D.S. Sense’s “On My Detroit Everything”: Self-Articulating Black Girl Magic

Actin senses self-incompatibility

A ctin depolymerization is a death trigger for poppy pollen, according to Thomas et al. (page 221), that prevents self-fertilization. Some plants prefer not to be fertilized by pollen grains that are genetically similar to themselves. These plants express self-incompatibility (S) proteins. A match between the pistil’s S-proteins and the pollen’s S-allele triggers a rapid calcium infl ux, actin ...

Metastable Black Saturns Combining Everything (1) Becomes

Black Saturns have multiple horizons and so offer a testing ground for the ideas of black hole thermodynamics. In this note, we numerically scan for phases that are in equilibrium by extremizing total entropy in the 2-dimensional moduli space of stationary, singly rotating black Saturns with fixed total mass and angular momentum. On top of the known TH = TR, ΩH = ΩR configurations, we find phas...

Socioecological stressor areas and black-white blood pressure: Detroit.

THERE is strong evidence that higher levels of blood pressure are related to higher rates of mortality from coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular attacks, or stroke [e.g. 1,2]. American Negroes have higher blood pressure levels, higher morbidity and mortality from hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, and stroke than their White compatriots [3]. The causes are unknown. This report exam...

Stiff man syndrome in a black girl.

A patient suffering from severe and continuous muscular spasms is presented. The condition has been classified as the stiff man syndrome and is the first case recorded of the condition in a young African girl. The electrophysiological, biochemical, histochemical, and ultramicroscopic aspects of this disorder have been studied. The spasm appears to be related to overproduction of brain noradrena...

Voodoo, Black Magic and the Hawaiian Kahuna.