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This 40-micrometer single-celled organism with zero neurons … hunts, kills, and eats other living creatures using nothing but microtubules and geometry. Lacrymaria olor is a freshwater ciliate found in ponds worldwide and one of the most ferocious predators in microbiology. At rest, it’s a teardrop barely visible to the...

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CRUCIAL ANALYSIS of Charlie Kirk assassination. There is NO WAY a .30-06 round hit Charlie directly in the neck period. The damage would be tremendous, especially out the back. We need to continue to ask questions and work together. Not get mad at one another for bouncing theories and ideas off of one another. The SIDE SHO*TER FLASH does flash before the crack of the rifle sound which is consistent with the speed of sound, seeing the flash of a barrel before hearing it. Take notice to the direction the T-SHIRT pulls, this is interesting if Charlie was wearing a vest and a bullet fragment hit him in the neck, therefor causing no exit wound. Bullet entry wounds are usually small in the front and large out the back, especially with hollow point rounds because they flatten on impact. The neck is very fragile especially considering if a main artery is ruptured or torn from a gun shot. There is no way he was shot with a .30-06 round because there is no extreme damage on the neck and especially behind it with NO BULLET EXIT WOUND. It would of been catastrophic damage. The only thing that makes sense is if it was a fragment of the bullet round itself off the bullet proof vest. But what if he wasn't wearing one? We need to verify if Charlie was wearing a vest and what kind. This question should have been answered immediately, but it was never even asked. No way a .30-06 round hit Charlie's neck straight on PERIOD. Unless it was an exit wound from a completely other gun, sho*ter, or object, angle, etc. There are many more layers and theories but this needs to be said. Keep asking questions and keep digging. Would love to hear your thoughts and feed back. cc: ProjectConstitution

The SCIF

437,455 views • 9 months ago

I've been asked to review and provide thoughts on the question of a potential targeting call in the Hardin-Simmons Cowboy Football / UMHB Football🏈 #d3fb game Saturday. I have synced up two videos -- one from UMHB's broadcast and one posted by In The (D3FB) Huddle contributor Riley Conlee (Riley Conlee) (if he could provide credit to the videographer of it, I'd appreciate it). There is a full-speed view and a 20% speed view of the central action included in the video. To evaluate targeting, we have to review both aspects of the rule to see what, if anything, qualifies. I want to provide the entire set of rules (9-1-3 & 9-1-4): "Targeting and Making Forcible Contact With the Crown of the Helmet ARTICLE 3. No player shall target and make forcible contact against an opponent with the crown of their helmet. The crown of the helmet is the top segment of the helmet; namely, the circular area defined by a 6-inch radius from the apex (top) of the helmet. This foul requires that there be at least one indicator of targeting (See Note 1 below). When in question, it is a foul. (Rule 9-6) (A.R. 9-1-3-I) Targeting and Making Forcible Contact to Head or Neck Area of a Defenseless Player ARTICLE 4. No player shall target and make forcible contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent (See Note 2 below) with the helmet, forearm, hand, fist, elbow or shoulder. This foul requires that there be at least one indicator of targeting (See Note 1 below). When in question, it is a foul (Rules 2-27-14 and 9-6). (A.R. 9-1-4-I-VI) Note 1: “Targeting” means that a player takes aim at an opponent for purposes of attacking with forcible contact that goes beyond making a legal tackle or a legal block or playing the ball. Some indicators of targeting include but are not limited to: - Launch. A player leaving their feet to attack an opponent by an upward and forward thrust of the body to make forcible contact in the head or neck area. - A crouch followed by an upward and forward thrust to attack with forcible contact at the head or neck area, even though one or both feet are still on the ground. - Leading with helmet, shoulder, forearm, fist, hand or elbow to attack with forcible contact at the head or neck area. - Lowering the head before attacking by initiating forcible contact with the crown of the helmet. Note 2: Defenseless player (Rule 2-27-14). When in question, a player is defenseless. Examples of defenseless players include but are not limited to: - A player in the act of or just after throwing a pass. This includes an offensive player in a passing posture with focus downfield. - A receiver attempting to catch a forward pass or in position to receive a backward pass, or one who has completed a catch and has not had time to protect themselves or has not clearly become a ball carrier. - A kicker in the act of or just after kicking a ball, or during the kick or the return. - A kick returner attempting to catch or recover a kick, or one who has completed a catch or recovery and has not had time to protect themselves or has not clearly become a ball carrier. - A player on the ground. - A player obviously out of the play. - A player who receives a blind-side block. - A ball carrier already in the grasp of an opponent and whose forward progress has been stopped. - A quarterback any time after a change of possession - A ball carrier who has obviously given themselves up and is sliding feet- first. - A player attempting to recover a loose ball." We need to start at Note 2 to see if Kyle Brown qualified here as a "defenseless player." If not, then 9-1-4 would not apply to him here. Kyle was not a receiver or a passer per se here -- he was clearly a runner downfield and was not in the grasp of any player. As a result, he was not "defenseless" by definition. That means that the only way targeting can be called here is if the provisions of Rule 9-1-3 were violated. Rule 9-1-3 is VERY specific about the initial requirement before we can go to the question of a required indicator: "No player shall target and make forcible contact against an opponent with the crown of their helmet." The crown of the helmet is "the top segment of the helmet, specifically the circular area with a 6-inch radius from the apex (top) of the helmet." In the videos, we see a couple of telling signs. First, Kyle appeared to actually lower HIS helmet as the contact became imminent, which is something coaches advise against for a variety of reasons, including self-preservation. But what is telling is that the UMHB defender attempted to peel off as he saw the angle of the contact he was heading toward with Brown. Specifically, he appeared to end up perpendicular to Brown, perhaps catching Brown's facemask enough to cause the helmet to fly. Yet, that contact was NOT with the defender's crown. As a result, since Brown was not defenseless by rule and because the crown of the helmet was not used for forcible contact to the head/neck area, the picking up of the flag by the officials was appropriate. That said, I spoke with an official who reviewed the videos without commentary and who landed in the same spot as I did concerning the above. They stated that if immediate replay review was available, crews will generally throw the flag and go to review (here, it likely would have been overturned by review, preserving the defender's eligibility). Since the ASC is not providing the on-field replay review yet, the officials' decision would have impacted the game by ejecting a player for the last 6 minutes of the first half until a Halftime review would have been available. For those wondering about how replay is impacting the game, I think this is a good reminder of the nuances it can impact.

