Human mtDNA Updated 2025-07-16
This was the first large part of the genome that was sequenced, in 1981: Cambridge Reference Sequence. Presumably they picked it because it is short and does not undergo crossover.
About 16.6 kbp:
TODO: many places say "exactly" 16,569, it seems that variable number tandem repeat are either rare or don't occur!
Luxury goods Updated 2025-07-16
One of the things Ciro Santilli most deeply despises.
Real luxury is to understand quantum field theory and number theory.
Clothing/jewelry/car luxury is at worst a way to show off. And at best a replacement for nature/the countryside. People living in big cities have lost nature, and to some, looking at luxury goods (or watching television) serves as a (unsatisfactory) replacement.
Music Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli took courses once upon a time, maybe that has influenced his passion? Ciro Santilli's musical education.
Arginine Updated 2025-07-16
Balloon Updated 2025-07-16
TEM vs SEM Updated 2025-07-16
TEM: sample has to be very thin, you get a 2D image. Higher resolution possible.
SEM: sample does not need to be ultra thin, you get a 3D image. Lower resolution possible.
Art trend Updated 2025-07-16
Art young Ciro Santilli consumed Updated 2025-07-16
Maybe those are genial. Maybe not. Nostalgia is just too strong to discern. Ciro still goes back to them for rest.
Quote Updated 2025-07-16
Sitar player Updated 2025-07-16
Selenocysteine Updated 2025-07-16
Like cysteine, but with selenium instead of sulfur.
The weird one, not directly coded in the genetic code.
Tabla Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
Jugalbandi in Chartaal-Ki-Sawari from album Together (1990)
Source. Background?
Video 2.
Taal Pancham Sawaari by Zakir Hussain
. Source. The top YouTube commend mentions:
This video was made in 1970, on Zakir's first visit to the USA. He and Aashish Khan (keeping taal next to him) had a guest residency at UW Seattle, under the ethnomusicology dept. set up by Robert Garfias.

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