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THE LINK. “The source of that iridium was proposed to be from a huge asteroid or comet that collided with the Earth, coinciding with the time of the mass extinctions.” https://lnkd.in/e5hTuW74 View in LinkedIn

CHICKEN DEFICIENCY STUDIES. “From this pathology it was suggested that the embryos were unable to mobilise Ca from the shell and that the consequent hypocalcaemia caused muscle weakness which prevented the chicken from breaking the egg shell.” https://lnkd.in/e5hTuW74 View in LinkedIn

IRIDIUM FINGERPRINT. “The case for a catastrophic cause of mass extinction was strengthened by the discovery of a worldwide enrichment of the rare element iridium in a narrow band of geological strata formed 66 Mya.” https://lnkd.in/e5hTuW74 View in LinkedIn

VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY. “A deficiency of cholecalciferol causes a range of pathological changes, the most prominent of which is the bone disease of rickets or osteomalacia.” https://lnkd.in/e5hTuW74 View in LinkedIn

NUTRITIONAL DEATH HYPOTHESIS. “Why did the dinosaurs become extinct? Could cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) deficiency be the answer? (2019), by D. R. Fraser PhD, of the Sydney School of Veterinary Science, Australia. He took his PhD at Cambridge where he worked for nearly a decade in the MRC Dunn Nutritional labs, and presents a very interesting nutritional theory. https://lnkd.in/exW_KUxm View in LinkedIn

SUPPRESSION OF STRUCTURES. “Warm dark matter (WDM) is semi-relativistic at creation. A concrete candidate is the sterile neutrino. Thermal WDM free streaming erases perturbations and suppresses the power spectrum on (small) mass scales, and consequently structure formation is suppressed below this mass.” (WDM = Warm dark matter). https://lnkd.in/e6ifiQMn View in LinkedIn

A half-shuttered churchnon the edge of Quart (Girona) whose bell still works and where elder people still gather on Sunday mornings. View in LinkedIn

ELOQUENT BUT FORGOTTEN. “Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was Professor of Latin Eloquence at the University of Naples. His works, first written in Latin, and then later in Italian, were not understood in his lifetime and have not been widely known or understood since. Vico has remained an obscure and eccentric thinker.” https://lnkd.in/eEHaWAZf View in LinkedIn

INHOMOGENEITY. “Particle interactions can lead to primordial and/or evolutionary deviations from vanilla CDM. Primordial effects modify the evolution of density perturbations, and hence, for instance, the initial halo mass function.” (CDM = Cold Dark MatterCold dark matter). https://lnkd.in/e6ifiQMn View in LinkedIn

HALO SAUSAGE “A significant fraction of the halo near the Sun is in the Gaia-Enceladus/sausage, which is the aftermath of a major merger with a M ∼ 108 M⊙ dwarf galaxy (8−10) Gyr ago. The name arises from the fact the stellar component has radially biased orbits, and hence the distribution of vr is sausage like.” (M⊙ = solar mass units). https://lnkd.in/e6ifiQMn View in LinkedIn