My bio textbook finally spat out a chapter on viruses... Virai.. Vira? Anyways. Maybe I'll find some hints for or against my own hypothesis about viruses. I've had this thought since I was a little kid - that viruses are a recent development and they are the extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs.

🤔 this gives me idea... This is from my bio textbook. I'm very happy it has moved on from the genetics... Oof, complicated. So the idea is this : if amino acids form during the star's formation, like while the hot disk cools into rocks and comets, then maybe we could just look at the light of any star and determine if its formation had the same process that results in amino acids, and then refine the search for extraterrial life by assigning probabilities to stars that they created amino acids based on their light profile. Eh? Are they doing this? Idk. Anyways, its a great day to read stuff. ☕ #Science #sciencstr

My intestines have become intolerant of milk... I'm getting actual pain when I put milk in my coffee (which has been my habit for yearrrrrrs) but not when I don't.

I love my new hobby... But also I'm exasperated with its jargon... I see no indication that it can do anything more than describe events, the actual mechanisms of which it still hasn't penetrated. For example, in one chapter my book defines homeotic and heterochronic gene expressions, which are genes that mark the beginning of spatial or chronological transcription, and it's certainly interesting - getting a leg to grow out of a drosophila fly's head is cool - but there doesn't appear to be any understanding of the mechanism by which it is actually done. They've found these relationships by destroying different segments of DNA, then noting what changes. But where's the **_actual_** information that describes phenotypic expression? DNA is a protein library ; geometry isn't in there. There's just no way DNA contains the density of information required for phenotypes... What annoys me is how it appears to be trying to appear authoritative, as if it has all the answers, instead of putting the problem front and center (or at least giving a nod to it) and saying, "this is the mystery, bounty of great renown to whoever solves it!"

Just watched my third movie of 2026. This one was difficult, until it made sense.