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Simone Weil, excerpt from Waiting for God

You are a gracious host allowing their words in clothing and feeding them until they live in you

Propriety says to guard the entrance hospitality to open the door but if it is opened once surely they will come for more and more "More, please... for I am hungry. Do you know hungry?"

Do I know hungry? Won't you listen to me? Stranger, come closer, come behind the curtain I can show you an entire world of fascinating things of...something someone else showed me

Searching with my life between my teeth gnawing on the aftermath I leave behind the curtain, always open enough to mix the outside with the in Have I returned to the air? Broken the cup and shown that inside and outside are temporary boundaries that oneness is only a crack away

Give me a secret, God give me something beautiful and holy give me a name, give me a way to change

I have gone to the place beyond heaven rested in renewing fields Us humans crawl there on our coarse bones and stretch the muscles of our earthly bodies over the infinite gap we let loose our longing and pull back the reins with all our strength filtering our ache through an inch of space until we lay down, sated, expended

Where can the weary soul go when I forgot you, I lost hope I pooled at the bottom of the great mountain my limbs extended, seeking, sprawling until the bits of me began to dissipate and I searched in the sky

I could not find you only love reminded me of the wings I was missing I feel you always behind me even when I believe nothing

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Scientists in China have synthesized spider silk from genetically modified silkworms, producing fibers six times tougher than the Kevlar use

Scientists in China have synthesized spider silk from genetically modified silkworms, producing fibers six times tougher than the Kevlar used in bulletproof vests. The study, published September 20 in the journal Matter, is the first to successfully produce full-length spider silk proteins using silkworms. The findings demonstrate a technique that could be used to manufacture an environmentally friendly alternative to synthetic commercial fibers such as nylon. "Silkworm silk is presently the only animal silk fiber commercialized on a large scale, with well-established rearing techniques," said Mi. "Consequently, employing genetically modified silkworms to produce spider silk fiber enables low-cost, large-scale commercialization." Scientists have eyed spider silk as an enticingly sustainable alternative to synthetic fibers, which can release harmful microplastics into the environment and are often produced from fossil fuels that generate greenhouse gas emissions. But turning to nature for alternatives isn't without challenges.