@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialLab-grown sperm and eggs just a few years away, scientists say;
Quest to create viable human sex cells in lab progressing rapidly, with huge implications for reproduction
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/05/lab-grown-sperm-and-…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"The Bib Record in the Age of Digital Reproduction" https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/135
"Taking both structural and thematic inspiration from Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanic…
@mlawton@mstdn.socialMy fair city of Roanoke attained “Bee City USA” status in 2022, which aims to “promote healthy, sustainable habitats for bees and other pollinators, responsible for the reproduction of nearly 90% of the world’s flowering plant species and one in every three bites of food we eat.”
Last night, a couple of garden clubs teamed up with the city to screen a new PBS Nature documentary, “My Garden of a Thousand Bees”.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social#ContemporaryContradictions #HashTagGames
Rules: include as many contradictions s you'd like. Can be profound or trivial. Each contradiction is stated via exactly 1 or 2 questions, no statements and not more than 2 questions. Try to group yours into a single post, rather than one post per contradiction, so that it's easier to see more voices when scrolling the hash tag.
Why does "race" work according to the "one drop rule" if you have Black ancestors, but according to "blood quantum" if you have Indigenous ancestors? Who benefits from this arrangement?
Why do we think of seeds as merely a reproduction mechanism for trees, instead of thinking of trees as merely a reproduction mechanism for seeds, especially since some plants can spend millennia as seeds but can survive for only part of a year after sprouting? Are metabolic activity or structural complexity really so important?
If Columbus discovered America, did Batu Khan discover Europe? What is an "Age of Discovery?"
Why don't corporations in the US try to lobby the government for a single-payer healthcare system where the government foots the bill for healthcare instead of companies paying to deeply subsidize their employees' healthcare? What benefit do they gain that's worth that cost, which in other countries is paid for via taxes?
Why is the cost of renting (which gets you zero equity) anywhere close to the cost of a mortgage (which eventually gets you ownership)? If the costs are similar but the benefits are so different, why does anyone ever rent?
Why do we obsess over the fruit/vegetable classification of tomatoes, but not corn, okra, cucumbers, zucchini, etc.?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized reproduction of its articles, and seeks $14.7M in damages (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/japans-l
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized reproduction of its articles, and seeks $14.7M in damages (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/japans-l
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI've finally figured out how to run a shell properly from a #Docker container, and gave someone #Gentoo reproduction instructions. And they are surprisingly simple:
https://github.com/narwhals-dev/narwhals/issues/2921#issuecomment-3146258796
@arXiv_qbioPE_bot@mastoxiv.pageHierarchy Entropy Degeneration Explains the Rat Utopia Population Collapse: The Role of Full Visibility and Isolation
Alexander V. Mantzaris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08587 htt…
