mmmmm elictricity
me skin be buzzy, idk why but is nice.
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Cells Use ‘Bioelectricity’ To Coordinate and Make Group Decisions | Quanta Magazine
“We’re used to thinking of the brain as an electric organ. The rest of the body? Not so much. But it would be a mistake to dismiss your other tissues as dumb hunks of electrically inert flesh. Even the protective layers of cells that compose your skin and line your organs use electrical signals to make decisions, according to recent research.
(A cell shrinks, due to a change in its bioelectrical properties, before it is extruded from tissue. The “lightning” flash represents a change in light refraction as the membrane is depolarized and water exits the cell. Original video quality enhanced using AI with creator’s approval. (Images taken every two minutes.) Credit: King’s College London)
Results published in Nature show that cells use bioelectricity to coordinate a complex collective behavior called extrusion, a vital process that ejects sick or struggling individual cells from tissue to maintain health and keep growth in check. Merciless as it might seem, extrusion helps keep you alive. It’s vital for the health of protective epithelial tissues, and when it goes wrong, it can contribute to disease, including cancer and asthma. Until now, it’s been unclear how cells were singled out for this process.
According to the new results, as epithelial tissue grows, cells are packed more tightly together, which increases the electrical current flowing through each cell’s membrane. A weak, old, or energy-starved cell will struggle to compensate, triggering a response that sends water rushing out of the cell, shriveling it up and marking it for death. In this way, electricity acts like a health checkup for the tissue and guides the pruning process.
“This is a very interesting discovery — finding that bioelectricity is the earliest event during this cell-extrusion process,” said the geneticist GuangJun Zhang of Purdue University, who studies bioelectrical signals in zebra fish development and wasn’t involved in the study. “It’s a good example of how a widening electronic-signaling perspective can be used in fundamental biology.”
The new discovery adds to the growing assortment of bioelectrical phenomena that scientists have discovered playing out beyond the nervous system, from bacteria swapping signals within a biofilm to cells following electric fields during embryonic development. Electricity increasingly appears to be one of biology’s go-to tools for coordinating and exchanging information between all kinds of cells.”
“There are electrical currents going through your body all the time, and they’re doing things.”
“Life’s Spark
It’s no coincidence that Frankenstein’s monster sprang to life with a spark. In the late 18th century, just a few decades before Mary Shelley wrote her science fiction masterpiece, the Italian surgeon Luigi Galvani jolted the scientific community with experiments that used metal and electricity to compel disembodied frog legs to kick. He became convinced that there was an “animal electricity” running through life.”
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it is only once in a while that you see someone whose electricity and presence matches yours at that moment.
— Charles Bukowski
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I don’t care, just as long as you get them the hell out of here!!!
(Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan #14)
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Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them
I’ve never heard of plug in solar panels before.
Put the panel outside in the sun, plug the cord into any outlet and it adds to the electricity of your house. No wiring into the electrical panel, etc.
Amazing.
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Dod you turn off the lights today?
Do you turn off the lights?
An enlightening topic from a podcast that’s been called not too bright. Many do turn of the lights when they leave a room, but a good percentage of us leave them on… Even when we go to bed. Learn why, and maybe learn a few dad jokes that will…brighten your day. (hopefully)Street Curb Curiosity – The PodcastCLICK HERE to turn on the episode on Apple Podcasts
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“The burning of an iron wire by the most powerful electric discharge yet produced.” The popular science monthly. April 1900.
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owchies
my headphones keep shocking me and I don’t know why. I just bought them on Sunday and it’s owchies. Not very “:33333333333” of them
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Scientists Find a Way To Control Heat Flow With Electricity - Science News
Scientists have discovered that applying an electric field to certain ceramics can dramatically redirect how heat moves through them. New research from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, carried out with collaborators at The Ohio State University and Amphenol Corporation, is challenging long-held ideas about how heat can be directed through solid materials. […]
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“Electric Enceladus Shocks Scientists”
“For over fifty years, Saturn and Jupiter have provided extraordinary laboratories in space for testing the core tenets of the Electric Universe Model of Cosmology.
In 1979, Voyager 1 captured the first images of Jupiter’s moon Io which revealed filamentary structures exploding hundreds of kilometers into space. Mainstream astronomy concluded they were produced by volcanism—however, Peratt and Destler proved Io’s plumes could only be explained as a plasma discharge in their breakthrough paper published in 1987.
A similar mystery has recently unfolded on Saturn’s Enceladus when filamentary plumes are observed exploding from the surface of this moon. Alas, institutionalized science continues to insist that volcanism—now called cryovolcanism—as the only possible explanation.
Independent researcher Stuart Talbott describes how Enceladus is emblematic of the crisis at the heart of cosmology—an impairment to acknowledge indisputable evidence.”
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“In a first, researchers film treetops glowing during thunderstorms
Glimmer sparked by electrical fields detected in nature for the first time”
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Electricity prices? It’s the data centers and nothing but the data centers.
Power prices: data centres. Nothing but data centres – Pivot to AI Mar 5, 2026
David Gerard: “Brookings talked to four regulators and experts. Here’s a great video. It’s 90 minutes. I don’t expect you to watch it. You should watch it, but you won’t. So, I watched it for you.
Power price rises are from data centres. Nothing but data centres. David Gerard 5 March 2026 Pivot to AI
We’ve been hearing in Pennsylvania that the rise for electricity utility prices is not the data centers. But here’s a summary from a panel from Brookings where they say specifically it’s the data centers. It seems very similar to the propaganda insisting complaints about AI data center water usage are false. And of course the industry has been trying hard to hide the usage of both.
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Trump’s Power Pact: Seven Tech Titans Vow to Halt Data Center Energy Spikes
“Technology firms require some public relations assistance, as individuals tend to believe that if a data facility is established, their electricity expenses will rise,” Trump stated during the gathering. He added, “Some centers were previously opposed by local areas for this reason, but I anticipate the outcome will now be the reverse.”
“Individuals perceive that should a data center be built,…
Trump’s Power Pact: Seven Tech Titans Vow to Halt Data Center Energy Spikes
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This is why our electricity bills are so high right now
New data shows electricity rates rose 5 percent nationwide in 2025.
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Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid
Coal makes a bit of a comeback, if only by accident.
