Fig trees convert atmospheric CO₂ to stone, research reveals

17 PaulHoule 4 7/26/2025, 1:57:02 PM phys.org ↗

Comments (4)

bcraven · 18h ago
I must say, "Fig tree in Africa. Credit: Mike Rowley" is one of the shittest photos I have ever seen. Wow.

https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2025/fig-trees-convert...

thimkerbell · 14h ago
If you (or phys.org) are posting a rewritten press release for research results that have not yet successfully undergone peer review, you need to say so at the outset.
PaulHoule · 10h ago
Write them, they can use all the complaints they can get.

My first paper was https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9512055v1 which eventually got published in Physical Review E but the abstract for a talk I gave at the March Meeting of the APS caught the eye of a reporter at Science News so I had the cover story one week, I think before the real publication.

The magazine printed a photo I took of Ron Maimon crumpling paper on the sofa of my office with an apparatus that I invented. Ron never completed his PhD on string theory but he eventually became a notorious 9/11 "truther" and conspiracy theorist.

gsf_emergency_2 · 6h ago
I wouldn't recommend complaining.. bellyfeels only

Thus said, PR's can look like narcissism .. those who call it out are some of the prigs Uncle Paul warned us about :)

Schizotypes too.. it's the peer-unreviewed grandiosity i suppose. what would Kohut say?

Wish I'd discovered Ron earlier. His *overflow throwaways make me want to mine his conspiracy theories :) hope somebody addressing his emotional holes RN

If I had to guess your ex a Borderline. Glad dang concurs on the method.. (?) if that kinda helps/works it'd be worth internalizing

Equivalently I'd have to deal with the (situational?) emo holes associated with Stripe before I can internalize "their" (alien) way of thinking[0] :) but maybe you already have more experience there:

https://xcancel.com/patrickc/status/1848393059559502177

Stripe acquires Stablecoin s-u Bridge

Fun thing of his to equate htsc with sc. It's one of those things nobody has to or will shout about when they've got it

[0] with Daub as a bedside reference/biblio

https://www.adriandaub.com/s/NOTES-What-Tech-Calls-Thinking....

https://www.adriandaub.com/books/what-tech-calls