Readit NewsMagic mushrooms, in particular, love cow dung as a growing medium.
That being said, fungus tends to be nigh indestructible. The guy boiled it before injection which really speaks to just how hardy those spores can be.
No, he poured boiling water over the mushrooms - big difference. Plenty of time for boiling water to cool before killing all of the spores.
And yet Linksys (and others) still sell their closed routers as well. One can only concluded that the Open Source support, while important for a niche group, is not enough for market dominance...
No, not so. Plenty of VPN apps based on network extensions are delivered outside the Mac App Store. In fact, most commercial VPNs are done this way. My company uses GlobalProtect for example, and I can install it any number of ways, and it’s been NE based for over a year now...
But imagine if, in the year 2120, we discover thriving colonies of live bacteria 40 meters below the surface of Mars. Life on another world! It would change everything! But suppose upon further inspection the bacteria turn out to be a species from Earth, stowed away stuck to the treads of the Perseverance rover [1].
Was there life on Mars before we put it there? Was there a unique kind of Martian life, with DNA completely different from ours, that has been forever eaten away by our accidental contamination? We would never know.
For this reason, NASA and the Soviets agreed in 1967 to pursue a policy of Planetary Protection [2] ensuring that no probe or lander contaminates another planet.
[1] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/mars_2020/launch/mi...
Really? How? What is one aspect of life that would change for anyone not in the space exploration industry?
This is why you have extreme disparity between countries like Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam vs America, Europe, Japan.
40% doesn't mean you are catching 40% of the viruses here. It means your detection is only at 40% capacity, like your vision.
I'm arguing for multiple PCR tests spread out over a few weeks to make up for this low accuracy. I doubt many people will put up with it like they did in South Korea or Taiwan. Especially North America where the individual rights come before the well being of society.
I actually thought that North American and Europe were anti-fragile, this virus quickly proved otherwise. How do you force individuals to comply with rules that is designed for the greater good when they've been told all their life their individual needs come first and the rest of society has to accommodate them?
Even getting people to wear masks is still an issue. I'm utterly disillusioned after 2020, the racist attacks from both sides of the political spectrum, the misinformation built upon centuries of stereotypes and exceptionalism, and a politically divided environment to boot.
As soon as we get more data on the vaccine's effectiveness on dealing with mutation variants over 1 or 2 years, I am getting the fuck out of North America and taking all the jobs with me.
Because this isn't the first pandemic and it sure as hell won't be the last, and I highly doubt people will have learned their lesson. Conspiracy, memes, and other incompetent thinking that arises from laziness. People in North America and Europe have lived comfortably for a long time post-WW2, relying on economic hegemonies, military intervention, immigration to do the dirty work, and I believe they are in decline now. Sure America will remain #1 military superpower but front lines have simply shifted away from trenches to our minds where you can conquer and control how people think in foreign countries. This is what unrestricted warfare looks like and we are seeing the fruit of this labor to the delight of its enemies.
[1] I recall reading Dr. Feigl-Ding's twitter last year which pointed to an American journal that cited this figure back in 2020 but I can't find it right now.
International travel is an orderly place to apply a filter, just as hospitals test all admits (even those without symptoms).
Blocking all visitors from specific places – even places with lower rates of prevalence than here! – was silly theater. This is actually well-targeted to reducing the interactions of the likely-infected with the uninfected.
(If a city or state/province even wanted to set up internal borders, & require on-the-spot quick antigen tests to enter regions of actual or attempted-infection control, perhaps even anonymously, that'd also be a well-targeted intervention far better than the other theater we've been fed so far.)
Some may, but that's a county/state decision.
To make matters worse, given that pedophilia and child porn is now tied up with QAnon, some of her peers have started to have their accounts banned when they report this stuff, as apparently they’re being caught up in an anti-conspiracy filter.
Sigh...