… of all the Leps I ’ ve photographed
My Mothematics Gallery can be found on my Imaging Storm photography site along with other invertebrates, flora and fauna, etc. I’ve written about several of the species I’ve seen for various outlets, but haven’t yet got around to adding all of the links to this list #bearwith
Moths
Aethes francilana/beatricella (Walsingham, 1898/Fabricius, 1794)
Agapeta hamana (Linnaeus, 1758)
Agonopterix heracliana-ciliella agg NFM 2020
Agonopterix purpurea (Haworth, 1811) NFM 2021 (MYO lure)
Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa, Linnaeus, 1758)
Arches, Buff (Habrosyne pyritoides, Hufnagel, 1766)
Arches, Dark (Apamea m...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 10, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 19th 2021
In this study, we developed the first epigenetic clock for domesticated sheep (Ovis aries), which can predict chronological age with a median absolute error of 5.1 months. We have discovered that castrated male sheep have a decelerated aging rate compared to intact males, mediated at least in part by the removal of androgens.
Furthermore, we identified several androgen-sensitive CpG dinucleotides that become progressively hypomethylated with age in intact males, but remain stable in castrated males and females. Comparable sex-specific methylation differences in MKLN1 also exist in bat skin and a range of mouse tissu...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 18, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Ferroptosis in Aging
Ferroptosis is a mode of programmed cell death that manages to be both fairly well explored in the broader research community and far less visible than other programmed cell death processes. It was first named and described about a decade ago, though of course researchers have long explored aspects of its biochemistry. There is some thought that ferroptosis may be connected to lysosomal dysfunction and accumulation of molecular waste in long-lived cells of the central nervous system, but in general it isn't much mentioned in the aging research field. This paper here provides an overview of why ferroptosis might be an inter...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 15, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Chinese Communist Party at 100
David BoazThe Chinese Communist Party is going all ‐out to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding on July 1. Movies, music, theater, elaborate wedding ceremonies. Fireworks, of course. And, in keeping with the party’s roots, repression. As the New York Timesreports, nothing is being left to chance:The Ministry of Civil Affairs is leading a nationwide crackdown against “illegal” nonprofit organizations, including religious and social groups, as part of efforts to ensure a “good environment” for the centenary.Officials have also warned of consequences for those who “distort” party history or ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 29, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: A surprising anomaly
Female characters so far have been fairly scarce. We all know about Eve and the apple, of course. Sarah is named but we never really learn anything about her except that she ' s apparently sexually attractive and got jealous of Hagar -- a slave who was oppressed and mistreated. God noticed and gave her protection. (Of course, he didn ' t do anything about slavery and concubinage in general, in fact he was all for it.) Jacob ' s wives Rachel and Leah get a fair amount of play. They exert what agency they can within the limitations of their gender role. Rachel resorts to quite a bit of deception and manipulation. Zipporah ha...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 20, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
poem
ImpedimentA lot of us have some sort of impedimentLashing us to an iron stake on shore.We never quite launch even Though our ship is loaded and ready.Every minute that goes by, ourCraft sinks deeper into sediment.But we ’re always on the verge of startingOur speeches, our finely honedDiscourses on love or rageWithout ever saying a single word.We make listeners uncomfortableAnd we ’ve learned to play it off like John CageBut we don ’t get it; it isn’t the silenceThat makes our audiencesLook down at their shoes;It ’s the ineffectual efforts to break it.I ’m like a golfer with the yips,Overthinking the simple...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - June 15, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Judge THIS
If you thought Joshua was gruesome, wait till you read Judges. There ' s still plenty of genocide, but there ' s also more violence that is up close and personal. The first chapter is more or less a continuation of the sort of action we saw in Joshua, except that Joshua is dead so now it ' s Judah who carries out the massacres. It even repeats a couple of the stories we have already read, but now they ' re cutting off the thumbs and big toes of a captured king. As for Yahweh ' s omnipotence, sorry, sometimes he can defeat the other people in Canaan and sometimes he can ' t, depending on the military technology they have. H...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 9, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Non invasive cardiac output monitoring
Conventionally, measurement of cardiac output was done invasively. Initially with dye dilution techniques and later by thermodilution techniques. Both needed pulmonary artery catheterization, which in turn was likely to cause morbidity if used for continuous monitoring. Almost all non-invasive cardiac imaging modalities like echocardiography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear imaging can measure cardiac output. But these are not suitable for bedside monitoring, though echocardiography may be used for intermittent bedside assessment.
