Do you like chemistry? FINALLY!

hmm mushrooms as bricks? well that does take shrooming to a new whole level.


biodegradable??? dunno. doesn't sound like they'll last a long time. prolly good for temporary structures.

All interesting

females are more interesting. lol.

"Each species described has a link with details about the discovery. I've watched many a video on Richard Dawkins. The eminent Evolutionary Biologist. I'm not so keen on Astronomy. I like to keep it Earthly. But that's me. Natural Science, Biochemistry and Biology."

I think I may have purchased and read all of Richard Dawkins books. He is a very good writer who makes some very good points. Unfortunately Mr. Dawkins thinks he has the final answers on almost everything he talks about. There is no room for another opinion, just his: he is mostly right, but not always totally and completely right. He does loudly proclaim that he has the answers, and the only answers for every topic he brings up.

The real problem with Richard Dawkins is that he has become too much of an entertainer, and less of a scientist. He hasn't bothered with peer review.

Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review methods are used to maintain quality standards, improve performance, and provide credibility. In academia, scholarly peer review is often used to determine an academic paper's suitability for publication.

Could the COVID-19 vaccines impact menstruation? Experts discuss



https://www.today.com/today/amp/tdna214499

The experts hope that understanding this side effect will help people to be better prepared for heavier or earlier menstrual flow after their doses.

Island Gigantism and Dwarfism: Evolutionary “Island Rule” Confirmed


https://scitechdaily.com/island-giga...confirmed/amp/

It is an old-standing theory in evolutionary ecology: animal species on islands have the tendency to become either giants or dwarfs in comparison to mainland relatives. Since its formulation in the 1960s, however, the ‘island rule’ has been severely debated by scientists. In a new publication in Nature Ecology and Evolution on April 15, 2021, researchers solved this debate by analyzing thousands of vertebrate species.

Psilocybin: Magic mushroom compound 'promising' for depression


https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56745139.amp

People in the psilocybin treatment group also experienced fewer of the side-effects that often bother people taking SSRIs: drowsiness, sexual dysfunction and dry mouth.

They did have more of the transient symptoms, such as headaches on the day after receiving the drug, though.

And the experience of the "trip" itself was not easy, the study's co-author Prof David Nutt explained. "This is hard, hard work. It's often very challenging."

Somebody has to do it.

Flashback Friday: Psychedelic Pioneers—Who Turned On Whom? (1977)


https://hightimes.com/flashback-frid...-pioneers/?amp

A significant event of the early Sixties occurred when a seeker named Timothy Leary tripped out poolside in Cuernavaca, near Mexico City. His rational, symbolic mind took a vacation, and he resolved to dedicate the rest of his life to studying this new instrument. Having just been appointed to a lectureship in psychology at Harvard, Leary took it upon himself to initiate research into this with his graduate students. Thus was born the Harvard Psilocybin Project—which rapidly turned on hundreds of creative individuals, religious figures, convicts, psychologists and graduate students. Leary also turned Allen Ginsberg on to psilocybin, whereupon Ginsberg immediately tried to phone Jack Kennedy, Kerouac and Nikita Khrushchev (his three favorite Ks) to tell them about it.

8-year-old boy hospitalized after ingesting mother's LSD


https://mycbs4.com/amp/news/nation-w...ng-mothers-lsd

Medics rushed the boy to a Port Angeles hospital where deputies said he was conscious but wasn't able to respond to deputies attempts to ask him what happened. He was then flown to a Tacoma children's hospital for close monitoring by medical staff.

The mom later told detectives she had hidden the LSD in the freezer thinking it would be safe from her son. The drug had been in the freezer for about a year, she said.

Somebody likes chemistry.

CEO Of $2 Billion Startup Fired After Experimenting With LSD At Work


https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimam...h-lsd-at-work/

Silicon Valley has a long history with psychedelic drugs like LSD, with some of the country’s entrepreneurs citing them as a source of creativity. Both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have publicly acknowledged experimenting with LSD, with the late Apple co-founder describing taking the drug as “one of the most important things in my life.”

