The angel has a wikipedia page and the demon does not

Columbia, from Columbus, has always been a common poetic name for the US and it’s this that the ship is named after. The name of BC is one of many on the continent that ultimately derives from Columbus

Though indirectly, it’s named after Columbus… as in Christopher Columbus

There are brain x-rays called pneumoencephalographs where they replace the cerebrospinal fluid with air, x-ray, and then put the fluid back. Pneumoencephalography and angiography were really the only neuroimaging techniques available for most of the 20th century, so it was pretty common.

Genes usually end up highly conserved because they’re essential for normal functioning. Makes sense that you wouldn’t see many of these genes in the chromosome that more than half the population doesn’t have.

A lot of regular bus services around the province are contracted out to private companies too. Translink runs their buses (Coast Mountain Bus Company) and BC Transit runs the buses in Victoria but all the other BC Transit branded buses are either run by municipalities (eg Nanaimo), regional districts (eg Cowichan Valley), or are privately run (eg First Transit in the Fraser Valley). Of course drivers in privately run areas usually get shafted, see the First Transit strike last year

Trapping and relocating also isn’t very effective. There’s pretty much no area that’s both suitable bear habitat and isn’t in another bear’s territory. Relocated bears will often be pushed out of territory after territory for hundreds of kilometres until they end up in another urban area hungry and pissed off.

That’s the definition of a planemo or planetary mass object

Good. Drug prohibition doesn’t work

Will it? Facebook/instagram did a similar thing in response to the Online News Act by banning any Canadian news links and in my experience people blamed facebook not the government

Sounds like something an anti-Hui racist visiting Dali would say

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In cases of cellular stress p53 is activated via phosphorylation. It will then direct the cell to pause its division and to either undergo DNA repair or kill itself. p53 is one of the body’s most important defences against cancer. Mutations causing p53 dysfunction are found in more than half of cancer cases.

Pretty sure he’s only in a defensive posture because the plate was just plopped right in front of him. Crayfish are cannibalistic scavengers so this would actually be a welcome sight.

Imperial (used in the British Empire) vs US customary. The imperial fluid gallon (4.54609 L exactly) was never historically defined in terms of another unit while the US fluid gallon was defined as 231 cubic inches (3.785411784 L exactly). A pint is defined as 1/16 of a gallon in each system, but they can’t agree on how many ounces are in a pint (16 for US, 20 for imperial). Note that there are also imperial and US customary dry gallons and thus imperial and US customary dry pints…