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To date no culprit has been identified but let's assume the Russians 'did it'. Can somebody please lay out the tangible benefits for Russia in conducting such an operation and how the s…

And the list of those authoritarians is very long indeed. None of them would want to be left behind.

Good point. Within organisms there are a number of survival mechanisms even in juveniles. Braitenberg hypothesized simple mechanical vehicles that evolved survival tactics. Not understanding the latte…

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Erwin Chargaff himself a chemist, knew very well the proportion of the bases in DNA since he'd discovered it but didn't put two and two together (Chargaff's ratio). https://w…

Apart from the amusement that might be had in making it, you never know if further evidence might one day cast new light on it.

Actually lots of people are now talking about the problem of too few babies especially in Europe. Many countries are looking to their populations halving by 2100. A recent report says there are 79 cou…

No doubt you've dispassionately gone out of your way to assesss that evidence and after detailed examination decided it's invalid. Which would be a perfectl reasonable step to make - if that…

That's just rude.

'There is no law forbidding the monarch from not granting Royal Assent'. True but I await the day that happens! The Brits don't go in for revolution but there'd be all hell to pay …

Completely agree having fed ChatGPT with a number of PDFs of recent papers in the biological sciences. Of course chatGPT is a terrific achievement but I wonder how a journalist in a serious weekly can…

Important also to consider the degree to which we choose (while improving our own environment) to get others to pollute on our behalf and suffer the consequences - as in the extensive environmental da…

Yes, if only. I continually hear that much olive is not what it is supposed to be and it seems that authorities empowered to do something about this don't do much to stop it or perhaps they'…

Do we know what Priha does or does not want and what she enjoys?

Irrespective of the argument, it's too late. The cat's out of the bag or whatever metaphor you prefer.

Paywalled.

Yes but it hasn't traveled all that well for whatever reason while Western Classical music (WCM) has been adopted on a massive scale by China, Korea and other countries in Asia, to such an extent…

The surprise would be if it wasn't.

We knew a long time ago that there was no theoretical reason why any sound could not be simulated to perfection - eventually. That hasn't happened yet.

The literature on the relationship between BMI and mortality is not conclusive except for a BMI > 30. Generally it seems that lower mortality is associated with a body mass index of 20-25. https…

Assuming the study is robust, here is one possible contribution. In the US in 2021, 52 million people reported using cannabis in the previous 12 months. https://www.samhsa.gov/data…

Many would, I suspect, echo your thoughts. In terms of the people you're not sure how to describe (the 'vast ocean'), I'm just wondering how these ideas might find effect political…

Their use & application can be made accountable.

For me it's the absence of an affordable automated page turner that makes this conversion difficult. I have an Auramate from Czur ( https://www.czur.com/ ) which does a pretty good…

For some the use of the first name assumes a familiarity which probably does not exist. The universal rule is that appropriate levels of interaction are both accepted and used in common parlance by ev…