“If we could knock down viruses in honey bee colonies, it could lead to greater health in other pollinators.”
Source: A new study shows how mushrooms could save bees. Yes, mushrooms.
Cool article, cool idea from a great guy. It is a positive action rather than a negative one (killing things that you don’t like). Some of us could buy an extract to put out for the wild bees :-)
He or she hopped in and out of my filters several times while I watched! I’m such a voyeur. laughing. Shaking its feathers dry as it got out. We have had a lot of wind and dust in the last couple of days. Santa Ana winds. My car is covered in dust and needs a bath too :-) Happy to provide non-toxic algaecide free water for this particular bird’s feathers.
Think about this my friends: anything that’s in the water that a bird bathes in stays with the bird. When the bird gets out it doesn’t towel off. It dries out which concentrates any toxins that were in the water. The bird then grooms and ingest the toxins or the toxins enter its skin.
Why wouldn’t you want to filter your pool or pond in a way that looks good and benefits animals? — Instead of toxic chemicals and a big plastic canister?
Just a thought.
😉
I went looking for the latest information on Fukushima. How many of you are still watching Fukushima? The last I saw 6 months ago the radiation was still so intense that it “melted” the robot they were trying to send down. As far as I know they still haven’t found the lost core material.
But what I came across was a lot of non-scientists claiming that the salmon collapse on America’s North West Coast this year was due to the radiation plume coming across the ocean.
(They are still pumping a lot of water through Fukushima and letting it carry the radiation out into the ocean)
Salmon collapse? What salmon collapse? I haven’t seen any news stories on salmon collapse and I look at news stories from Al Jazeera, the BBC, Reuters, ….
So I looked for 2018 salmon articles.
These are all different articles on different salmon fishing areas.
First article:
Commercial sockeye fishing in Yakutat has been closed due to historic low returns, leaving set-netters in a bind until coho and chum season later in the summer. Unlike other salmon fisheries around the Southeast, biologists never saw this coming.
Source: Yakutat sockeye fishery blindsided by historic low return
Second article:
Because of dramatic declines in salmon returns this year, Governor Walker declared an economic disaster for the Chignik fisheries region today. Current harvest rates are low enough to threaten the communities of Chignik, Chignik Lagoon, Chignik Lake, Perryville, and Ivanof Bay, which depend on the subsistence and commercial availability of salmon.
Another quote from this story:
Chignik is used to catching more than a million sockeye every year. This year, they caught 128 fish,” said Governor Walker.
Third article:
Alaska’s salmon fisheries continue to lag alarmingly in several regions, with overall catches down by a third from the same time last year.
The single exception is at the unconquerable Bristol Bay, where a 37 million sockeye catch so far has single-handedly pushed Alaska’s total salmon harvest towards a lackluster 60 million fish.
Source: Alaska salmon catch down by a third in most regions | National Fisherman
Oh my freaking… The one place that the Fisheries haven’t absolutely crashed (Bristol Bay) they fish them heavily to make up for the lack of fish in other areas.
It must be that the political puppy scientists know that this isn’t just insanity right?
Oh and by the way back to Fukushima, I wouldn’t be eating any food that comes from Japan. Oh wait we can’t know where it comes from.
Sorry.
But don’t panic!
Do what you can to live the best way possible.
Try to minimize your impact on the world which is having a tough time.
And think about what you do!
The best to you all!
Bob
Awesome!
This is the best permaculture garden that I am aware of anywhere! Live with the world not against it.
And from their recent news letter….
Not only finches frolic here… Our new game camera…
…discovered who was responsible for pushing down the bog grass and irises around the Finch Frolic Garden Permaculture pond: a mother raccoon and her three naughty babies. They are there every night, hopefully hunting the invasive bullfrogs. The glowing eyes from a rabbit are to the left, and the eerie glow from under the overturned boat is just a metallic reflection. The camera has also picked up lots of ducks, a coyote, the backside of a snowy egret, a neighbor’s cat (keep your cat indoors!), and a red shouldered hawk who likes to come walk in the grass!
If you have never been here I highly, highly recommend it.
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The Centers for Disease Control hasn’t reported any deaths in 2018 from acute flaccid myelitis, the polio-like illness which paralyzes healthy children, but CNN has learned of two children who passed away from the disease this year.
Source: Parents accuse CDC of not reporting children’s deaths from polio-like AFM
People, especially in the US, throw the word “lying” around today as if it is a badge of honor. They wave their flag of proudness claiming to have recognized someone else’s lie.
In most cases using a specific choice of words is not a lie. Deliberately not reporting complete information is a Lie By Omission but there are those that claim that that is not specifically lying.
