Slogans are for people who need to be told what to think.
Among peer-review publications, serving noone except perhaps academic careers of their authors, one rarely finds hidden gem with proper, real world application. This is one of those gems - genetically-engineered yeast for antibody delivery!
Now, scientific community has multiple delivery systems - for different contexts and different purposes - and so far, yeast has not been one of them. (For a reason?) However, I am remarkably curious whether the initial success of yeast as delivery system, as reported, can be translated from animal, such as mice, to human. This may be more challenging than one could initially imagine; although we use yeast in every day food preparation (aka bread dough), antibody-delivery might require consumption of active form of yeast. And this is a tricky party becasue, currently, if a person swallows a large amount of active dry yeast, the yeast will begin breaking down sugar compounds found in the stomach for food. As the yeast breaks it down, the stomach will be filled with large amounts of carbon dioxide and alcohol - which can be remarkably uncomfortable experience. If researchers come around this little problem, I wonder can we get rid of 'uncomfortable" and keep some part of "alcohol-production" as a "happy side-effect"?
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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 ...
