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https://tornyol.com/technology Good question to sit with, because it has a near-perfect natural experiment already baked into the fossil and behavioral record: bats. A Tornyol-type drone — a 40-gram autonomous drone that finds and intercepts mosquitoes using ultrasonic phased-array sonar — is functionally a synthetic bat. It flies fast, hunts small insects on the wing, and (per the talk) locates and identifies targets by their wingbeat micro-Doppler signature using ~40 kHz sonar. Bats have been running exactly this predation strategy on flying insects for tens of millions of years, so evolutionary theory doesn't have to guess here; it can extrapolate from a system that already reached equilibrium. **First, the clock speeds — the "calculation" part.** Selection response scales with number of generations, not years. So the real variable is generation time. Mosquitoes in a warming world are extraordinarily fast. At 30°C, Aedes aegypti can complete the full egg-to-adult cycle...

 IODS — Intra-Organismal Data Symbiosis Biology's most productive metaphor is also its most misleading. We call genes "master regulators," frame CRISPR as "editing the code of life," and treat the gap between genotype and phenotype as a sampling problem. The metaphor of DNA-as-blueprint has driven enormous scientific progress — but the inference from experimental convenience to ontological primacy is an error, and one with real consequences for how we design research, interpret data, and allocate funding. Intra-Organismal Data Symbiosis (IODS) is a new theoretical framework that takes a different position. Developed across two companion papers, IODS proposes that living organisms are organised through the structured interdependence of multiple data modalities — DNA, the epigenome, proteome, metabolome, microbiome, and behaviour — none of which occupies a permanent causal summit. This is not the naïve claim that "everything matters equally." That would ...

 

 Sinop’ta nükleer santral işi karıştı 07.05.2015 09:41 Her işte bir hayır vardır derler... Sinop’ta nükleer santral yapacak ortaklıkta durum karıştı. Ortaklardan biri güç durumda.  Sinop’ta santral yapacak halleri yok gibi... (Hayır şurada: Sinop bir yarımada. Şehir denizle iç içe. Şehrin burnunun dibine su soğutmalı nükleer santral kurduruluyor. Deniz suyunu alacak, ısıtıp, denize verecek. Sinop sahilleri ve bütünüyle şehir ölecek... Bir ısrar, bir ısrar... İlla da Sinop’ta nükleer santral yapılacak.) Sinop’ta yap-işlet modeli ile 22 milyar dolar yatırım yaparak nükleer santral işini üstlenen “Atmea” grubu, Fransız Areva ve Japon Mitsubishi ortaklığı ile kurulmuş bir müteahhitlik firması. İmzalanan anlaşmaya göre 2017 yılında inşaat başlayacak, 2024’te üretime geçecek.  Yılda 34 milyon kWh (kilovat saat) elektrik üretecek. Akkuyu’nun ise 2019 yılında üretime başlayacağı, yılda 35 milyar kWh elektrik üreteceği söyleniyor. Üretim artıyor (Ara bilgi. Şimdilerde yıllık elekt...