My immediate suspicion when reading the title was that this would be a temporary effect, with the fungi providing a buffer by storing the mercury but eventually releasing the more toxic organic forms. But it turns out that they do transform the organic mercury form (at least methyl mercury) into the less toxic and volatile elemental mercury!

I had not learned about the mercury demethylation pathways before, and as far as I can tell (2021 review) the research on it is still relatively new, with many unknowns. Very cool stuff, thanks for sharing.

So, you experienced it during the first videos you watched but developed a tolerance as you kept watching them?

Interesting! Flakey pastry sounds do nothing for me, but they are indeed very characteristic.

I sleep like a baby during thunderstorms, they are very relaxing.

Interesting! Can you do that on purpose, or it happens when you contract the muscles in just the right way by accident?

Very cool. I understand part of it, but I will have to do some work to really get it.

Nature Communications has a transparent peer review process, and there was a nice discussion between authors and reviewers while trying to get this published - which is worth looking at if you are interested in the divided opinion during the peer-review process that the article mentions.

Paper (open access): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33667-1

Peer-review file: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41467-022-33667-1/MediaObjects/41467_2022_33667_MOESM2_ESM.pdf

No. Many users never interact after approval, even if I approve right away.

I had issues while trying to setup the e-mail notifications and never got back to it, so new users won’t get notified when I do approve them. It is possible that some of them never return to check - that is one of my guesses. Is your instance configured to send the e-mail notification?

I am thinking about those explanatory videos where they ask you to pause the video and try to find the answer yourself before continuing. I always pause and try - it is fun. But sometimes after several unsuccessful attempts I get frustrated and I just skip to the answer so that I can move on. It would be great to have this option with other things in life… I enjoy the process of learning via trial and error, but having an AGI next to me so that I can cheat a little bit from time to time would be great.

Just read some of the discussion over why this project was stopped.

the concerns of its usage by trolls has been far greater amongst the community.

It pains me, because at some level, I think it’s a useful and missing function, however it’s antithetical the values of the fediverse.

I am probably being dull, but I don’t get it. Why is having a search engine to search over the fediverse a bad thing? Why does that help trolls? And how is this antithetical to the values of the fediverse?

That’s a pretty cool move for a videogame

This finding implies that the female beauty premium observed when education is in-person is likely to be chiefly a consequence of discrimination. On the contrary, for male students, there was still a significant beauty premium even after the introduction of online teaching. The latter finding suggests that for males in particular, beauty can be a productivity-enhancing attribute.

The conclusion that they are drawing here is much, much stronger than what I think is reasonable to conclude from their methods and data. I do not agree that the results imply this - which gives me the impression that the ‘imply’ here means that the data conforms to their pre-conceived hypothesis. A hypothesis that might be slightly tainted by their unconscious sexist bias.

But if he doesn’t even try to lie about this, the situation is extra hopeless.

I don’t know if this mindset will hold true with the new owner of Twitter though. I would assume Elon will do far worse things with the data.

I don’t know much about Elon Musk. But he strikes me as someone who would want to extract as much value as possible from data, and not as someone who thinks user privacy is something important to protect. Is this a topic that he has publicly spoken about?

Avogadro 2 still has a long way to go. Too bad the original stopped being supported. Thank you for your contribution!

Indeed! Very small! ^.

Cool work! I met one of the authors, he used to come to our lab to do time-resolved absorption measurements until recently!

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By the way, I meant is as in, it is more important to focus on getting the ‘form’ right rather than prioritizing carrying heavier weights or pushing the limits of the body to try to progress faster. Safety comes first!

Weightlifting

I was not under the impression that this was a common view. For example, in films and media that depict school shootings, the shooters are usually depicted as regular kids that get pushed to the limit by bullying and abuse. Besides gun control, mental health is often the focus when speaking about school shooters, but it is more about basic and more general aspects of mental health rather than the “psychosis and other serious psychiatric illness” mentioned by the article. I also see this in the news when discussing this type of event - the emphasis is rarely on the shooter’s severe mental illness, but rather on how they were (mis)treated, abuse that they might have faced, other life history, and less severe metal traits such as narcisim and suggestibility.

Also, according to the article about 20% of school mass-murders with firearms and 32% of those without firearms were perpetrated by people with severe mental illness, so severe mental illness is responsible for a good amount of these.