serial port

[serialport0]

People say things like "I've destroyed my sleep schedule." But I am one step ahead of those people, because having a sleep schedule is required before you can destroy your sleep schedule.

[mindblowingscience]

Scientists just mapped the family tree of all 11,000 bird species—and you can explore it

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer. Available on Birds of the World, the Phylogeny Explorer offers a captivating experience for exploring avian evolution, discovering closely related species, and grasping the timescales at which they evolved.

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[deliriatremens]

[grungeouttakesabstracts]

Off-street parking

Madrid, Spain -- 4/1/23

[algebraic-dumbass]

i'd describe my style of learning mathematics as "i never do any work and just let it absorb through my skin". which is a painful and slow process

[algebraic-dumbass]

re-reading a paper and related things makes it slowly, gradually, make more and more sense. when you're starting out in math, you're used to just learning one thing at a time, going from 0% understanding to 100% understanding over some relatively short period of time, and then moving on to the next thing. but it appears that in research you're going from 0% to 40-60% understanding of things, with like twenty things at once, and much more slowly

[algebraic-dumbass]

of course, that is how it practically goes for me. but indeed, i know that literally everyone else who isn't a dumbass just reads things and understands them 200% instantly, and that i'm an impostor and a fraud and shouldn't even be allowed withing ten meters of a math department due to my sheer stupidity measurably slowing research down by merely existing. this is a very true and productive way of thinking and keeps me motivated to do more math /s

[hexagr]

Objects decay. Information decays. Let's periodically reiterate obvious concepts as a safety measure.

[mostlymarginalia]

Humans are complex multicellular diploid organisms, differentiated into two sexes often called “sperm” and “eggs.” Human reproduction involves a multicellular diploid phase, while the haploid phase consists solely of gametes. The evolution of gametes into two extremes evolved independently across nearly all lineages of multicellular organisms.

[funeral]

Antonio Damasio, Descarte's Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

[explicitlyrics]

many on here need to be learning this lesson

[nondelphic]

writing isn’t hard it’s just emotionally devastating and time-consuming and requires full body possession by an idea

[thememedaddy]

[markvomit]

[neetzone]

[ahead]

From WeHeartIt

[mostlymarginalia]

Citrus fruits clustered by genetic similarity of partial sequences. Ternary diagram of hybrids of the three major ancestral species. Data from Curk et al. (2016).

[opendirectories]

[nocontext-fieldnotes]

The hum of power lines Uploaded on July 27, 2016 Taken on July 24, 2016

[friendlydecapod]

Remember how livejournal kind of... you know... faded out and popular bloggers moved to other blogs? I kind of suspect that's currently happening with tumblr. I hate to be the bearer of the concept, but I suspect that X and Substack and github are more intellectually alive than tumblr. And it's not even close.

[nightcore-nasheed]

Wow. I didn’t know that. You’re telling me now for the first time. What can I say. She lived an amazing life.