The boiling river
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Virus eating micro organism and their potential usefulness for fresh water treatment and the environment.
Fucking fascinating @Shashank . The researchers produced a supplemental video explaining the significance and implications of their research. There are some good visual aids in it. Big study it seems. 13 years and 64 co-authors. Not to say we’ll ever escape the inevitable. But a car accident that does us in at age 464 is an improvement on the current state of things.
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wow @rick … hadn’t seen this video…thanks for sharing…It really is fascinating !
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“Is Western Philosophy a Dead End?”(from 6:44)
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How Your Cells Obtain Energy from Food
The food you eat goes to your stomach and intestine, and, gradually, those nutrients are transported into your blood. Ultimately, they’re metabolized and sent to your mitochondria. The food that you’re eating — protein, fat and carbs — essentially is a source of electrons, and your body breaks it down.
Eventually, if there’s no reductive stress, the electrons go straight up the chain. And they go to the fifth complex. The chain is five proteins, they’re called complexes. And the fifth complex is called ATP synthase. It’s what makes adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is often referred to as the “energy currency” of the cell because it stores and transfers energy necessary for various cellular processes.
Inside every cell of your body, a bustling powerhouse is at work, generating the energy that keeps you alive and thriving. This energy comes in the form of a tiny molecule called ATP which acts as the universal currency of cellular energy. At the heart of this ATP production lies a remarkable enzyme known as ATP synthase. This molecular marvel spins at an astonishing rate of five revolutions per second.
Now, imagine the scale of this process. Each mitochondrion ( 500 of them in each cell of our body ) houses around 2,500 ATP synthases, all working in unison to generate a staggering half a million ATP molecules every second. With an estimated 500 mitochondria per cell and approximately 40 trillion cells in your body( TMOBA ), you have a mind-boggling 20 quadrillion mitochondria working tirelessly to power your existence ( every second of the day ).
The numbers become even more awe-inspiring when you consider the total ATP output. By multiplying the number of mitochondria by their production rate, we arrive at a figure that defies comprehension: 200 million quadrillion ATP molecules per second, constantly being generated within your body. This colossal energy production is so immense that, over a single day, you produce the equivalent of your own body weight in ATP.
As Nick Lane eloquently describes in his book “Power, Sex, Suicide,” mitochondria are not only prolific energy producers but also incredibly energy dense. Gram for gram, Mitochodria are a staggering 10,000 times more energy-dense than the sun itself. This extraordinary efficiency allows your mitochondria to meet the tremendous energy demands required for the constant repair and regeneration of your cells and tissues.
I repeat: over a single day, you produce the equivalent of your own body weight in ATP.
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Very interesting podcast for practicing acualist, to appreciate the workings ( perfection ) of this flesh and blood body.
I have not listen to these yet. But they may provide some insight into feelings and emotions.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lisa+feldman+barrett
Very interesting Scientific, short talk about “Changing of the Brain” thru Alertness and Focus ( visual or otherwise )… kind of like Attentiveness Sensuousness …
To change an automatic ( reflexive ) behavior, aka Neuroplasticity steps:
. 1 Recognize that you want to change something, OR change some specific Experience about something
. 2 Attention to what you want to change
Epinephrine for ALERTNESS from Locus Creleuos of brain stem( alertness - know what hours for you in the day you are most focused so you don’t waist these times for meaningless activities )
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Acetyl Choline ATTENTION ( from brain stem AND prefrontal cortex ( Nucluos Basalis of Meynert > the Brain is responsible for change, plasticity, of the brain
KEY INFORMATION: MENTAL FOCUS FOLLOWS VISUAL FOCUS ( visual focus causing release of Epinephrine and Acetyl Choline )
The change of Brains and learning occurs during the Sleep ( learning and change will occur)
ALSO if you just rest for 20 - 90 minutes NSDR = non sleep deep rest ( deliberate non engagement ) and let the mind drift that will also very very much
help the learning and changing of the Brain ( behavior )
To increase ATTENTION aka FOCUS
You can take Nicotine ( attaches to Nicotinic Receptors )
OR
INTENTION REASONING MOTIVATION ETC to be Alert ( for the Goal to becoming Actually Free )
( aka Adrenaline from the adrenal glands above our kidneys )
This is summary of the above video
If it does not play by clicking on this, then copy paste the address into a new tab.
Very relevant and interesting information for doing and learning anything new, including actualism:
How to change the brain, and it’s working. An excerpt from the below video:
" Plasticity in the adult human nervous system is gated, meaning it is controlled by neuromodulators. These things that we talked about earlier, dopamine and serotonin, and one in particular called acetylcholine, are what open up plasticity.
They literally unveil plasticity and allow brief periods of time in which whatever information, whatever thing we’re sensing, or perceiving, or thinking, or whatever emotions we feel, can literally be mapped in the brain such that later it will become much easier for us to experience and feel that thing." That sound like one description of “naïve remembrance” !
Article about asking BIG QUESTIONS , like what do you want your life to be ( this relates to Sincere Intent and how serious one wants to be about Actualism )
How to Enjoy each moment by noticing things…