However, the United States Congress passed a law that states that when testifying, if your intent is to deceive Congress that it is perjury AKA a lie. What is good enough for our government to ask of us is good enough for us to ask of them. After all something they don’t seem to remember very often is that we are their boss.
Every time I hear or see a story linking the micro encephaly outbreak in South America to zika I know that my government specifically the CDC is lying to me again. Because their intent I believe is to deceive. And one way of looking at it is that every day that goes by where they do not correct their story is a Lie By Omission.
I have to ask is the CDC lying to protect me from a “panic”? Or is it to protect the companies that are doing business in the biomedical area.
The Big Brother idea of government where it chooses to lie, cheat, and steal in order to protect us is unacceptable if one is trying to live with the world and not against it.
I am worried that the AFM virus outbreaks are in part because of our mandatory vaccination policies and are likely to get worse.
I also believe that:
The molt inhibitor pesticides that target zinc finger DNA regulatory systems are not a good idea for us.
Xenografts are not a good idea for us.
Antibiotics in cattle feed are not a good idea for us and they are morally reprehensible.
The best to all the vegans out there who are vegan _not because it’s healthier for people_ but because it’s a kinder unselfish world view.
Bob
“America used to wage war on _poverty_ not on _the poor_.”
I am convinced that building McMansions for some and forcing others to live on the street is not sustainable. Where do you think you will be in 20 years?
Source: Wes White
Investigation of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in U.S. children, 2014-2016.
386 and counting.
This year, more than half of all US states have had confirmed or possible cases of acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, the polio-like illness that can cause paralysis and mostly affects children, according to a new CNN analysis.
Source: Most states facing confirmed or possible cases of polio-like illness
I have speculated recently that as the portion of our population that has natural immuninity to a disease ages and dies off that the fraction of our population that has only been vaccinated becomes the dominant fraction and this may be a problem.
Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28526070/
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked disease caused by mutations in the DMD gene and loss of the protein dystrophin. The absence of dystrophin leads to myofiber membrane fragility and necrosis, with eventual muscle atrophy and contractures. Affected boys typically die in their second or third decade due to either respiratory failure or cardiomyopathy. Despite extensive attempts to develop definitive therapies for DMD, the standard of care remains prednisone, which has only palliative benefits. Animal models, mainly the mdx mouse and golden retriever muscular dystrophy (GRMD) dog, have played a key role in studies of DMD pathogenesis and treatment development. Because the GRMD clinical syndrome is more severe than in mice, better aligning with the progressive course of DMD, canine studies may translate better to humans. The original founder dog for all GRMD colonies worldwide was identified in the early 1980s before the discovery of the DMD gene and dystrophin. Accordingly, analogies to DMD were initially drawn based on similar clinical features, ranging from the X-linked pattern of inheritance to overlapping histopathologic lesions. Confirmation of genetic homology between DMD and GRMD came with identification of the underlying GRMD mutation, a single nucleotide change that leads to exon skipping and an out-of-frame DMD transcript. GRMD colonies have subsequently been established to conduct pathogenetic and preclinical treatment studies. Simultaneous with the onset of GRMD treatment trials, phenotypic biomarkers were developed, allowing definitive characterization of treatment effect. Importantly, GRMD studies have not always substantiated findings from mdx mice and have sometimes identified serious treatment side effects. While the GRMD model may be more clinically relevant than the mdx mouse, usage has been limited by practical considerations related to expense and the number of dogs available. This further complicates ongoing broader concerns about the poor rate of translation of animal model preclinical studies to humans with analogous diseases. Accordingly, in performing GRMD trials, special attention must be paid to experimental design to align with the approach used in DMD clinical trials. This review provides context for the GRMD model, beginning with its original description and extending to its use in preclinical trials.
My wife died of muscular dystrophy and adored the care dogs visiting her in the hospital and rehab hospitals. She would be appalled that we are using animals particularly dogs this way. And I can’t speak for the men that get this particular genetic variant, but I believe that if it was me, that I would not wish it on another living animal. Specifically breeding animals to live in suffering and then torture them while they’re suffering in order to do “science” is ….
I am a microbiologist and bacterial geneticist. I have killed an awful lot of bacteria in my day. But to do this to a living, breathing, animal with a brain and a nervous system is ….
I am speechless.
Researchers at Cornell University found glyphosate in all 18 ofthe dog and cat food brands they surveyed, including one product that was certified GMO-free.
I have posted before that it’s likely to have been injuring your dogs and cats. And I hope everyone reading this understands that gmo-free is not organic and not likely to be herbicide free. It’s just a marketing ploy. And also that organic itself has a lot of toxins sprayed on it. The agro-chemical companies have just had those toxins approved for “organic”.
> Enjoy Bob
