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My grandpappy told me that if you want a good crop of pawpaws you have to hang a dead cat in the tree. I think dead cats were in greater supply back in his day. Fascinating flowers…

That is super cool. Unfortunately I cannot access the original article to see the methodology, but they mention using a system that can track individual ants in a colony of ~100. I…

Thanks, I was trying to recall that article. Fascinating stuff to this non-expert.

Interesting story. The lack of dramatization might have something to do with making Nazis sympathetic characters. Hogans Heroes aside.

Poor Billie’s snoot! Glad you are such a caring owner. Please consider the nickname “Tycho Brahe” for her.

Perhaps tangentially related: The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals. A nice treatise on laws under which various animals have been tried in court. https://www.…

Thanks for that, super interesting about sieches. A standing wave not directly from the moon or waves.From the wiki: Lake seiches can occur very quickly: on July 13, 1995, a large …

As pointed out above me, 250-300 micrograms is what you likely meant. You might have to hunt for such low doses. I split a 1 mg tab in quarters. Repeated studies have shown that th…

Trying to wrap my head around the term "cultural practitioner", even after looking it up. Don't we all transmit our culture?

I think the style is intended to evoke the way the story developed at the time, as drips of new information came in on the news. I stuck with it and am happy with that decision.

I do not feel like the author's profile is going to change your mind on that: https://medium.com/@macvsogjc/about

For anyone interested in the therapeutic (or otherwise) use of ketamine, I strongly recommend the autobiography of John Lilly, the neuroscientist who developed the sensory deprivat…

Besides the achiral glycerol mentioned in the article, some bacteria subsist on methane. That is also non-chiral and in large quantity in petroleum and under the sea.

Yes. Some bacteria have D-amino acids (such as D-alanine) as part of their cell walls (which otherwise contain almost entirely L-amino acids). D-amino acids are also sometimes inco…

They say in the article that capillary action draws the coffee along the narrow edge. This is aided by surface tension, just like how water is drawn into a capillary tube.

Doctor-chemist here. You are correct. The carbon-fluorine bond is very inert to metabolism. Ingested Teflon would be almost entirely eliminated unchanged. Takes pretty harsh condit…

Besides the well-known opioid peptides, such as the endorphins, the opiate morphine itself is endogenously produced in humans as a signaling molecule. This was a controversial and …

This demonstrates that placebo analgesia is actually activating the opioidergic pathway.

I wonder about the dosage you might’ve been taking. Many, many people take much more than needed, and higher doses are more likely to have adverse effects. 250-300 µg is an appropr…

Note that a number of well-known drugs violate Lipinski's rules. For instance, digoxin is absorbed by transporters and violates 2 rules. Atorvastatin is another famous example (aga…

That is an interesting implied addendum. However, there still seems to be an acknowledged favor granted, while the French and Spanish phrases I understand to mean that no favor was…