#documentary #stem #humanities #neurosciences #scifi

The eternal drama.

It is otherwise an underground work with screening at science festivals. So unless the director leaks out the original high-res, following are the steps you can take to ensure that it remains with you, if not for a DMCA takedown (#censorship).

Movie is available on YT. I have saved it.
Step 1: Scrape 1080 without sound (example: keepvid, savefromnet or ytvideodownloader, whichever gives you the best quality)
Step 2: Scrape audio at maximum bitrate (same as step 1).
Step 3: Scrape EN and RU subtitles (opensubtitles or yify subs).
Step 4: Join AV with favorite tools (Adobe Premier Rush, or Sony) *

*don't use windows moviemaker. It is just like the Windows operating system, but much worse.

The original documentary is in Polish.

Use KM player 64, for double subtitles. English subtitles maybe delayed by 10 seconds. Use '[' ']' keys to delay or advance for subtitle synchronisation.

https://youtu.be/w8jEC97xGZA

#EN

#documentary #art

A musical piece set to Hubble's Ultra Deep Field.

https://youtu.be/yDiD8F9ItX0

Commentary:
https://youtu.be/Dl9QvNBOU38

#EN

#interview #ai

LeCun on the state-of-art AI.

https://youtu.be/RUnFgu8kH-4

#EN

#big_history@hidden_variables #biology

Progressive and regressive origin of viruses in context of Endosymbiosis (host-benefitial parascitism).

https://youtu.be/PDkvrWt7qN8

#EN

#history #maths

An excellent lecture on Godel's incompleteness theorem.

https://youtu.be/V9ohtKameio

#EN

#books #reference

Encyclopedia of Systems Biology
Dubitzky et al, 2013

https://libgen.gs/edition.php?id=136832389

#EN

#books #interview #ai

Highlights of the book Why Machines Learn by A. Ananthswamy.

https://libgen.gs/ads.php?md5=3b958c09a9131222ebab1e112987d5ce

https://youtu.be/URtF_UHYBSo

#EN

#publication

Approximately, 3.66x higher odds of death*, almost twice the odds of severe diseases* and requirement of mechanical assist* in ventilation (*p<0.001), for patients with T2DM and Covid-19.

https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-025-11089-w

#EN

#core #physics

A lot of good resources from this creator.

https://youtu.be/ZAqIoDhornk

#EN

#core #biology #big_history@hidden_variables

Embedded in the nature.

https://youtu.be/aXqvQUEr6u4

#EN

#publication

Upto 10 yrs. sensors and biosensors for the electrochemical determination of heavy metals using graphene and graphene-based derivatives are critically reviewed and a meta-analysis is performed. Additionally, toxicity of heavy metals and their contributions to sustainable development goals proposed by the UN are also discussed.

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/15/8/505

#EN

#python

The thing that transformed scientific computation.

https://youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0

#EN

#human_footprint

A few interesting pieces I liked from the past few months.

Supermarkets
https://youtu.be/y0KS9LZ2um8

Impact of human activities on wildlife
https://youtu.be/PnQ0eQrKF4g

Transfer of debt
https://youtu.be/n1jhoU9Mp_U

#EN

#publication

Are PGM-based (Bio)sensors ready for point-of-care diagnostics?

This systematic review examines how personal glucose meters (PGMs) are repurposed as portable, low-cost biosensors to detect environmental pollutants like pesticides and heavy metals. It highlights the challenge of making sensitive lab methods viable for real-world applicability criteria for field-ready devices.

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/15/12/811

#EN

#tips

From time to time YouTube stops working especially after using VPN. This time it was worse and I spent 5 hours trying to figure out the problem. Strangely all sites worked except for YouTube. Additionally, the problem was the same in Edge, Opera and Yandex browsers. In the process I understood the following:

1. In Windows, the hosts file may contain additions that block access to sites. We often use these in illegal registres. For example, after cracking a software to prevent it from communicating online. This was not the case this time.
2. There are SSL handshakes which may fail during connection. I tried resetting, but it didn't work.
3. Cleared all browsing history and tried incognito mode. YouTube still didn't load.
4. I flushed the DNS and did other internal and router resets. Nothing worked.

Finally, I read an interesting bit of advice - to try Firefox. Apparantly Firefox doesn't use chromium. It worked.

I now ported back to Firefox after 12 years. I wish I had done this earlier. I was under the impression that all's well that googled well. But Firefox did the trick. It is smoother and has Ubuntu style tab layout. But quite frankly I would have ported to Microsoft Edge if it meant YouTube could work.

Also immediately I changed flags in Firefox for window timeouts, otherwise there is a delay in going full screen in YouTube.

YouTube now works in all browsers again, but once Firefox. Always Firefox. :)

#EN

#publication

How to tackle antibiotic resistance?

Increasing antibiotic use leads to antimicrobial resistance, demanding rapid and affordable detection strategies. In this systematic review and meta-analysis a decade of graphene-based electrochemical sensors for antibiotics detection and challenges associated with these (bio)sensors are evaluated.

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/16/5/234

#EN