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China’s FAST is the only giant, single-dish radio telescope after the Arecibo collapse – after closely inspecting photos of Arecibo, yes, I would say it is stuffed, there is no hope of repairing it.
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The gradual transition from paganism to Xianity is like the gradual disappearence of neanderthals and replacement with modern humans – in each generation there would not have been any dramatic changes, but a geometric series tends to make a lot of difference ( except my savings, there is a huge abyss every few years that sets the graph back to nearly the starting point).
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Conversion was lumpy rather than gradual in Scandyland. Kings and petty kings would convert and take their dependents with them.
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Hahaha… arch-bigot turns out to be a hypocrite
It is the same in USA, whenever I read an article that starts about mentioneing some religious/far right big cheese being in trouble, I assume it is a sex scandal
“Gay orgy: top Hungarian ‘Christian values’ politician resigns”
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thefreethinker/2020/12/gay-orgy-top-hungarian-christian-values-politician-resigns/
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Researchers publish whole genome map of key biomarker for detecting cancer https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-publish-genome-key-biomarker-cancer.html
“…the robust performance of 5hmC as a global biomarker for the detection of multiple serious illnesses, such as cancer and various chronic diseases. “
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I’m truly sorry about this.
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This has nothing to do with archaeology, China or music, but you deserve a cute, cuddly film.
Cats and foxes get fed snacks. ”SAVEAFOX Snack Shop Ep. 4” https://youtu.be/UhsraI0dwmc
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Gene (FoxO1 )that protects against osteoarthritis identified https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-gene-osteoarthritis.html
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Australian fossils: Incredible vision in ancient marine creatures drove an evolutionary arms race https://phys.org/news/2020-12-incredible-vision-ancient-marine-creatures.html
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China: Moon probe preparing to return rock samples to Earth https://phys.org/news/2020-12-china-moon-probe-samples-earth.html
Nice lunar picture.
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Gaia: Most accurate data ever for nearly two billion stars
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-gaia-accurate-billion-stars.html The new data include
exceptionally accurate measurements of the 300,000 stars within the closest 326 light years to the Sun.
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Researchers determine how the SARS-CoV-2 virus hijacks and rapidly causes damage to human lung cells https://phys.org/news/2020-12-sars-cov-virus-hijacks-rapidly-human.html
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Today, Sweden passed 7000 dead.
The authorities have decreed pupils of the “upper” schools (immediadely after 9th grade, I do not know the English term. High school? Not university) must do their studying by “telecommuting”
-Tegnell et al. showed diagrams of the increasing infection rates for children and youths with increasing age. From puberty the curve begins to rise and for young people 18 the infection rate is that för 20-something adults.
Here in the county the spread has stopped accelerating, so we may be close to the peak- most other regions also see signs of more static numbers of hospital admissions.
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This is no comfort to the next of lin to the dead, but there is ground for some *very* cautious optimism.
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