Slogans are for people who need to be told what to think.
You may heard of CRISPR - molecular tool for genome editing? If you did, there is still a chance you may not heard of Professor Mojica, a scientist who discovered and named it.
When recently Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier received Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology, many scientists publicly expressed there should have been a third person on that list - Francisco Mojica.
Are they right? Is Francisco Mojica today what Rosalind Franklin was in 1962 - unfairly forgotten? How much tool development Doudna and Charpentier could have done if Francisco Mojica failed to realize first bacteria have immune system (CRISPR) causing stir and disbelief in scientific community?
The truth is we will never know. Professor Mojica discovered CRISPR. Dr. Doudna and Dr. Charpentier figured out how to utilized it as gene-editing tool. Perhaps, it is also worth to think about would CRISPR be of any importance if Doudna and Charpentier failed to develop it in the tool scientific world uses today. Would Nobel Prize committe care?
I predict that there would be a lot more "controversy" in the future. The time of "mad lonely scientists" is gone. Science is becoming more about the teamwork and the scientific community. Nevertheless, let us acknowledge Professor Mojica for his "mad" idea tha bacteria has an immune system.
This was a very late recording contrasting two news articles about Omicron - so called "Covid super-strain".
I know I haven't been around lately...work...life...However, the 12-years-old clip popped into my feed and I wanted to share it. The reason? This clip provides the great basic understanding into what are the issues with so-called "evidence" related to anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change and the lack of logic when it comes to the interpretation of such evidence. The sad reality is that even after 12 years from this clip, we are still forced to endure nonsensical conclusions that hurricanes hitting Florida are caused by big bad climate change.
The mainstream media is doubling down on the alarmism, and it is not hard to guess why. However, to be fair, consider my little observation an educated guess, an opinion, rather than the fact. Time will show whether I am right.
(1) 'Climate change affects everyone': Europe battles wildfires in intense heat by Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/spain-portugal-battle-wildfires-heatwaves-scorch-southern-europe-2022-07-17/)
If you spent time in Southern Europe, Mediterranean, during summer season - July and August in particular - you probably know that heat-induced wildfires are nothing new. In fact, they are quite common and remarkably devastating for the affected communities, and I have witnessed several in person. Most of the time, the wildfires occur due to heat igniting grasses, especially in the areas where there are broken glass or broken bottles. The glass serves as an amplifier for the sun rays, especially, in the vicinity of dry grasses, or even dry pine needles, and as ...
