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GEOMETRY DEPENDENT. “If the geometry of absorbing and scattering material is known or assumed, then radiative transfer models can be used to predict the SED of a galaxy, which should differ depending on whether the source of heating is a very small AGN with a very hard UV SED, or a more extended, softer-spectrum nuclear star-forming region. Note that the results are expected to be very sensitive to the assumed geometry.” (AGN = active galactic nuclei; UV = ultraviolet; SED = spectral energy distributions). https://lnkd.in/dAkZ_ejH View in LinkedIn

PHYLOGENETIC STUDIES. “Shortly thereafter, researchers compared the DNA sequence of this gene in multiple human populations with that of the mouse and chimpanzee (and other apes).” https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn

ENERGY SOURCE. “It is plausible that a significant fraction of the energy could be derived from an AGN surrounded by a very great column density of gas and dust that imposes many tens of magnitudes of extinction on the emission from the AGN in the optical and UV wavebands, and which remains optically thick even at near-IR wavelengths.“ (AGN = active galactic nuclei; UV = ultraviolet; IR = infrared). https://lnkd.in/dAkZ_ejH View in LinkedIn

CANDIDATE SEQUENCED. “The isolation of the gene to a particular region of chromosome 7, aided by the fortuitous discovery of an unrelated individual with similar symptoms and a closely-related mutation, allowed researchers to finally isolate and sequence the FOXP2 gene.” https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn

PANPSYCHISM. “Together with the thesis of computational sufficiency, this would imply that a rock has a mind, and possesses many properties characteristic of human mentality.” Read carefully, a deadly serious proposition, that if correct, is the start of a paradigm change. https://lnkd.in/gz4_FJeX View in LinkedIn

DISEASE KNOCKOUTS. “However, the correction of this misinterpretation in no way diminishes the importance of FOXP2, given the importance of increased oro-motor control in the evolution of spoken language. Studies of affected members using noninvasive brain imaging have already begun to uncover the anatomical and physiological underpinnings of the deficits caused by the mutated allele.” https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn

THE MODERN QUESTION. “Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? Some accept the boundaries of skin and skull, and say what is outside the body is outside the mind.” (David Chalmers). https://lnkd.in/gJgsdgxu View in LinkedIn

FALSE STARTS. “Early reports that this mutation affected only morphological syntax leading to the misleading term ‘grammar gene’, were based on little data and inadequate controls, and have been widely repudiated.” https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn

STAR POWER. “In intermediate luminosity galaxies…the most intense knots of star-formation activity, from which most of the luminosity of the system emerges, are not coincident with either nucleus of the merging galaxies, but occur in a deeply dust-enshrouded overlap region of the ISM of the galaxies. This provides a strong argument that almost all of the energy in this system is being generated by star formation rather than an AGN.” (ISM = interstellar media; AGN = active galactic nuclei). https://lnkd.in/dAkZ_ejH View in LinkedIn

SPEECH PATHOLOGY. “Affected members of the family have a number of difficulties, focused on problems with oro-motor praxis including speech production and non-speech oral movements, and including some less distinct cognitive and perceptual deficits.” https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn