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DIGITAL TICKETS on 2nd October at 3-4 pm, at the Petersfield Museum, Hampshire UK. Talk by my old friend, naturalist, The Times newspaper nature columnist, and published butterfly author with four books under his belt, Mathew Oates, titled ‘The ever encouraging friend' - Discovering WH Hudson.’ Worth an hour, for certain. https://lnkd.in/dCNnzynM View in LinkedIn

THE TRADITIONAL BRIGHT LINE. “There is, however, an implicit assumption that is often made in conjunction with such claims: the assumption that there exists a strict delineation between life and non-life.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

SUBJECT MATTER. “In this work we studied possible formation of exotic molecules based on the interaction of antihydrogen with hydrogen, deuterium and tritium atoms.” Experimentally challenging. https://lnkd.in/df-X8h2E View in LinkedIn

A BIT ALIVE. “Taken together, these analyses provide a conceptual “lifeness space” that makes it possible to move away from a categorical construal of life by empirically assessing the relative lifeness of more-or-less alive entities.” Cardinal heresy alert! Prepare the burning stakes! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w View in LinkedIn

“CONSEQUENCES of the Matter-Antimatter Coexistence. Compounds composed of atoms and antiatoms could lead to the discovery of a new field to be referred to as matter-antimatter Chemistry and better understanding of chemical bonds.” https://lnkd.in/df-X8h2E View in LinkedIn

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