Henrietta Lacks’ hometown is replacing a Robert E Lee monument with a statue of her. That’s awesome
Andreas Matern
Now it’s Christmas
Following a Thread on Hacker News about the Atari 2600 Basic programming cartridge, I found this.. and it brought back a flood of memories writing D&D character generation programs in Basic and saving them to cassette tape. How times have changed!
What an inspiring morning read. Now let’s get ready for some football. Will Argentina prevail? Or will France win back to back world cups?
Best science images of 2022 - photographs of a black hole? Amazing.
The best line I’ve read all day
If you did go for a full ten minutes without one thought appearing in your mind, you are a freak of human nature.
BASF Ad
Found this old BASF Advertisement that was … sent to me in the 1980s?
Embryo Cells Set Patterns for Growth by Pushing and Pulling
A really great read of a complicated subject. We’re all taught that the undifferentiated mass of cells that we all start out as starts to develop chemical gradients that changes gene expression depending upon physical location. Now, it looks like that answer is not sufficient. Cells use the extracellular matrix to push and pull and change. Fascinating!
Cool sky tonight
Well this sounds fun.