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    mark
    wrote on 16 Jan 2023, 17:11 last edited by
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    Scientists in Israel are growing date palms from 2,000-year-old seeds.

    https://hasanjasim.online/scientists-in-israel-are-growing-date-palms-from-2000-year-old-seeds/?fbclid=IwAR0B_lgN70YNQKen7Qq2n_OmxwxG2U5XRGwrCJ8DRE_7VLqwq1RKrYlNfTI

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      16 Jan 2023, 17:11

      Scientists in Israel are growing date palms from 2,000-year-old seeds.

      https://hasanjasim.online/scientists-in-israel-are-growing-date-palms-from-2000-year-old-seeds/?fbclid=IwAR0B_lgN70YNQKen7Qq2n_OmxwxG2U5XRGwrCJ8DRE_7VLqwq1RKrYlNfTI

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      Doctor Phibes
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      @mark said in Mildly interesting:

      Scientists in Israel are growing date palms from 2,000-year-old seeds.

      https://hasanjasim.online/scientists-in-israel-are-growing-date-palms-from-2000-year-old-seeds/?fbclid=IwAR0B_lgN70YNQKen7Qq2n_OmxwxG2U5XRGwrCJ8DRE_7VLqwq1RKrYlNfTI

      Now you can have a date with Jesus!

      I was only joking

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        16 Jan 2023, 17:16

        @mark said in Mildly interesting:

        Scientists in Israel are growing date palms from 2,000-year-old seeds.

        https://hasanjasim.online/scientists-in-israel-are-growing-date-palms-from-2000-year-old-seeds/?fbclid=IwAR0B_lgN70YNQKen7Qq2n_OmxwxG2U5XRGwrCJ8DRE_7VLqwq1RKrYlNfTI

        Now you can have a date with Jesus!

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        LuFins Dad
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        @Doctor-Phibes said in Mildly interesting:

        @mark said in Mildly interesting:

        Scientists in Israel are growing date palms from 2,000-year-old seeds.

        https://hasanjasim.online/scientists-in-israel-are-growing-date-palms-from-2000-year-old-seeds/?fbclid=IwAR0B_lgN70YNQKen7Qq2n_OmxwxG2U5XRGwrCJ8DRE_7VLqwq1RKrYlNfTI

        Now you can have a date with Jesus!

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          wrote on 17 Jan 2023, 20:19 last edited by
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          A rare photo of a Big-Fin Squid, caught on camera on November 11th 2007 by a Shell Oil company ROV, at a depth of 2,386 meters (1.5 miles). This species of Squid dwell at extreme depths, and are characterised by their long, thin tentacles. They can reach almost 20ft long when fully grown.
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          https://hasanjasim.online/an-amazing-image-of-the-elusive-big-fin-squid/?fbclid=IwAR1l4KSlE72bsJTebhfybhAItG_7E8DawIK_T3rDzwd58yxJLppNvly20-Y

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            wrote on 18 Jan 2023, 12:08 last edited by
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            Chicago skyline visible from nearly 50 miles away in Indiana Dunes sunset.
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              jon-nyc
              wrote on 18 Jan 2023, 17:07 last edited by
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              Only non-witches get due process.

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                Catseye3
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                @jon-nyc Partially spotted, anyway.

                Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                  wrote on 19 Jan 2023, 17:19 last edited by
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                  Utkan Demirci and Sean Wu use acoustics to manipulate heart cells into intricate patterns. A simple change in frequency and amplitude puts the cells in motion, guides them to a new position and holds them in place.

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                  https://stanmed.stanford.edu/innovations-helping-harness-sound-acoustics-healing/?fbclid=IwAR2cM6a7NTKndJ8M4T8-ZWBlmdXHXlF709VAChyu2Ik2MYgisfoCmc87ZAs

                  Wu and Demirci can then shepherd the heart cells into nearly any pattern they want. “You can make triangles, hexagonal shapes, circles, lines — you can even make a little human shape,” Demirci says.

                  “And,” Wu adds, “if you don’t like the pattern, for whatever reason, you can change it, literally, within five or six seconds. You change the frequency and amplitude, and the cells move into a new spot right in front of your eyes.”

                  Unlike other tissue engineering tactics, acoustics position the heart cells in a tight configuration that closely resembles natural cardiac tissue, turning the resulting, beating blob into something valuable for medicine.

