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THE HYPOTHESIS. “The chemical dissimilarity of D2O from sugars and other sweeteners raises the question whether the effect we observed in human subjects is mediated by TAS1R2/TAS1R3, which is the major receptor for sweet taste.” https://lnkd.in/dzPDm5w View in LinkedIn

COMPLEXITY FLUX. “If the complexity is not stationary it will either increase or decrease. If it increases it will continue to increase, but if it decreases that will not last long. It will reach a minimum and turn around.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201500092?casa_token=8OO3b1OY4e4AAAAA%3ARqriAgTwtxnvsxl09CqnNy79m7l4ye7ZrkZxcLtObB9kHsTwYgzBuIV2X-xXQ7ezoR6VQPfQLCS-vnI View in LinkedIn

THE DATA. “The amount of H2O consumed by the control group from either of the two bottles, both containing H2O, is depicted in Fig. 3c. Overall, the data shows that in all three experiments mice consumed comparable amounts of H2O and D2O, with significant increase of consumption of the sucrose solution.” https://lnkd.in/dzPDm5w View in LinkedIn

SWEET PREFERENCE. “By contrast, mice exhibit a strong preference for sucrose solution over H2O. Indeed, the consumed volume was significantly increased in line with the predilection of mice for sucrose solutions (Fig. 3b).” https://lnkd.in/dzPDm5w View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on a surprising paper showing that heavy water tastes different from normal water; given the subtlety of the difference, it is surprising and speaks to the exquisitely nuanced nature of taste receptors, that not only can they distinguish the small structural difference but can communicate that to the brain. An extraordinarily thorough paper. View in LinkedIn

Traditional Catalan fisherman’s dish makes splendid use of whatever leftovers are at hand. View in LinkedIn

THE LIMIT OF MIND. “The physics of information processing imposes limits on what can be achieved by any civilization.” https://lnkd.in/gSJJ5XA View in LinkedIn

RELATED STUDY. “A step in this direction was undertaken, where a general mechanism – originally proposed for the explanation of an enhanced memory capacity in black holes – was applied to the framework of quantum neural networks and was shown that it leads to an exponential enhancement of pattern storage and recognition capacities.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

ONE PART OF THE ANSWER. “Obviously, the final answer requires the involvement of biology, which is beyond our expertise. However, we can attempt to do a physicist part of the job.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

SIMPLE ORIGINS. “Given that black holes and human brains exhibit extraordinary memory storage capacities, it is natural to ask whether these systems share some very basic mechanism of the enhanced capacity of the information storage.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn