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This production is art. This production is what some artists used to be. The ancient artists Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Vincent van Gogh used state of the art techniques in construction, chemistry, cameras, mirrors, and many other cutting edge techniques of their time to form their art. This series of productions by Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong (YDAW) is _art_ and is exquisite in the ideas espoused.
You rock YDAW.
But ignore my ranting and please watch the video. https://youtu.be/PRXVIQosRkM
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Jared Wilson’s struggle to keep his John Deere tractors running highlights the stranglehold the company has on the people who produce America’s food.

Source: Farmer Says Dealer Wouldn’t Repair His Tractor Until He Filed FTC Complaint

Just my opinion: but it seems to me that John Deere does not believe in sustainability.

We must do better.

Source: There’s a Major Issue With How We Treat Lab Mice, And It Could Affect Study Results

Over 120 million laboratory rats and mice are used worldwide each year. Many are used to study distressing conditions like cancer, arthritis and chronic pain, and nearly all spend their lives in small, empty box-like cages: a kind of permanent lockdown.

“empty box-like cages: a kind of permanent lockdown”
I can’t tell you how many people I know who are angry that they were inconvenienced by the covid lockdowns and yet are completely indifferent to the suffering of animals who are locked down for _not 2% of their lives but for their entire lives_.

People need to begin to understand how badly our experimental animals are treated. We had to pass a law so that chickens kept for egg laying were given the ability to to spread their wings in the cages that they lived in all their lives! We treat research animals far worse in many cases! The cosmetic industry, the medical industrial complex, and the pesticide industry use many thousands of animals (literally millions worldwide) to test their products. Lab rats and mice are just the tip of the iceberg many of the dogs and cats that are not able to be “sold” as pets are sold to these “research” groups.

That said, the article above also illustrates how the stress that we experience in our lives affects our immune systems. One of the reasons I was upset about the reaction by our governments to covid was how much stress was implicit in their mandates. Be well my friends.

Wetlands are Earth’s most efficient natural storage system for climate-warming carbon dioxide. Human activities such as marsh draining for agriculture and logging are increasingly eating away at saltwater and freshwater wetlands. These vital areas cover only 1% of Earth’s surface but store more t

Source: Earth’s Most Efficient Natural Storage System: Land-Building Marsh Plants Are Champions of Carbon Capture

David Bennett died two months after groundbreaking surgery in which a genetically modified pig’s heart was transplanted into him

Source: Man who received landmark pig heart transplant died of pig virus, surgeon says

@!*$&&@+ &$#$@&+ $$&@#&$$! &@/$*!? Far, far, _far_ worse than Covid insanity in my opinion. This is the first proof I have seen that the concerns about xenografts are real. We’re worried about people living with their animals and creating pandemics of animal flu. And yet Western doctors regularly put _living_ animal tissue into people.

_seriously not a good idea_. http://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/xenografts/

One of the best descriptions of deep sea thermal vent habitats that I have yet to see. And just as a fun fact notice when they talk about the type of animal that lives at 80° C I think it was an anemone (very close to 200 Fahrenheit! – I was once marked wrong on a biology exam because I said that just because we didn’t know of an animal that would grow\live over 45° C yet didn’t mean one didn’t exist laughing.

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Last year I had a big praying mantis on a little fruit tree and I would regularly go over and try to feed it bugs; caterpillars, things I found eating some of the plants in my garden. When I first started, it would scurry around to the other side of the trunk and I would put the bug on the trunk and walk away trying to keep an eye on what it did and it started over some weeks scurrying back around fairly quickly and grabbing whatever I had put down.

As the weeks progressed, it didn’t run around to the other side of the tree as much. Finally it didn’t run at all and I would hold the bug out wiggling between my fingers and it would take the item from my fingers. It got colder as the year got into November and while it survived several freezing nights, it finally disappeared. I had found one of the egg cases that it had laid but months after it disappeared I found a second egg case. And last night, in April they hatched. I found the frayed egg case :-) I also discovered three of them and got some pictures of this one.
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Source: Widely used food additive affects the human gut microbiota

When it was first introduced, xanthan gum was thought to not affect us as it was not digested by the human body. However, the new study shows that the additive nevertheless affects the bacteria that live in our intestines. And these bacteria are important for our health and well-being.

“The gut bacteria we have investigated show genetic changes and a rapid adaptation to enable them to digest this particular additive,” explains professor Phil Pope.

Hmmmmmm maybe I wasn’t that wrong….http://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/3-reasons-no-4-reasons-why-were-fatter-than-30-years-ago/

Might look at this too :-).http://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/monsanto-roundup-attacks-healthy-gut-bacteria-lawsuit/

Source:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-city-council-1.6408301

Edmonton won’t spray pesticides this summer to control mosquitoes after city council voted Monday to use the money on biological pest control and education.

Saying pesticides impact the city’s water supply, the food chain, bird populations and the environment, Coun. Michael Janz suggested the $507,000 requested for the aerial mosquito program on alternative forms of control and public awareness.

Wish that Los Angeles would figure out something like this.

Everything is connected.

Source: Large-Scale Study Reveals Strange Link Between Antibiotics And Cognitive Decline