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Limestone in Banyoles forms a carbonic acid sculpted karst geology with underground caverns and water originating from the 300-400 meter deep gypsum deposits in the mountains at Beuda. View in LinkedIn

FIRST SPACE PROTEIN. “This is the first report of a protein from any extra-terrestrial source. Very high 2H content indicates proto-solar disc or molecular cloud origin. FeO3Fe groups at each end are of a type that could split H2O upon absorption of photons. The existence of a unique chain length suggests that there could be a functionality conferring a replication advantage.” This protein has not been seen on Earth before. https://lnkd.in/d_PBRBQD View in LinkedIn

ONGOING ANTIMATTER PRODUCTION. “Satellite experiments have found evidence of positrons and a few antiprotons in primary cosmic rays, amounting to less than 1% of the particles in primary cosmic rays. This antimatter cannot all have been created in the Big Bang, but is instead attributed to have been produced by cyclic processes at high energies.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

JET PLASMA. “Recent observations indicate black holes and neutron stars produce vast amounts of positron-electron plasma via the jets.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn

You cannot make it up. On the edge of St Daniel on Girona’s outskirts. View in LinkedIn

OBSERVERS CREATING A UNIVERSE. “If Wheeler was right that we decide the physical laws, by our very choices as observers of the universe, then, due to their important and bold contributions to physics, he and his students are responsible for many preposterous features of our universe.” A phenomenal essay. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-12946-4_5 View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this single weekend on biosemiotics, and a delightful article that grasps the importance of communication and translation in biology, and that this is critical for survival, and that it is not a uniquely human quality. Our self-absorption in anthropocentric thinking has blinded us to what is sitting in plain sight; we are products of nature and share many qualities, to varying degrees, with many other creatures. https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

TRANSLATION KEY. “All communication, from endosemiotics through biosemiotics to eusemiotics, entail translation processes.” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn

RARE INSIGHT. “Humans are not the only organisms that translate.” https://lnkd.in/dATmMuTJ View in LinkedIn