was very clear about his warning stating that he urged:

… that we should give … give to the negroes the protection of the laws, and at least a qualified right to vote in elections. That by acceding to this we might avoid the establishment of military government and universal negro suffrage.

Reagan was Vice-President and member of the Committee on Resolutions of the Conservative State Convention of 1868 in Houston.

John H. Reagan: Unionist or Secessionist?

By January 15, 1861, hope for a settlement between the North and the South within the Union had faded from Reagan's public pronouncements. In a speech on the floor of the House, the Texas congressman warned his Republican colleagues that as a result of their failure to compromise, few southern states, if any, would remain in the Union after Lincoln's inauguration on March 4. Again he asserted that bondage provided the best possible life for the inferior blacks and urged the Republicans to consider the consequences of abolition. Would northerners, he asked, "accept negroes as freemen and citizens" in their states? A raucous. "No! No!," reverberated through the chamber as Reagan proceeded, "yet you demand of us to liberate them ... to dissolve society and to break up social order, to ruin our commercial and political prospects for the future, and still to retain such an element among us."

Fake nerd.

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9500- must have been one helluva bender

forbidden topics. perseveration, ongoing trolling - and on and on and On!

there is help - Rehab!!!

Hey oeb11, save the schoolyard bully act for the Political Forum.

Your personal attacks are unwelcome here.

Hey oeb11, save the schoolyard bully act for the Political Forum.

Your personal attacks are unwelcome here. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

That's funny. He told me basically the same thing a while ago in a different forum.

Stalking much these days oebbie?

Triggered much - OBLM acolytes???
Guess what - neither u nor yr.hh/ multiple handles are Mods!
So Sorry!

Scientists make digital breakthrough in chemistry that could revolutionize the drug industry


https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/24/how-...-industry.html

MIT is collaborating with more than a dozen chemical and pharmaceutical companies to advance its molecule-predicting algorithms, and some companies have already put the software to use. Juan Alvarez, the Assistant Vice President of computational and structural chemistry at Merck, says that Conley's machine learning algorithm is one of a variety of chemistry prediction tools that the company has made available to its internal researchers. "It's absolutely being deployed to impact our timeline today," he says.

A Chinese Database Is Tracking American Nuclear Scientists and Military Officers


https://www.popularmechanics.com/tec...tists-nuclear/

Australian Financial Review

AFR says one key exposure point for this information has been LinkedIn, where many people list key terms about their work, even if the work itself is sensitive or secret. “Such disclosures appear equally common for those who served on U.S. nuclear submarines,” AFR reports. “Christopher Turoski is tagged for his time on the USS Georgia, an Ohio-class submarine, and for directing complex reactor plant maintenance. The database notes his current job running a nuclear power plant in Florida.”

AFR explains:

“The Washington Post, which was given access to a version of the Zhenhua database along with the Financial Review, has reported that US Navy vessels like the USS Dwight Eisenhower and super carrier the USS Nimitz were tagged with ID numbers on the database, against which social media posts were logged.”

AI Solves 50-Year-Old Biology 'Grand Challenge' Decades Before Experts Predicted


https://www.sciencealert.com/ai-solv...erts-predicted

The system, which was trained up by analysing a databank of approximately 170,000 protein structures, brought its unique skillset to this year's CASP challenge, called CASP14, achieving a median score in its predictions of 92.4 GDT (Global Distance Test).

That's above the ~90 GDT threshold that's generally considered to be competitive with the same results obtained via experimental methods, and DeepMind says its predictions are only off by about 1.6 angstroms on average (about the width of an atom).

Psilocybin Treatment for Mental Health Gets Legal Framework


https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...gal-framework/

The potential benefits of psilocybin, LSD and other psychedelics were widely explored by psychiatrists in the 1950 and 1960s, before such drugs leaked from the lab and were embraced by the counterculture. A subsequent backlash led to a strict prohibition of legitimate research for the next four decades. But in recent years, a handful of dogged psychiatrists have revived the field. A Johns Hopkins 2006 double-blind study (meaning neither trial participants nor researchers knew if a subject was receiving psilocybin or placebo), published in the journal Psychopharmacology, demonstrated that psilocybin could give healthy volunteers “experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning.”