# p-usa: a placebo effect (2): a rosy picture of POTUS Donald’s 2020 re-election prospects.

<< The White House was bracing for another chaotic week in Washington, awaiting potentially explosive public testimony from the ex-FBI director Donald Trump fired last month.  But nearly 400 miles away, his daughter-in-law  was home in North Carolina, painting a rosy picture of the president’s re-election prospects >>

<< No matter that in Washington, many Republicans are so deeply anxious about whether Donald Trump will damage the 2018 congressional election climate that they can't fathom talking about 2020. With the DC-based Trump family embroiled in crisis after crisis, Lara Trump has taken to the road and to the airwaves,
... >>

Katie Glueck. The face of Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign. Jun 07, 2017

http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article154701989.html

FonT

the placebo effect (1):

# p-usa: POTUS race: immediatly, they introduced a placebo within: the "Melania Effect" ... Nov.4, 2016

http://flashontrack.blogspot.it/2016/11/p-usa-potus-race-immediatly-they.html

# s-game: on inspired, then systematic and bounded, generation of "errors" ...

<< When a musician improvises, “the prefrontal cortex is engaged, and one of its functions is conscious self-monitoring, censoring your output (..) That area of the brain is shutting down >>

<< Improvising well means a musician has to shut up the part of the brain that would typically be worried about “wrong” notes, enabling him or her to more easily let go >> Charles Limb

Kristen Page-Kirby. Jazz improvisation (and other types, too) will change your brain. June 1, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2017/06/01/how-messing-around-clears-your-head/

Sound Health: Music and the Mind — The Future of Music and the Mind.  June 3, 2017.

http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/NRMHG

also

2117 - la destra e la sinistra di Hines. Feb. 02, 2007

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2007/02/2117-la-destra-e-la-sinistra-di-hines.html

2124 - attrattore cooperativo bipolare (nell' elastici spigoli). Mar.  05, 2007

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2007/03/2124-attrattore-cooperativo-bipolare.html

"polillo" in:

http://inkpi.blogspot.it

# s-cell: turning stem cells into whatever you want (!)

<< an international team of researchers has a two-part system that can convert the cells to the targets and then remove the remnants of that conversion, leaving only the desired DNA behind to duplicate >>

AA << are using a Tet-On 3G inducible PiggyBac system that is a plasmid they named XLone to achieve insertion, activation and removal >>

A'ndrea Elyse Messer. Two-part system turns stem cells into whatever you want. June 5, 2017

http://news.psu.edu/story/470575/2017/06/05/research/two-part-system-turns-stem-cells-whatever-you-want

Lauren N. Randolph, Xiaoping Bao, et al. An all-in-one, Tet-On 3G inducible PiggyBac system for human pluripotent stem cells and derivatives. Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 1549 (2017) doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-01684-6

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01684-6

# s-chem: solar fuels, a catalytic "dance" to drive

AA << have identified a rapid electronic process that could aid the water-splitting reaction in cobalt-containing catalysts. Cobalt catalysts are relatively inexpensive and could replace more expensive precious metal catalysts in the production of clean energy, most notably solar fuels >>

Chemical "dance" of cobalt catalysis could  pave way to solar fuels. June  3,  2017

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-06-chemical-cobalt-catalysis-pave-solar.html

Casey N. Brodsky, Ryan  G. Hadt, et al. In situ characterization of cofacial Co(IV) centers in CoO cubane: modeling the high-valent active site in oxygen-evolving catalysts.  PNAS (2017) vol. 114 no. 15  pp. 3855–3860 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1701816114

http://m.pnas.org/content/114/15/3855

# n-soc: Andrew calling: the rebellion against Potus Donald's (chaotic) transition

<< In response to news that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, Governor Cuomo [Andrew M. Cuomo] joined California Governor Edmund G. Brown and Washington Governor Jay Inslee to announce the United States Climate Alliance, a coalition that will convene U.S. states committed to taking aggressive action on climate change.  If Washington will not act on climate then the states must >>

Governor Cuomo announces the United States Climate Alliance

https://www.ny.gov/content/united-states-climate-alliance

# s-behav: the multifactorial relationship system evolved in Blenny

AA << investigate the evolution of fangs, venom, and mimetic relationships in reef fishes from the tribe Nemophini (fangblennies) >>

Nicholas R. Casewell, Jeroen C. Visser, et al. The Evolution of Fangs, Venom, and Mimicry Systems in Blenny Fishes. Current Biology. Vol 27, Issue 8, p1184–1191, 24 Apr 2017

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)30269-5

<<  It’s a good venom story >> Rich Pyle.

Christie Wilcox. Beware the blenny’s bite: scientists uncover the toxins in fang blenny venom.  Mar 30, 2017

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/2017/03/30/fang-blenny-venom-toxins/

<< Si tratta del fang blenny, o blennide dalle zanne (..) noto anche come "senza paura", perche' non sembra temere troppo i predatori >>

Gli oppioidi del blennide. Le Scienze vol 586 p 24 Giu 2017

http://www.lescienze.it/

# s-ecol: strange migrations

AA << analyze abundance data over time for 86 tree species/groups across the eastern United States spanning the last three decades >>

AA << show that more tree species have experienced a westward shift (73%) than a poleward shift (62%) in their abundance, a trend that is stronger for saplings than adult trees >>

Songlin Fei, Johanna M. Desprez, et al. Divergence of species responses to climate change. Sci. Adv. 2017; 3:e1603055 17 May 2017

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/5/e1603055