May 16, 2024
Conspiring Molecules
The real story of the pharmaceutical industry
Zita Bretka | Magyar Tudat
Az egész John D. Rockefellerrel (1839-1937) kezdődött, aki olajmágnásként és Amerika első milliárdosaként vonult be a történelembe.
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Conspiring Molecules
The real story of the pharmaceutical industry
Zita Bretka | Magyar Tudat
Az egész John D. Rockefellerrel (1839-1937) kezdődött, aki olajmágnásként és Amerika első milliárdosaként vonult be a történelembe.
Chemosocial Entanglements
How our environment is making us sick—and what we can do about it
From air pollutants to pesticides in food and cosmetic additives, modern life means constant exposure to environmental chemicals. Picking apart the effects will help us boost the health of humans and the planet.
by Graham Lawton
New Scientist | 26 January 2022
Public Health Parasite
Parasite-Host relations are asymmetrical. But what forms of parasitism has global health inherited? How to metabolize this relationship?
Parasite-Host relations are asymmetrical. But what forms of parasitism has global health inherited? How to metabolize this relationship?
Anthropology News | August 3, 2021
Similar research analyzing sewage for the virus has already started in the United States and France.
Tokyo begins sewage study for signs of COVID-19 spread
The Japan Times | May 13, 2020
on the mysterious metabolic-infrastructural pathways of living with covid-19
Encouraging the growth of benign bacteria is a tasty way to preserve vegetables, such as with this easy kimchi recipe, says Sam Wong
Make kimchi at home by cultivating a friendly microbial ecosystem
New Scientist | 26 February 2020
“In this case, the microbes we want to cultivate are principally lactic acid bacteria (LAB). These are hardy – able to tolerate acidic, salty and low-oxygen conditions. They make lactic acid as a result of their metabolism and this, along with the salt used to make kimchi, kills most other bacteria and allows LAB to dominate.”
Disease Multiple
The diseases most people die of have been attributed to unhealthy lifestyles. But evidence now suggests bacteria are to blame, heralding a r
Gaia rebooted: New version of idea explains how Earth evolved for life by Bob Holmes | New Scientist, 20 March 2019
Gaia rebooted: New version of idea explains how Earth evolved for life by Bob Holmes | New Scientist, 20 March 2019
The controversial Gaia hypothesis sees Earth as a superorganism adapted to be perfect for life. A weird type of evolution may finally show how that actually happens.
But there might be another way, says Lenton. What if Gaia works like Ashby’s Homeostat? In other words, he suggests, Earth and the early life on it might have interacted haphazardly at first. Unstable configurations – those, say, with little or no cycling of key elements such as nitrogen – would have failed quickly, requiring life to reboot nearly from scratch. Eventually, though, the system must have stumbled on a stable configuration, with better cycling and tighter regulatory mechanisms. It should be no surprise, then, that the planet of today has strong regulatory systems.
This process, called “selection by persistence”, evades the requirements for competition and reproduction that make natural selection so problematic as a mechanism for explaining the evolution of Earth. “I think of it like a search algorithm,” says Lenton. “[Earth] can undergo repeated trials over time until it falls into a stable configuration. And once it does, that tends to persist.”
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If Lenton is right, this would have triggered a period of planetary instability followed by the gradual emergence of a new, increasingly stable Earth system as the biosphere accumulated fresh metabolic pathways to regulate its novel regime.
Everything from breakfast cereal to ice cream and even water is now laced with extra protein. Is there any evidence that consuming more of i