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TLEILAXU:
This is a thread for random interesting science related stuff.
I'll start off:
This is physics talk I'm watching right now. It's about the fine tuning of the universe. It's not too hard to follow the broad ideas for a layman. Link: Why is there a Macroscopic Universe? (Nima Arkani-Hamed)

This is a cool little video where they hooked some heart cells to some gelatine/gold-ray thingy.
Robotic ray is part animal, part machine

Brian Cocks talks a little bit about heat death. It's very poetic and there's one line in particular that moves me near the end.
Death of the Universe

Some creepy illusion stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_aftereffect

Synchronized oscillations of a synthetic quorum clock in bacteria.
The related article is behinid a pay wall but there's an article describing the article here.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/417178/a-synchronous-clock-made-of-bacteria/

Madness:
I thought I saw a moniker for this thread in Quorum :(?

Tleilaxu's something something something?

TLEILAXU:
I wanted to make it more general, i.e. so others can join in too.

TLEILAXU:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/want-discover-truly-alien-life-pack-genome-sequencer

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