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Nice. This part was especially interesting: > “When we react phosphite, a form of phosphorus that naturally occurs in hydrothermal vents, with organic compounds, we get metabolic p…

Interesting, however that was 1966: > the explosive was detonated at a depth of 1,500 m (1,640 yd) on 30 September 1966. The hole that the explosive was lowered into had also been …

Interestingly (well to me) this is also how some ion channels in cells work - the solvation shell (water cage) allows protein pores to distinguish between sodium and potassium. Not…

Perhaps also vary the bird? Wikipedia tells me pelicans are in the order _Pelecaniformes_ so shoebills or herons might do.

Reminds me of an interview I saw at the height of the NFT/crypto craze, when the interviewee was challenged to come up with a use-case, and they threw out "buying a house". So ther…

A good music track does not _need_ a video, but some videos definitely can enhance the music or are just amazing by themselves. 'Sabotage' by the Beastie Boys (Spike Jones), 'Hunte…

If I was feeling unfair I would say there is no difference! However, if a friend drew me an eye on A3 paper would I frame it? Probably yes... Others have said this better, but art …

Interesting, so the 'pure vision' of the director can remain unsullied by the inept crew, huh? :) More seriously, it reminds me of a video I was watching yesterday about a tabletop…

I partly agree with you - I used to think of mechanical difficulty as a kind of 'proof of work' for art. Nowadays I am less interested in the idea of what counts as art or not. How…

The only solution? Answer the phone in an over the top comedy accent, such as Simpsons characters, or just whatever comes to mind.

Well, confusingly, the last picture on the blogpost look (to my untrained eye) to be tetrapods. Those are 'tetrahedral' (ish) shapes. In contrast, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

Interesting point - usually people approach the question "who draws the tiger" from the other end. As in, the assumption is (not unreasonably!) the genAI is doing all the work and …

Of course, now the question the boy in the article asked - "where does the Tiger come from?" - could be answered with "the prompt". The arguments today are whether a prompt like "d…

I see that I was unclear - I did not mean "the law goes along with this, and I don't know why?" I meant "I do not understand why Sov. Cit. would believe that the law would agree to…

A very clear example of this is the 'Sovereign Citizen', who have bizarre beliefs around how to interact with courts. As far as I understand it, there are some 'cheat codes' people…

I suspect Sandi Toksvig, one of the hosts of QI. One of the 'success' messages is "quite interestng!". No offence mean to anyone, but the whole exercise feels very QI : superficial…

That's actually a feature that washing machines have had for a while - "generative washing" - it is where the extra odd socks come from.

I recently bought the book 'Watch Repair for Beginners' for reference (a project I slightly unwisely agreed to do). It has some great diagrams, but obviously nothing on these inter…

I meant metallocenes in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallocene A metal atom sandwiched between two Cp rings. You _can_ model this as 5 single bonds between each atom of…

There is a lot of graph theory in Chemistry - modelling chemicals as (vertex/edge coloured) graphs, reaction networks, etc. Of course some molecules (eg aromatic systems, like ferr…

You got me. Usually I read them. edit: Huh. Actually not a bad read. It even mentions ' On Growth and Form' which is interesting, if outdated. There are more modern texts like 'Sha…

Surface area to volume ratio?

A very reasonable question, that I don't have an immediate concrete answer to! Apparently I upvoted this question in the past (found it by searching for an answer - no AI, like the…

That would be difficult - a metabolic map is a diagram showing the known reactions. At any point in time, only a subset of these will be active. Like a road map - at midnight, only…