The #DoublHelix article by Watson and Crick, besides its implications for #biology and #life as we know it, is an INCREDIBLE piece of WRITING (in general and scientific writing in particular). I call it writing with the 4Cs: #creativity, #cohesion, #concision, and #coherence. I also LOVE their boldness! Check these excerpts. “We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A,). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.” Start saying what you can expect to see by the end of the article “A structure for nucleic acid has already proposed by Pauling and Corey'. They kindly made their manuscript available to us in advance of publication. […] In our opinion, this structure is unsatisfactory” Criticize Linus Pauling!!! “We wish to put forward a radically different structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid.” Not afraid to be bold! “The previously published X-ray data on deoxyribose nucleic acid are insufficient for a rigorous test of our structure. So far as we can tell, it is roughly compatible with the experimental data, but it must be regarded as unproved until it has been checked against more exact results.” Not afraid to acknowledge their limitation, but confident on their rational. “It has not escaped our notice that the specific paring we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.” This is the most impressive sentence, if not of the article, of all scientific literature. I imagine how long it took to write it! What do you say when you have no time to run all the experiments, but cannot let someone else make the obvious conclusion for you? This is what you say! “Full details of the structure, including the conditions assumed in building it, together with a set of co-ordinates for the atoms, will be published elsewhere.” Why bother with details when you just made history?! I’m advising my group to use this article as a template to validate YOUR own next article. https://www.nature.com/articles/171737a0

The #forest is #infrastructure, and cutting it down is like destroying a bridge, a building, or even a city. Keeping it standing is an asymmetric investment, low cost and high return | #Biodiversity is Infrastructure

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Biodiversity is Infrastructure – tagomago

Originally published in Portuguese at Valor Econômico - 9/19/2024 Brazil’s strategy neither reduces poverty nor conserves biodiversity. The time...

New #tagomago #blog post. #COP16 #OTU #DNA #eDNA #Speciesless #Metabarcoding #Business #Nature #Finance #Conservation #BioBureau #Toda.bio

“a recurring theme in pessimistic theories throughout #history has been that an exceptionally dangerous moment is IMMINENT. Our Final Century makes the case that the period since the mid twentieth century has been the first in which #technology has been capable of destroying #civilization. But that is not so. Many civilizations in history were destroyed by the simple technologies of FIRE and the SWORD. Indeed, of all civilizations in history, the overwhelming majority have been destroyed, some intentionally, some as a result of PLAGUE or #natural disaster. Virtually all of them could have avoided the catastrophes that destroyed them if only they had possessed a little ADDITIONAL #knowledge, such as improved AGRICULTURAL or MILITARY technology, better HYGIENE , or better POLITICAL or ECONOMICAL institutions. Very few, if any, could have been saved by greater caution about #innovation. In fact most had enthusiastically implemented the #precautionaryprinciple.” — The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World de David Deutsch https://amz.onl/cd2kNGp

“There would be no existing ship designs to stick with, nor records to stay within, if no one had ever violated the precautionary principle.” — The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World de David Deutsch https://amz.onl/dNPFzoY #innovation #entrepreneurship #science

While reading tonight ‘What Feelings Do When No One’s Looking’ by Tina Oziewicz

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to my kids, when we get to ‘Hate’ and how it destroy contacts, my boy says: “I never felt hate”. I may be doing something right :-) #Love #Life #Parenting #Education

