A mechanistic explanation of the transition to simple multicellularity in fungi by Luke L. M. Heaton, Nick S. Jones & Mark D. Fricker, published May 22 in Nature.
PINE64 is a community driven company focused on creating high-quality, low-cost ARM devices. They market Free Software phones and laptops built on ARM64 Allwinner cores, among other things.
Discovered Miles Mathis, who is a heterodox critic of physics and math. Makes some interesting claims like how π should equal 4 in kinematic contexts, complete with evidence for it, surprisingly. Needs further digestion.
David Levinson on The Explorer I Anomaly - some more background for Mathis' aforementioned belief.
Facebook post: On one hand, I don't agree with forced mask usage. On the other, masks are useful tools, and mitigate disease risk. On the third hand, public support for mask use is undoing authoritarian policies aimed at forcing people to abandon their anonymity in public spaces. Keep them optional but advised and I'll lend my support, but the second it becomes mandatory, I'll resist. This parallels my position on vaccines, only masks have no potential for introducing an acute concentration of toxins into the bloodstream, so they're strictly lower on the risk spectrum.
We report a time course of SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in primary sewage sludge during the Spring COVID-19 outbreak in a northeastern U.S. metropolitan area. SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in all environmental samples and, when adjusted for the time lag, the virus RNA concentrations were highly correlated with the COVID-19 epidemiological curve (R2=0.99) and local hospital admissions (R2=0.99). SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations were a seven-day leading indicator ahead of compiled COVID-19 testing data and led local hospital admissions data by three days.
Added a couple writing topics for future reference.
"Karl Marx: Racist" by Nathaniel Weyl. Posted for future reference.
Evidence for the zinc-hydroxychloroquine treatment.
After adjusting for the time at which zinc sulfate was added to our protocol, an increased frequency of being discharged home (OR 1.53, 95% CI 1.12-2.09) reduction in mortality or transfer to hospice remained significant (OR 0.449, 95% CI 0.271-0.744). Conclusion: This study provides the first in vivo evidence that zinc sulfate in combination with hydroxychloroquine may play a role in therapeutic management for COVID-19."Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin plus zinc vs hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin alone: outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients"
Added "Log" section. Reorganized backgrounds.
Read an article about how a ketogenic diet treats nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Noticed the United Nations' "New World Order" initiative and the "new economic system" they're pushing, entitled "Happytalism". Signed up to receive the Happytalism white paper. I don't expect it to differ much from their usual Bolshevist bent.
Discovered brutalist web design, which reflects the design of this site and my general approach.
Published a subtle alternative master of Yasunori Mitsuda's tune "Another Termina" off of the Chrono Cross soundtrack.