A research indicates that trees might be ‘aware’ of their size: Scientists found out that birch trees adjust their stem thickness to support their weight. (1)
We hold our consciousness so high.
Never have we thought to look down to the dirt.
Never have we thought that this might be the lowest of the possible forms of Being.
And that we need to get low in order to rise…
Look around.
So many things to see.
Do you see anything?
Life is built with three major components: RNA and DNA – the genetic code – and proteins, the cells that carry out their instructions. Most likely, the first cells had all three pieces. But first, RNA, DNA or proteins had to form without their partners. One common theory, known as the “RNA World” hypothesis, proposes that because RNA, unlike DNA, can self-replicate, that molecule may have come first. Some scientists believe the process of its formation may not have been such a straightforward path.
In a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Szostak Kim and colleagues present a new model for how RNA could have emerged out of a mixture of nucleotides with similar chemical structures: arabino- deoxy- and ribonucleotides (ANA, DNA, and RNA). Kim found that the chimeric oligonucleotides – like ANA and DNA – could have helped RNA evolve the ability to copy itself. (1)
Meet life.
Highly disorganized. Highly chaotic. Highly volatile.
Resulting in robust designs.
Creating lasting bonds.
Setting the foundations of everything.
Meet death.
Highly organized. Highly structured. Highly stable.
Resulting in the chaos of life.
Creating nothing.
Setting the foundations of nothing.
Meet the world.
Woven out of thin thread. Balancing between life and death.
Neither living, nor dead.
Dead and living as well.
Can the fish exist without the sea?
– Hi.
– Did you have breakfast?
– No, there were no fish…
Explanatory Notes
The secret to a long life? For worms, a cellular recycling protein is key. Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have shown that worms live longer lives if they produce excess levels of a protein, p62, which recognizes toxic cell proteins that are tagged for destruction. The discovery, published in Nature Communications, could help uncover treatments for age-related conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease, which are often caused by accumulation of misfolded proteins.
“Research, including our own, has shown that lifespan can be extended by enhancing autophagy – the process cells use to degrade and recycle old, broken and damaged cell components”, says Malene Hansen, Ph.D., a professor in the Development, Aging and Regeneration Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys and senior author of the study. “Prior to this work, we understood that autophagy as a process was linked to aging, but the impact of p62, a selective autophagy protein, on longevity was unknown”. (1)
There you go.
Recycle old material and you will live longer.
But will that new ship built with new material be the same as the old ship which started the sail?
Will you recognize your mother when you get back home?
Questions we do not care about.
Because unfortunately modern man has chosen not to return home…
And on that new ship we set sails.
All into the dark sea.
Storm raging. Thunders and rain.
You believe these are obstacles toward your goal.
But they are just a calling back home…
Where our old ship is waiting.
To carry us where we need to go…
Scientists long assumed that new genes appear when evolution tinkers with old ones. There are studies suggesting that genes do not always evolve from existing ones, as biologists long supposed. Instead, some are fashioned from desolate stretches of the genome that do not code for any functional molecules. For example in the fish genomes, there are hints that this might be the case: the antifreeze protein — essential to the cod’s survival — has seemingly been built from scratch. (1)
In other news, a research group has discovered a novel cancer-driving mutation in the vast non-coding regions of the human cancer genome, also known as the ‘dark matter’ of human cancer DNA. (2)
Funny, but (philosophically) totally expected.
It is not the useful which produces something useful.
Look from a distance and you will see.
Everything is useless. Until they are useful in some way.
Everything is useful. Until they stop being such.
Stop defining something from its results.
And you will see light even in the deepest darkness…
Jellyfish are about 95% water, which makes them very difficult to study because most of the underwater tools available to marine biologists are clunky, heavy, and often shred jellyfish and other delicate creatures to pieces. A new ultra-soft gripper uses fettuccini-like ‘fingers’ inflated with water to gently grasp jellyfish and release them without harm, allowing scientists to safely interact with them in their own habitat. (1)
We touch things to experience them.
We see things to view them.
And what we see and touch is there. Never going away. Stable environment for scared little humans. Search the depth of your soul. It is what you don’t see that shapes your being. It is what you cannot touch that really touches you back. It is what you can touch that you cannot really touch. Because it is there only because of the things you can never touch.
Try to touch the cosmos…
Don’t be afraid.
It is afraid of you!
You are the raging abyss. Pouring out into existence.
Existence that should never be there in the first place.
Touch the cosmos!
Break it into pieces!
See?
You are still here…
