Albert Chun

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

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@LauraKirk12 Love this - but rather agree about the new app🤣

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@StarSly_0 @now_arsenaI Ødegaard still out

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

SCOTLAND’S 28-YEAR WAIT IS FINALLY OVER 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Kieran Tierney instantly becomes a Scottish Hero on same level as Robert the Bruce, Rob Roy and Sean Connery.

Terrifying night to be a pint of Tennents in Glasgow tonight 🍻

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@GolfDigest He’s still got time to hit a few at Chelsea Piers

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@leafricangooner oh oh Ødegaard! He’s Magic!
(“Magic” - Pilot)

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@minakimes Thanksgiving 김치 for the win

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@peacock Let’s see if we can stream one match first

[Veera Rajagopal  @doctorveera]

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in @Nature

In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (https://t.co/Rk8oZJ0bUj).

Today, a group of scientists from Indiana University reports how that minimal genome evolved over 2000 generations in comparison to the non-minimal genome.

The authors found that even when you reduce a bacterial genome to its absolute minimum where every nucleotide matters, the genome undergoes mutational events generation after generation as much as the non-minimal genome. One simply cannot stop the evolution.

Just over 300 days of evolution (equivalent to 40,000 years in humans) the minimal cell has gained everything it lacked in fitness on day one in comparison to the non-minimal cell.

When comparing the evolved traits between the minimal and non-minimal cells, the scientists found something striking. The evolutionary process increased the cell size of non-minimal cells but not that of the minimal cell. But that is not the striking part.

The scientists were able to identify the key mutation that resulted in cell size evolution. And it turned out that the mutation that helped the non-minimal cells to grow bigger is the same that helped the minimal cells to stay smaller. Growing bigger had a survival advantage for non-minimal cells and not growing bigger had a survival advantage for minimal cells. So, the mutation had a context-dependent effect. This just demonstrates that the evolutionary effects on traits have no absolute direction. All that matter is what is beneficial for the organism's survival.

The conclusion of the paper is metaphorically a quote from the Jurassic Park movie:

“Listen, if there’s one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories, and it crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but . . . life finds a way". (https://t.co/UlxRlb86CT)

https://t.co/zA9OAqSoAu

[The New York Times @nytimes]

An Indiana University student was stabbed in the head on a bus Wednesday, in an unprovoked attack that officials described as a "racially motivated incident."

The school's Asian Culture Center said the stabbing sent "a jolt through our Asian community." https://t.co/278Pi1JYLh

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@FlavorFaze

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@diawlectical @minakimes @eknoeth @KingJosiah54

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@washingtonpost nice to see good sportsmanship from the fans

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@NewYorker So it wasn’t to torture high school lit students?

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@nbcwashington First ballot for Class and Humility Hall Of Fame

[Darren Rovell @darrenrovell]

Congratulations to the person who paid $518,628 LAST NIGHT at the @Lelandsdotcom auction for Tom Brady's last touchdown ball.

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@JBFlint @jasongay this is the case for introducing relegation in the NFL

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This guy is playing professional soccer with an ICD in place

[CNN Football @CNNFC]

"If you take away the result, I'm one happy man. To go through what I've been through, being back is a wonderful feeling"

Christian Eriksen makes first appearance since cardiac arrest 259 days ago

👉 https://t.co/BZiPWVZK5E

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@GageParr1 If there’s any time left in your day, try to squeeze in #TheRescueFilm … I *need* tohear your opinion on this movie

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@skohoro