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grimwallon A look into the finances of SpaceX

The point of SLS is pork, full stop.

grimwallon Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time

They will keep using animals because we know fuck all about how actually brains work and you cannot slice human brains and probe them to see electrical properties all the time since they are supply-constrained. This study is using a information channel of very very high-level, top-down approach.

grimwallon The man who discovered umami

interesting, there is already a review citing this article giving an opposing view:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6952072/

edit: also a single amino acid salt being harmful really requires some solid evidence, which seems to be not there.

grimwallon The man who discovered umami

Even for non vegetarians, MSG (monosodium glutamate) is a pretty cool addition to the kitchen toolbox, just order some and start experimenting!

Do some controlled ones, for example split a portion into two, ask a 2nd person to sprinkle some onto one of them and try both of them and guess which one has MSG on it.

grimwallon Accelerating Photosynthesis

Beautiful work in automating the experiments and increasing the throughput, very innovative approach.