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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

“RESULTS show eight major clusters of properties: two that relate to metabolism, one to structure, one to genetics, another to evolvability, and three others to environment-interactions broadly construed. By measuring the semantic proximity of the words representing the target entities to the set of words associated with each one of the property clusters, we found that this semantic proximity varied.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

Triplets. View in LinkedIn

STRANGE UNIVERSE. “Phenomena of the physical world, as immediately given to us, appear in inexhaustible structures and formations of matter.” https://lnkd.in/dQ9VgzAr View in LinkedIn

LIFE ON A SPECTRUM. “If it turns out that lifeness is gradual, how do the different more-or-less alive entities fare relative to one another?” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn