Scientists found an amoeba thriving at 63°C in a Lassen Volcanic hot spring, a new heat record for complex life. https://www.sciencealert.com/volcanic-springs-amoeba-survives-63-c-setting-a-new-heat-record-for-complex-life #Extremophiles #Biology #Science

The brain's front and back halves develop from separate cell lineages that never overlap, a split conserved for 550 million years across mice, chickens, zebrafish, and acorn worms. #Neuroscience #Evolution #Biology https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-human-brain.html

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking." —Joan Didion #writing https://lithub.com/joan-didion-why-i-write/