Assessment of cardiac output though desirable, was most often ti...
Source: Cardiophile MD - June 6, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Human exceptionalism
It seems to be something of a fad to claim that humans aren ' t actually exceptional. Other animals can think and learn and plan and communicate with each other, there ' s nothing special about us, at least no more than the extent to which every species is unique, yadda yadda. I think this is an utterly vapid argument. Sure, every species is unique, but our impact on the planet is vastly greater than that of any other organism. Yes of course, photosynthetic organisms created and sustain our oxygen-rich atmosphere, but that ' s been the case for more than 2 billion years. That ' s the stable background of life on eart...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 3, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: At last a story with a point
Joshua 22 tells a simple story very elaborately, but at least it ' s clear why this is here. You may recall that three groups of Israelites wanted to settle on the east side of the Jordan, but God insisted that their military age men participate in the conquest of Canaan. Now their obligation is discharged, and they go home with their share of the loot. However, they feel isolated from the rest of the nation so they build their own altar. The people on the west side think they have committed apostasy, and send a delegation to investigate preparatory to bringing the whole army over and murdering them all. Along the way they...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 30, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Don't worry, we're almost done with Joshua
Joshua 21 is just the incredibly boring recitation of the towns and pasturelands given to the Levites. Levites wrote this whole thing up till now, at least since Exodus, so it ' s not surprising that a major focus of it is on the perks and loot they get. Apparently, not a few seminarians have reported that reading the Book of Joshua caused them to lose their faith. Indeed, I don ' t understand how anybody can read it without that effect.The penultimate verse of this chapter, BTW, is entirely false. The Lord did not deliver all their enemies into their hands. Viz:As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the childr...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 26, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Magnetic Cilia to Propel Soft Biomedical Robots
Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands have developed artificial cilia that can beat just like the real thing. The tiny projections typically adorn the outside of certain cells in nature, and this artificial version could help to propel tiny biomedical robots or power microfluidic pumps. The artificial cilia rely on magnetic fields to generate movement, and the researchers have already shown that they can move tiny soft robots in a variety of ways, including allowing them to ‘walk’ up vertical surfaces and even upside down.
Soft robots have enormous biomedical potential...
Source: Medgadget - May 25, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Sorry, we just have to get through this
I got nothin ' else to say about this incredibly boring bullshit. But I ' m committed to reading the whole damn book so that ' s what ' s gonna happen.19 The second lot came out for the tribe of Simeon according to its clans. Their inheritance lay within the territory of Judah.2 It included:Beersheba (or Sheba),[a] Moladah,3 Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem,4 Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,5 Ziklag, Beth Markaboth, Hazar Susah,6 Beth Lebaoth and Sharuhen —thirteen towns and their villages;7 Ain, Rimmon, Ether and Ashan —four towns and their villages—8 and all the villages around these t...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 19, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
This didn ’t happen every day in a small town ER
An excerpt from The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town. Marc Tingle and his daughter, Summer, stood in a bathroom they were tearing apart over in Fayette in Fulton County. They had a problem: taking a cast-iron bathtub out of a room that had been built around the tub was aRead more …Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/brian-alexander" rel="tag" > Brian Alexander < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Emergency Medicine Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
Any Serious Congressional China Legislation Should Include Section 232 Reform
Inu Manak andScott LincicomeAccording to various news reports, Congress is preparing a package of legislative updates to U.S. trade and economic policy in order to address China ’s growing economic and geopolitical influence. The resulting “China Package” will, like theStrategic Competition Act of 2021, be a bipartisan effort that includes a mix of diplomatic and strategic policies seeking to bolster U.S. companies ’ competitiveness and rein in perceived Chinese abuse. One area ripe for reform – yet unfortunately missing thus far from congressional discussions – is Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 12, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Inu Manak, Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
