Best of Twitter - Week of November 9, 2020
This is the most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using x-ray, NMR and cryoelectron microscopy datasets.
“Cellular landscape cross-section through a eukaryotic cell.”
- by Evan Ingersoll and Gael McGill.
digizyme.com/cst_landscapes…
Once the fertility rate falls below 2.1 a population starts to decline (at least without migration). Most of Europe is well below that rate.
You will want to follow @milos_agathon for a regular supply of maps of Europe.
Are they phages? Are they plasmids? They’re both. And they’re different. Phage-plasmids have been known for decades (P1, N15), but remained poorly studied. Now, we show there are a lot of them. doi.org/10.1101/2020.1… Great work led by @UGene2020 1/N
Two people can talk themselves into doing something neither would do alone. This force has a dark side. It drives bullying and, for large n, mobs. But it also produces some amazing things.
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the Inverse Professor Galloway now up 183% and outperforming S&P by 9x 📈📈
jason@calacanis.com @Jason
We are taking a stand for developers and have reinstated the youtube-dl repo. Section 1201 of the DMCA is broken and needs to be fixed. Developers should have the freedom to tinker. That's how you get great tools like youtube-dl.
An exercise that still amazes me: start talking about anything. As you do, realise that you're not planning these particular words, they just happen, and you have no real introspective access to the underlying generators. Your thinking is a black box even to yourself.
Relatedly, it took me several decades to realise that the quality of my thinking dramatically improves when I'm talking or writing. But apparently many geniuses had their best ideas on solitary walks, so your mileage may vary.
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More encouraging vaccine news as @moderna_tx reports interim phase 3 #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 mRNA #vaccine clinical trial data. From >30,000 volunteers, 90 infections occurred in the placebo group versus 5 cases in the vaccine group (94.5% efficacy, p <0.0001).
Some adverse effects were noted by @moderna_tx. Severe effects ≥2% in frequency after the first dose included injection site pain 2.7%; after the second dose included fatigue 9.7%, myalgia 8.9%, arthralgia 5.2%, headache 4.5%, pain 4.1% and redness at the injection site 2.0%.