"Each species described has a link with details about the discovery. I've watched many a video on Richard Dawkins. The eminent Evolutionary Biologist. I'm not so keen on Astronomy. I like to keep it Earthly. But that's me. Natural Science, Biochemistry and Biology."

I think I may have purchased and read all of Richard Dawkins books. He is a very good writer who makes some very good points. Unfortunately Mr. Dawkins thinks he has the final answers on almost everything he talks about. There is no room for another opinion, just his: he is mostly right, but not always totally and completely right. He does loudly proclaim that he has the answers, and the only answers for every topic he brings up.

The real problem with Richard Dawkins is that he has become too much of an entertainer, and less of a scientist. He hasn't bothered with peer review.

Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review methods are used to maintain quality standards, improve performance, and provide credibility. In academia, scholarly peer review is often used to determine an academic paper's suitability for publication.

Originally Posted by JRLawrence

he sounds like an obnoxious ass hole. lol.

Island Gigantism and Dwarfism: Evolutionary “Island Rule” Confirmed


https://scitechdaily.com/island-giga...confirmed/amp/ Originally Posted by eccieuser9500

the dodo was a giant pigeon??? no shit.

he sounds like an obnoxious ass hole. lol. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

It might be the English accent with the enormous knowledge that makes him sound pretentious.

the dodo was a giant pigeon??? no shit. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

Islands and peninsulas develop peculiar species. Think, FLORIDA MAN!

https://www.universetoday.com/151058...spaghettified/



Posted on May 2, 2021 by Andy Tomaswick

Are we Seeing a Star That Just got Spaghettified?

Sometimes astronomers come up with awesome names for certain phenomena and then feel like they can’t use them in formal scientific contexts. Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are one of those – colloquially they are known as “spaghettifications” where a star is pulled apart until its constituent matter looks like a string of spaghetti.

Astronomers have long known of this process, which takes place when a star gets too close to a black hole, but most of that knowledge has come through studying radiation bursts emitted by the blackhole as it devoured the star. Now, a team led by Giacomo Cannizzaro and Peter Jonker from SRON, the Netherlands Institute for Space Research, and Radboud University now think they have captured the first glimpses of a star actively being spaghettified around the pole of a black hole.


An image of the accretion disk of the supermassive black hole as the center of M87.
Credit: EHT Collaboration

Those filaments of material have never been imaged before, as most images instances of an “accretion disk”, as the disks of material surrounding black holes are known, have been seen from edge on, meaning they appear as a band of material in front of the black hole, much as Saturn’s rings would appear if they were viewed edge on. What the SRON team did for the first time was capture information about the accreditation disk while looking at one of the poles of the black hole.

Accretion disks emit X-ray radiation, but do not do so edge-on, so when the SRON team saw that they had captured X-ray signatures in their spectra, they realized they were looking at the accretion disk of a black hole from a new perspective. That perspective would be like looking down at Saturn’s rings from far above the pole of the planet, finally be able to truly appreciate how many there are.

[Firestorm: there was supposed to be a video link to it but its broken at the site.]
UT Video describing the process of falling into a black hole.

And there truly are many strands of material wrapped around this observed black hole – the team captured separate absorption lines that would indicate there are multiple strings of material wrapped around the star multiple times. That ball of yarn pattern is similar to what would be expected to happen in a spaghettification process. Additionally, there was no Doppler shift in the data, indicating that the material was not rotating, again hinting at the underlying cause of the disk.

While the spectral data hasn’t yet been translated into a pretty picture for public consumption, it does put another feather in the cap of the TDE theory of how stars interact with black holes. Let’s hope astronomers can come up with some other unique names for more esoteric processes – doughification perhaps?

[Firestorm: there was supposed to be a video link to it but its broken at the site.]
UT Video describing the process of falling into a black hole.
Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm