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NUANCED QUALIA. “While aligning with intuitions—for instance about viruses being less alive than bacteria—these quantitative results also reveal differential degrees of performance that have so far remained elusive or overlooked.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

NOT JUST ANNIHILATION. “Thus, apart from direct annihilation channels, particle-antiparticle interactions at low energies are also accompanied with the formation of exotic atomic structures and exotic molecular compounds.” https://lnkd.in/df-X8h2E View in LinkedIn

CRITERIA. “Eight major clusters of properties were identified together with their relative relevance for each target entity (two that relate to metabolism and catalysis, one to genetics, one to evolvability, one to structure, and—rather unexpectedly—three that concern interactions with the environment broadly construed).” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

METHODS. “Using text-mining methods across over 30,000 scientific articles, we defend instead a degrees-of-life view and show how these methods can contribute to experimental philosophy of science and concept explication.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE features an brilliant article titled ‘Beyond categorical definitions of life: a data-driven approach to assessing lifeness’ (2021), by Christophe Malaterre & Jean-François Chartier. “In this paper, we argue against this binary construal of life.” An outstanding and original contribution, and a true landmark in a disgraceful quagmire of nonsense. https://lnkd.in/dj_stx5n View in LinkedIn

The egg shell of a dogfish and an exotic tropical seed. View in LinkedIn

DUTCH DOLL CATASTROPHE. “The Glaville Fritillary butterfly was introduced into the island of Sottunga as a scientific experiment, but unfortunately it contained the larvae of a parasitic wasp, which themselves contained larvae of a hyperparasitoid wasp, as well as the parasitic bacteria Wolbachia. Unwittingly, all three species were introduced. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/14/butterflies-finland-parasitic-wasps?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

APPLICATION. “One of the most interesting consequences of low energetic matter-antimatter interaction is the development of a novel source of energy which could be employed as fuel for engines for space Labs.” https://lnkd.in/df-X8h2E View in LinkedIn

HIGH ENERGY OUTPUT. “The resulting annihilation processes could provide us with a source of considerable amount of energy (In Table 2 are presented the orders of magnitudes of energies gained by different sources).“ https://lnkd.in/df-X8h2E View in LinkedIn

MECHANISM. “In this case we argue that if a thermalized beam of positrons passes through a palladium sheet in which a large number of free (or localized) electrons are populated, different positronium entities could be formed as well as positron-electron plasma.“ https://lnkd.in/df-X8h2E View in LinkedIn