What Can a Cell Remember?
What Can a Cell Remember? | Quanta Magazine
A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is.Claire L. Evans (Quanta Magazine)
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The Skeptical Pilgrim: Melville’s Clarel
Weighing in at a colossal 18,000 lines, Herman Melville’s Clarel (1876), which centres on the theological musings of a group of pilgrims touring the Holy Land, is not for the faint-hearted.The Public Domain Review
Though technically perfectly accurate, I personally struggle with the very unusual metric of "18000 lines".
At 764 pages, it's probably the longest poem in American literature, an epic effort, as well as one of the most epic American explorations of spiritual depth –if not the single most epic one.
It’s not just long... it's ambitious, dense, and thematically expansive.
But... lines? That seems anecdotal, nearly as much as how many gallons of ink he used to write it.
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit - Happy August!
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Be Patient, but Don’t Wait
Co-authors Karl Buechner, Jeremy Mueller, and Keith Ward share the importance of being patient as writers even as you do the work.
The post Be Patient, but Don’t Wait appeared first on Writer's Digest.
writersdigest.com/be-patient-b…
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Eyes of Wakanda feels like fanfiction turned into Marvel history
Marvel Studios’ latest animated series recontextualizes some of Black Panther’s biggest ideas.
Eyes of Wakanda feels like fanfiction turned into Marvel history
Disney Plus’ Eyes of Wakanda series is a thinky and fantastical dive into Marvel’s fictional history.Charles Pulliam-Moore (The Verge)
Kijk niet naar economie, maar naar psychologie om Trumps heffingen te begrijpen
Met het herscheppen van de economische wereldorde schaadt Donald Trump de mondiale statuur van de VS. Maar voor de president maakt dat niet uit. Hij ziet dat zijn tactiek van bluf en intimidatie werkt.Peter Giesen (DPG Media)
195: Star Trek - SNW Season 3, Episode 2, "Wedding Bell Blues” | Trek In Time | Episode 195
https://youtu.be/y0DlYknQ9igMatt and Sean talk about getting what you wish for (in both story and fanbase) in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’, “Wedding Bell Blues.” Getting to the Q of it all. YouTube version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.share.transistor.fm
Confessions of a Murderer!
Putin:
The conditions for a settlement in Ukraine, outlined in June 2024, remain in force.
(These "conditions" are: Ukrainian troops leave Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions; Ukraine promises not to join NATO; Ukraine remains a neutral state).
Putin also said that no death of a Russian soldier has been unnecessary and claimed that Oreshnik has been put into serial production.
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Apple's MacBook Air M4 is on sale for a record-low price right now
https://www.engadget.com/deals/apples-macbook-air-m4-is-on-sale-for-a-record-low-price-right-now-123031575.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Apple's MacBook Air M4 is on sale for a record-low price right now
Both the 13- and 15-inch models are available for all-time lows.Sarah Fielding (Engadget)
Letters to the Editor: Nothing good will come of Trump’s executive order to force homeless off the streets
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2025-08-01/nothing-good-will-come-of-trumps-executive-order-to-force-homeless-off-the-streets?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Nothing good will come of Trump order to force homeless off streets
'There already aren’t enough hospital beds to accommodate patients now and [President Trump] hasn’t offered to pay for more,' writes an L.A. Times reader.Los Angeles Times
This Week in Security: Spilling Tea, Rooting AIs, and Accusing of Backdoors
The Tea app has had a rough week. It’s not an unfamiliar story: Unsecured Firebase databases were left exposed to the Internet without any authentication. What makes this story particularly …read more
#hacking #projects
hackaday.com/2025/08/01/this-w…
This Week In Security: Spilling Tea, Rooting AIs, And Accusing Of Backdoors
The Tea app has had a rough week. It’s not an unfamiliar story: Unsecured Firebase databases were left exposed to the Internet without any authentication. What makes this story particularly t…Hackaday
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Debt and delayed care forecast for some who lose insurance under tax and spending law
https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-enrollment-cuts-big-beautiful-bill-26f8a24c2e495ea10b65c5bbc7b551af?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Tankers carrying Russian oil are stuck off the coast of India - four vessels have been unable to unload, according to Bloomberg.
Near the city of Jamnagar, the tankers Achilles and Elyte are anchored - each carrying 700,000 barrels of Russian Urals crude. They were scheduled to offload in early August. Both ships are under EU and UK sanctions.
The reasons for the delay remain unclear, and the destinations of the tankers may change.
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