                  Wu and Demirci think acoustic engineering could help foster more realistic cardiac disease modeling and drug screening. More distantly, but still on the horizon, the pair even see their generated tissue as an option for heart patches in patients who have weak cardiac walls or have damage from a heart attack.

                  Next, Demirci and Wu say that they plan to add vascularization — conduits that carry blood and oxygen to various parts of an organ — to make their generated heart tissue even more realistic.

                  Very interesting things are being performed with sound in the article. This is just one.

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                    Doctor Phibes
                    wrote on 20 Jan 2023, 18:40 last edited by
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                    Ray Charles could play the saxophone.

                    Pretty well, as it happens...

                    Link to video

                    I was only joking

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                      wrote on 20 Jan 2023, 21:22 last edited by
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                      You never saw Ray Charles play Bebop like Charlie Parker

                      Neither did Ray.

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                        George K
                        wrote on 21 Jan 2023, 01:31 last edited by
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                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                          jon-nyc
                          wrote on 23 Jan 2023, 17:51 last edited by
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                          Only non-witches get due process.

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                            wrote on 24 Jan 2023, 23:32 last edited by
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                            New research by Australian scientists shows that “unicorns” lived alongside humans and were only made extinct by climate change.

                            The giant, shaggy Ice Age rhinoceros (Elasmotherium sibiricum), known as the Siberian unicorn because of its extraordinary large single horn, was thought to have become extinct some 200,000 years ago.

                            That theory has been debunked by an international team of researchers from Adelaide and Sydney, as well as London, the Netherlands, and Russia.

                            In a study paper, published Tuesday morning in the scientific journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers say the Siberian unicorn became extinct only 36,000 years ago.

                            The study found the most likely cause of the species’ demise was a reduction in grassland due to climate change, rather than the impact of humans.

                            Weighing up to 3.5 tonnes with a single enormous horn, the Siberian unicorn roamed the steppes of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Northern China.

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                              24 Jan 2023, 23:32

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                              New research by Australian scientists shows that “unicorns” lived alongside humans and were only made extinct by climate change.

                              The giant, shaggy Ice Age rhinoceros (Elasmotherium sibiricum), known as the Siberian unicorn because of its extraordinary large single horn, was thought to have become extinct some 200,000 years ago.

                              That theory has been debunked by an international team of researchers from Adelaide and Sydney, as well as London, the Netherlands, and Russia.

                              In a study paper, published Tuesday morning in the scientific journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers say the Siberian unicorn became extinct only 36,000 years ago.

                              The study found the most likely cause of the species’ demise was a reduction in grassland due to climate change, rather than the impact of humans.

                              Weighing up to 3.5 tonnes with a single enormous horn, the Siberian unicorn roamed the steppes of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Northern China.

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                              jon-nyc
                              wrote on 24 Jan 2023, 23:41 last edited by
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                              @mark

                              It almost looks like a sloth.

                              Only non-witches get due process.

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                                Horace
                                wrote on 26 Jan 2023, 14:49 last edited by
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                                Link to video

                                Education is extremely important.

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                                  26 Jan 2023, 14:49

                                  Link to video

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                                  Horace
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                                  @Horace said in Mildly interesting:

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                                  I guess it's not coincidence that the rungs are angled. When a rung hits the table on one of its ends, the rung rotates and the opposite end spins towards the table faster than freefall, pulling the ladder down with it.

                                  Education is extremely important.

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                                    wrote on 26 Jan 2023, 17:40 last edited by
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                                    Conditions improving from 2 years ago

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                                    https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx

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                                      wrote on 27 Jan 2023, 06:06 last edited by
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                                      Look again. It’s one picture. Not two.

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                                        27 Jan 2023, 06:06

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                                        Look again. It’s one picture. Not two.

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                                        wrote on 27 Jan 2023, 14:27 last edited by
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                                        @bachophile WTF is that? It looks like a stubby cargo ship but what is the structure on the left?

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                                          wrote on 27 Jan 2023, 14:28 last edited by
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                                          A woodpecker's tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull to protect its brain from over 1000g of acceleration when it's hammering away

                                          Read more http://bit.ly/3XXIU7c

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