Last night we watched a short animation movie called "the Street of Crocodiles" by the Quay brothers. The whole thing feels like an old distressed sculpture brought to life, I highly recommend it.
#theCinema

The German botanist Johannes Karl Albert Winkler, who failed Greek lessons, coined "genome" on the pattern of "chromosome" but forgot the "s":

Chromo-some: Color-body (shows up when stained)
Gen-ome: Gene-[nonsense suffix]

Stick that in your meme-ome.

Receipts (auf Deutsch): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Winkler_(Botaniker)

mindblowing new discovery in Conway's Game of Life: any buildable pattern in Life can be constructed from the collision of 15 gliders.

https://btm.qva.mybluehost.me/building-arbitrary-life-patterns-in-15-gliders/

the key principle: distance itself can be used to encode information. by determining the correct starting [x,y] coordinate for each glider, any future state of the Life universe can be created, with effectively unbounded complexity. 🤯

(via @OscarCunningham @danstowell)

Hi Everyone. I have had a mastodon account @jerlich@qoto.org for 2+ years.... i haven't decided whether or not to move it here or to just have two accounts and let this one be more "neuro"-ish....

What do people think? Do they like seeing the "other" side of academics they follow ? Or better to keep work and extracurricular activities separated?

#intro #neuroscience