Mon Apr 5, 2021 01:58 PM
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Use a badge holder instead of laminating the vaccine card in case we’ll need booster shots. https://vitals.lifehacker.com/what-to-do-instead-of-laminating-your-vaccine-card-1846619729
If you have a collection of conference badges from the Before Times, its time to dig them out. Like a video game where an item from the first level suddenly comes in handy in the final dungeon, it turns out that the card youre typically given with a COVID vaccine is the perfect size to fit in a standard badge holder.&
Mon Apr 5, 2021 01:58 PM
This article reminds me of another article a while back when a neuroscientist said (paraphrased) “the more I study the brain, the more difficult it becomes to separate the brain from the rest of the body.”
“If there’s a pile of sand, you intuitively know this is a pile of sand. But a pile is not a precisely defined thing. It’s not like after 13 grains, it moves from a collection to a pile.”
“It’s clear that nature has a sloppy disregard for boundaries: Viruses rely on host cells to make copies of themselves. Bacteria share and swap genes, while higher-order species hybridize. Thousands of slime mold amoebas cooperatively assemble into towers to spread their spores. Worker ants and bees can be nonreproductive members of social-colony “superorganisms.” Lichens are symbiotic composites of fungi and algae or cyanobacteria. Even humans contain at least as many bacterial cells as “self” cells, the microbes in our gut inextricably linked with our development, physiology and survival.”
“principle of the individual “as kind of a verb.” … an aggregate that “preserved a measure of temporal integrity,” propagating a close-to-maximal amount of information forward in time. … Three axioms: One is that individuality can exist at any level of biological organization, from the subcellular to the social. A second is that individuality can be nested — one individual can exist inside another. The most novel (and perhaps most counterintuitive) axiom, though, is that individuality exists on a continuum, and entities can have quantifiable degrees of it.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-an-individual-biology-seeks-clues-in-information-theory-20200716/
To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for lifes basic units.
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