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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.

www.puravidaaquatic.com/ 310-429-8477

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.
www.puravidaaquatic.com/ 310-429-8477

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

Have fun and learn about Sustainability.

Ramona California.

PuraVida Aquatic will have a small booth with information. And while the Sustainable Ramona Facebook page does not say anything about it, I would highly recommend bringing the seating of your choice blankets or chairs and plenty of water. It is at a community garden and thus there will be plenty of water spigots but if you don’t want to drink tap water there will be bottled water for sale too. Plus there will be…

Live Bands All Day.

Saturday, April 23, 2022, Noon to 6:00 p.m.
Co-hosted by
Sustainable Ramona and
Ramona Community Garden.

Event Site: 11th St & San Vicente Rd Ramona. https://maps.app.goo.gl/QxG8Gc13fvVtDihT6

Multiple bands
Western Swing, Bluegrass, Oldies (50’s, 60’s, 70’s), Latin Jazz & Soul, Acoustic Duet and Environmental Songs.

Suggested donation: $10 adults, $5 for those 16 and younger.
Checks accepted: made payable to Ramona Community Garden with memo line Earth Day Festival.

Or buy tickets in advance Mail to: Earth Day Festival Committee, PO Box 491 Ramona, CA 92065.
For more information, go to: SustainableRamona.com.

First Annual
Ramona Earth Day Festival
Saturday, April 23, 2022, Noon to 6:00 p.m.
Co-hosted by
Sustainable Ramona and
Ramona Community Garden

https://maps.app.goo.gl/QxG8Gc13fvVtDihT6

Ahead of World Water Day, Metropolitan Water District officials Monday called on Southern Californians to significantly reduce their water use and warned of the possibility of mandated water conservation measures.

Source: Water officials call for increased conservation, warn of mandatory restrictions in SoCal

Adel Hagekhalil, general manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California [said] “That means the only water we get is for drinking and firefighting – so no watering of lawns.”

The EPA has approved Oxitec’s modified skeeters for release into the wild, as part of a strategy to reduce mosquito-borne diseases.

Source: 2 Billion Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Cleared for Release in California and Florida

Well in some ways this is better than pesticides and in some ways worse. But I have to wonder why I have to learn this from Gizmodo rather than NBCs, ABCs, or CBSs local news affiliates. When you take an oath taking the stand in a court of law you promise to tell the truth, _the whole truth_ , and …. There are a lot of people that believe that lying by omission is a lie. Sigh. It is all good!

Sources
https://bigthink.com/thinking/the-voltage-effect/
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-asch-conformity-experiments-2794996

Everyone in the room was shown a picture with three lines of varying lengths, in which one line was very obviously longer than others. Each person in the room was asked to state out loud which was the longest line. After the early confederates all identified the wrong line, more than a third of the participants, on average, went along with the clearly incorrect answer; over the course of twelve trials a whopping 75 percent went along with the obviously wrong answer in at least one instance. In contrast, when no confederates were present to tempt them to hop on their bandwagon, virtually all subjects chose the correct answer—demonstrating just how easily our independent judgment can be subsumed by our desire to “fit in” or be “one of the pack.”

This isn’t really confirmational bias but it is a bias. And it’s particularly relevant to our view of News.

Another

Given the sequence 2, 4, 6, for example, they typically formed a hypothesis that the rule was even numbers. Then the participants would present other sequences of even numbers, and researchers would tell them whether or not those numbers conformed to the rule. Through this process, participants were tasked with determining whether their hypothesis was correct. After several correct tries the participants believed that they had discovered the rule. But in fact they hadn’t, because the rule was much simpler: increasing numbers.

The most interesting aspect of this study (and the many others like it) is that almost all subjects only tested number sequences that conformed to their personal hypothesis, and very few tried a number sequence that might disprove their hypothesis. Wason’s experiment demonstrated that most people, regardless of intelligence, fail to examine their hypotheses critically. Instead, they try only to confirm them by “fast thinking,” using quick heuristics, or mental shortcuts.

This is definitely confirmational bias and Ooooops. They would have gotten me … 10, 16, 26 (see the pattern?) I would not have tried decreasing or negative numbers :-). And I’m better than some. Do you read Al Jazeera? Or Tass? Maybe the South China Morning Post? or do you only read American or Western news.

BTW American Democratic news versus Republican news is still only Western news.
Best to you all.