RuBisCO

Reassortment in segmented RNA viruses: mechanisms and outcomes (2016)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5119462/#F2

You mean Last Week Tonight? The Late Show is Colbert.

'Ere ya go, beltalowda. To go on every bulkhead, on all ships, sasa ke?

That Bass Pro Choice in the background is cool, too!

Between the radio and infrared, it’s probably pretty clear to everyone within 100LY.

Some smart, talented MFers on that side; they’re winning a war and they’re fucked up!

Needs a few more pinkish colors to differentiate factions.

Beat me to it, Bubs. Was gonna say Hamsterdam is lookin clean here.

Sticky, Silky, and Danger Syrup! Sounds like a cool lab.

Oooh Cherenkov blue!

Oh WOW!
That’s…something else entirely.
So violent! Yet also subtle and quiet.
Yields immediate visceral reactions.
The entire instrument is so thoroughly explored.
How does one remember such a piece?
Or keep the original bow and strings to the end?
Striking. Marvelous. Beautiful. I’m all for it.

An amendment of something conjured by it:

It’s not safe out here. It’s wonderous; with treasures vibrations to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it’s not for the timid.

TIL. Thank you!

but the piece that truly brought him to international attention was Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (see threnody and atomic bombing of Hiroshima), written in 1960 for 52 string instruments. In it, he makes use of extended instrumental techniques (for example, playing behind the bridge, bowing on the tailpiece).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Penderecki

Looks like iron sulfide, pyrite, and greigite in this case.

Highlights from this rabbit hole: “imbricating chitinous sclerites” and “conchiolin”.

https://www.marinebio.org/species/scaly-foot-snails/chrysomallon-squamiferum/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15522-3

https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article-abstract/114/4/949/2415936