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Cake day: March 19th, 2022

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  • Right! But, if you zoom out, it’s not exactly too wild. Ground squirrels have voles beat in size and they have habitat overlap with both living underground. Additionally, dietary shifts give animals the flexibly to respond to changes in the environment plus foraging risks and opportunities. It’s been known since the early 2000’s that squirrels can supplement some of their diet with insects or bird eggs/baby birds. Knowing this, it starts to make a lot more sense ground squirrels would hunt voles, as the environment is rapidly changing, they’re known to already hunt a bit, and voles could be their annoying neighbor.
























  • Well, vaccines are very different than antibiotics. While there was the first new antibiotic made in ages earlier this year that’s highly selective for specific bacteria, it only works against gram-negative bacterial cells. C. diff is gram-positive and has been an issue for a long time. It’s notorious for it’s recurrence rate as it’s great at surviving conditions which kill most bacteria. It infects 500,000 people each year, with 20%+ of them being a reoccurring infection. Since new antibiotics are very tough to engineer, a vaccine makes way more sense and it will provide treatment for half a million people annually moving forward!










  • I mean, the research paper from the study doesn’t reference dopamine at all. It focuses on electric pulses associated with visual interpretations of the environment. It does reference a reward system stating “arguably the main purpose of extracting the underlying structure of temporal sequences is to predict what is likely to happen next in order to choose appropriate actions and maximize reward.” But it appears as if this is variable for each situation for each participant. Nonetheless, I like where your head’s at, I just don’t see it being associated with the analysis.