Interesting Links for 30-12-2024

[andrewducker]

1. A brief explanation of why AI is being shoved into everything

(tags:ai business money technology )

2. Live LED Maps of the weather

(tags:weather maps led viaSwampers )

3. Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?

(tags:Iceland Europe )

4. In 2024 we discovered a whole new unknown kind of life - inside of us!

(tags:life biology wtf )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

Hmmm. If so, why is this not mentioned in the Wikipedia article or either of the 2 linked articles I read?

Someone, in fact many someones, must think differently, to the point of not even mentioning the similarity. I wonder why? Because plasmids are DNA fragments and obelisks RNA? Or that "The RNA sequences of obelisks are unlike any previously described and do not match the DNA or RNA of any known plant, animal, bacterium, or virus."?

It's been 30 years since I studied biology, I would have to go off and do some catch-up reading to decide if I think the structural similarity is close enough. But I do tend towards thinking that because they do have totally novel sequences, they do deserve to be thought of as a thing apart.