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Why did they expect Astronaut Scott Kelley's telomere shortening to accelerate? (they got longer!)

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2 $begingroup$ The NPR News article and podcast Scientists Share Results From NASA's Twins Study says: SCOTT KELLY (NASA Astronaut): You know, the symptomatic stuff is fine. I don't have any long-term negative feelings, physically, from being in space. Now, there's the things you can't feel. And hopefully, I will never learn that those are a problem. GREENE (Host): Those things you can't feel - well, it turns out they are as small as the protective structures at the ends of his chromosomes. MARTIN (Host): Yeah. These are called telomeres, and normally, they get shorter with age. But what about in space? SUSAN BAILEY (Principle Investigator): What we wanted to do was evaluate telomere length in both of the twins before and after so that we could see, you know, where they st...

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What would this chord progression be called?

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5 There's a section of the melody of Kyari Pamyu Pamyu's song ふりそで〜しょん, specifically the part preceding the chorus, where the composition shifts from a relatively straightforward A mixolydian melody to a rather exotic line which travels over the the following chords, 2 measures: Dmaj -> C♯ min -> C maj -> B min -> Bb maj -> etc The pattern is quite clear once you identify it (although the song uses a variety of voicings to disguise it) -- moving by half-steps and alternating between major and minor. I was wondering, with such a simple pattern and it producing quite an interesting sound, does this technique have a name? Are there other usages of it, particularly in pop music? theory chord-progressions terminology ...