Research for my next article on #Biodiversity #Credits “Hayek explained that contrary to popular and elementary treatments of the topic, the economic problem is not merely the problem of allocating resources and products, but more accurately, the problem of allocating them using knowledge that is not given in its totality to any single individual or entity. Economic knowledge of the conditions of production, the relative availability and abundance of the factors of production, and the preferences of individuals, is not objective knowledge that can be fully known to a single entity. Rather, the knowledge of economic conditions is by its very nature distributed and situated with the people concerned by their individual decisions. Every human's mind is consumed in learning and understanding the economic information relevant to them. Highly intelligent and hardworking individuals will spend decades learning the economic realities of their industries in order to reach positions of authority over the production processes of one single good. It is inconceivable that all these individual decisions being carried out by everyone could be substituted by aggregating all that information into one individual's. In a free market economic system, prices are knowledge, and the signals that communicate information. Each individual decision maker is only able to carry out her decisions by examining the prices of the goods involved, which carry in them the distillation of all market conditions and realities into one actionable variable for that individual. In turn, each individual's decisions will in turn play a role in shaping the price. No central authority could ever internalize all the information that goes into forming a price or replace its function. […] The rise in the price itself contains all the relevant information they need.” The #Bitcoin Standard. Saifedean Ammous

#BIODIVERSIDADE é #INFRAESTRUTURA! Minha coluna hoje no Valor Econômico S/A, a segunda sobre o tema de créditos de biodiversidade lastreados em #DNA, fazendo uma reflexão sobre os benefícios de considerar e precificar florestas e outros ativos naturais como infraestrutura.

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Biodiversidade é infraestrutura

A estratégia do Brasil nem reduz a pobreza nem conserva a biodiversidade. O tempo dos produtos de baixa tecnologia e baixa conveniência passou

#COP16 #OTU #DNA #eDNA #Speciesless #Metabarcoding #Business #Nature #Finance #Conservation with @Bio Bureau Biotechnology

If measured by #Bitcoin, he has a lot. If measured by number of times he has been to #Rio’s carnival… View quoted note →

When you write, respect the reader. A lazy writer throws text on the screen or paper, waiting for the reader so sort and select what is important. But readers, understandable, get bored and leave. A good writer knows that it is his job to select what is important and relevant to dive to the reader. #Creative #Writing #science #education

Reminder to myself: If there is no one willing to pay right now for the solution, then it is not a priority problem. #business #innovation #entrepreneurship

Comments like this are misleading, because they make you think that Earth’s #evolution was gradual and linear. It was… it was in bumps and lumps. And always ruthless. #Nature is not what we’d call ‘nice’. #Biodiversity https://x.com/unbiodiversity/status/1829700639888458049

Spend already more than 2 days trying to convert my tweets to nostr. Why is it so hard? This is an obvious need, but no minimally useful solution. From what is seems it is not even hard (json files on both ends). But it is a huge frustration for non technical users like me (even with the help of chatGPT). PS: exit.pub is offline

SAMPLING #water IN and OUTside the @Manoa farm, a sustainable logging project in Rondônia, Brazilian #Amazon, which stands as an island of forest in a sea of deforestation. We're assessing the resolution of #eDNA to demonstrate #biodiversity balance and gains across various large-scale #conservation projects. Come see @biobureau, @toda.bio and our VERIFIABLE biodiversity CREDITS at #COP16 in Cali, Colombia, in October. #biodiversity #biotechnology #business #speciesless #metabarcoding Photos by Luciano Candisani

If the #Brazilian #president ⁦@LulaOficial⁩ and #congressmen and women had to move to Porto Velho, I wonder for how long the Smoke and #Forest fires would be tolerated. photo: ⁦@LCandisani⁩

RT @NewsfromScience: As teams grow, new #PhD graduates are less likely to land tenure-track jobs and more likely to leave science—especiall…

RT @ProfFeynman:

Flamengo #beach is getting BETTER (water quality, sand, safety, people) EVERYDAY #Rio is amazing.

#Bitcoin rules

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I’m coming to the conclusion that a sense of reality is more than a talent. Is a super-power! While I’m sure I have the talent, I’m working on making it a super-power. #innovation #entrepreneurship #startup

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“A #sense of #reality is a matter of talent. Most people LACK that #talent and maybe it's just as well” Charlotte Andergast | Autumn Sonata (19...

Não é legal ter um texto seu virando questão do #CNU?! Eu gostei.

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