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LANGUAGE GENE. “Called Forkhead-box P2, or FOXP2, this gene is a member of a large and ancient gene family that codes transcription factors (proteins that bind to DNA, thus regulating the expression of other genes).” https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn

LANGUAGE GENE CANDIDATE. “Fortunately, a combination of hard work and luck has provided the first language-related gene that is both the same in all normal human populations and functionally different from that of chimpanzees.” https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the evolution of language. This author reaches into the genetic fossil record via taxonomy to look for physical traces for a phenomenon that left few. Arguably, much of conscious thought requires language, but unconscious thought appears different. https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn

An enormously high door in old town Girona is the result of the hill that ascends to the cathedral, and the necessity of continuing the horizontal. View in LinkedIn

THE EXOCEREBRUM. “My iPhone is not my tool, or at least it is not wholly my tool. Parts of it have become parts of me. This is the thesis of the extended mind: when parts of the environment are coupled to the brain in the right way, they become parts of the mind.” (David Chalmers). https://lnkd.in/dk82B5rC View in LinkedIn

ENERGY BALANCE. “A greater amount of energy generated by star formation as compared with accretion processes appears to be favored by these circumstantial arguments.” https://lnkd.in/dAkZ_ejH View in LinkedIn

ENERGY FROM STAR FORMATION. “Observations with the successor to IRAS, the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) in the mid 1990's indicated that most of the energy from low-redshift ULIRGs is likely generated by star-formation.” (ULIRGs = UltraLuminous InfraRed Galaxies. https://lnkd.in/dAkZ_ejH View in LinkedIn

ENERGY FROM NUCLEOSYNTHESIS. “If accretion and nucleosynthesis were to generate the same amount of energy during the formation of a galaxy, then the ratio of mass contained in both processed stars and stellar remnants to that of a supermassive black hole is expected to be about 0.1 BH / 0.007 *. For * = 0.4 and BH = 1, this ratio is about 36.” https://lnkd.in/dAkZ_ejH View in LinkedIn

STELLAR ELEMENT FACTORIES. “When hydrogen is processed in stellar nucleosynthesis, the mass-energy conversion efficiency is about 0.007 *, where * ( 0.4) is the fraction of hydrogen burned in high-mass stars. When mass is accreted onto a black hole, the mass-energy conversion efficiency is expected to be about 0.1 BH, with BH ~ 1 with the definition above.” https://lnkd.in/dAkZ_ejH View in LinkedIn

THE INNER WORLD. “The sea, the mountains, the infinite expanse of stars, the fiery depths, the darkness of the abyss—the world recorded on the pages of C.G. Jung’s Red Book is not the physical domain of the outer world, the world of common day. It is the realm where dreams and fantasy visions arise. It is the wellspring of imagination.” (1913) https://lnkd.in/dE-WPfU4 View in LinkedIn