Best of Twitter - Week of November 29, 2021 (2/2)
2. That the Earth hasn’t recently been hit by a solar flare as powerful as the 1859 Carrington event, which is good because that would set electrical lines around the world on fire, meaning months of power outages and simultaneous failures of food, transport, and medical systems.
Good roundup on efforts to shape perception by sending signals into the brain. An example not mentioned are the paralyzed Brain-computer interface subjects whose stimulating implants in the motor cortex cause them to feel "touch"
Hank Greely @HankGreelyLSJU
A list of good things to say to your smart friends who have poison-pilled themselves into helplessness with the EMH
Chana @ChanaMessinger
Braarudosphaera bigelowii is a unicellular, eukaryotic phytoplankton with a long fossil record, extending back to 100 million years ago. This is what its dodecahedral exotheca with twelve pentaliths looks like under the electron microscope [full paper: buff.ly/2Hu5Oj0]