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New York Times: Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid: ‘We Have an Electric Planet’
Electroactive bacteria were unknown to science until a couple of decades ago. But now that scientists know what to look for, they’re finding this natural electricity across much of the world, even on the ocean floor. It alters entire ecosystems, and may help control the chemistry of the Earth.
“Not to sound too crazy, but we have an electric planet,” said John Stolz, a microbiologist at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.
Fanciful, perhaps, but we could ultimately make wires out of organic material.
For First Time Ever, Scientists Have Cured Living Creatures of HIV and Eliminated Virus From DNA Entirely
In a major collaborative effort, researchers have for the first time ever eliminated all traces of HIV from the genomes of living animals.
The study, which was reported online in the journal Nature Communications this week, marks a critical step toward the development of a possible cure for human HIV infection.
Bill in Portland Maine said
”CHEERS to going on a little stroll. As we enter the last year and a half of his accidency, it's worth reminding ourselves that Donald Trump's attempt to re-jigger the United States as a fascist paradise has been thwarted time and again by an army of persistent democracy-loving Americans doing end-runs around his bloated carcass. One of them this week was Senator and 2020 candidate Cory Booker (D-NJ), who put on his walkin' shoes down at the border and … [Continued in Bill’s Friday diary.]
And from WolverineForTJatAW who is GREAT at supporting our purposes:
I am getting tired of people whining that all is lost. What if it is NOT true that all is lost? If it’s NOT true, then:
- Giving up makes it more true
- Failing to work to make things better is a bad example for others
- Hiding under the bed waiting for armageddon is harder on our bodies, minds, and spirits right this minute than working to make something better
- If all is lost, what have you got to lose? FIGHT!
- What if YOUR part is the straw on the camel’s back that will make ALL the difference?
Nothing makes me feel more like a snowflake than giving up when times are tough. Giving up is easy. Giving up is chickenshitted. Get up! FIGHT!
I’m going to be able to look at myself in the mirror, at the end of the day, and say “I TRIED. I tried, and I tried, and I tried, and I tried.”
If we are not part of the solution, we are part of the problem.
BE PART OF THE SOLUTION.
An homage to silverfoxcruiser for bringing quotes to Roundups every day
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else — save in the rare cases where this would make known to the enemy information of military value which would otherwise be unknown to him.” ~Theodore Roosevelt