Frank Rossi

10,688 views • 8 months ago

This video is one of the first times I thought biology was “cool.” It shows a neutrophil cell chasing a bacterium. Originally recorded in the 1950s by David Rogers at Vanderbilt University, the video gave me a deeper appreciation for life, even at the level of a single cell, because the neutrophil's movements seem so intentful, purposeful, aware. It wasn’t until recently, though, that I actually tried to demystify the neutrophil’s movements and understand how they happen. Here's what I learned: 1. The neutrophil's surface has thousands of protein receptors. Molecules secreted by the bacteria collide with these receptors. When that happens, the proteins change shape, slightly, and initiate a signaling cascade. 2. The neutrophil “knows” where to go because of a discrepancy in bound vs. unbound receptors. The side of the cell closest to the microbe will, probabilistically, have more "bound" receptors than the other side (because the molecules secreted by the microbe have a concentration gradient). This is how the neutrophil figures out which way to move. 3. Each bound receptor activates several G proteins located inside the cell membrane. Each G protein, in turn, switches on PI3K enzymes. In this way, the original signal is amplified; a single "activated" receptor might cause ~100 copies of PI3K to get switched on downstream. 4. The PI3K enzymes stick phosphates onto lipids in the cell membrane. The side of the neutrophil facing the bacterium now has more phosphates than the "back" side. Phosphate-binding proteins, such as GEF, accumulate and then recruit Rac, thus activating it. Rac, in turn, acts like a molecular switch, ultimately recruiting Arp2/3. (TL;DR: A bunch of proteins get activated, and the high phosphate concentration at the leading edge is the key signal for all this.) 5. At any given moment, the neutrophil has millions of actin molecules. These are the proteins used to build the cytoskeleton. Half of the actins are already “assembled” into filaments, but the other half are just floating around. Arp2/3 acts as a nucleator, grabbing onto actin and then starting a new cytoskeletal branch. More actin is assembled at the leading edge (where the Arp2/3 has accumulated), where they each push on the cell membrane with ~2 piconewtons of force. Hundreds of actin chains, pushing together, causes the cell to form protrusions. 6. The assembling actin chains push the cell at a speed of ~20 micrometers per minute (the length of about ten E. coli cells placed end-to-end.) As all of this is happening, another signaling cascade, nucleated at the back end of the cell, is dismantling actin filaments and recycling them. All this happens over a span of about 30 seconds. Much of this process is invisible; what we see, instead, is "just" a cell chasing its prey. But that's the wonderful thing about biology: A singular observation is usually more than enough fodder for a lifetime of work. The well is deep. There is always more to learn.

Niko McCarty.

127,145 views • 6 months ago

CBS you can tell by the way they say oh we dont know if that is Epstein is not implying murder. They are leaning in to the Alex Jones internet conspiracy that Epstein is still alive. To do that you would need a body swap. They have ZERO reason to keep this guy alive and risk a jail break in with lol a body double. This isnt the movies. He had too much heat. When an asset had been burned they becomes a liability. When that happens and there is a threat of a plea bargain, they will kill you just as they killed Robert Maxwell. Jean Brunel also died in prison or was that a body swap too? And yet Maxwell is still in prison left her to rot and she’s not talking. They did not drag a corpse of a 66 year old look alike and plant it in the prison and hire a bunch of actors to pretend like they worked on him then pay off a medical examiner to look at a different body and say it was suicide yet leave injuries on that body consistent with murder and also take photographs of that body that look just like a dead Epstein Then for no reason at all have his brother order a second autopsy (why do that if its all a conspiracy) and the second autopsy contradicts the official story because the new pathologist found a broken bone in his neck and ruled it murder. He had a broken bone in his neck something we only learned because of a second autopsy. Dr Michael Baden, is a friend of Larry Johnson who I interview all the time. He saw the body as did Epstein’s own brother and said he was murdered by strangulation. Look at the gash on his neck. Now if you were going to Hollywood fake this why make a gash like that and a broken bone? This conspiracy is beyond stupid. it is like the survivor going around saying they saw him turn into a lizard. Alex Jones wants to turn this into a tar baby the same way he did to 911. They are trying to kookify this whole thing. The attack is two pronged. One mouth says they broke him out AND he is living in Israel. That type of lie automatically associated the anti-Israel crowd with being retarded. It is the same thing they did with Judy Wood on 911 where they were super anti-Israel but then had magic DEW weapons. The other mouth is blaming Russia.

Ryan Dawson

11,669 views • 5 months ago