Mohammad Mostafa, a farmer in the low-lying deltas of southwestern Bangladesh, has revived his forefathers’ farming practice of growing crops on floating rafts as rising seas and storm flooding threaten more and more farmland.
Source: As seas rise, Bangladesh farmers revive floating farms | The Wider Image | Reuters
What metaverse, web3, and artificial intelligence evangelists collectively ignore.
Source: Tech futurism’s blind spot – by Dave Karpf
What if the future isn’t Artificial General Intelligence and 100x increases in computing power? What if it’s cheap-and-flexible mesh networks? What if the future isn’t replacing untrustworthy institutions with blockchain governance? What if it’s replacing untrustworthy global and national institutions with revitalized local trust? What if the metaverse isn’t the future because, in the future, people commit themselves to improving and monitoring their vulnerable surroundings?
Black holes may explode via Hawking radiation, superradiance or through accretion disks and jets.
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have developed a plastic film that can kill viruses that land on its surface with room light. The self-sterilizing film is the first of its kind—it is low cost to produce, can be readily scaled and could be used for disposable aprons, tablecloths, and curtains in hospitals. It is coated with a thin layer of particles that absorb UV light and produce reactive oxygen species—ROS. These kill viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.
Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.
–Ray Bradbury
Landscape fabric causes ecosystem damage and limits functionality. There are better options for suppressing weeds.
Source: Why Landscape Fabric Should be Avoided in a Garden
There are better ways to keep weeds down and create a low maintenance space. Start by avoiding spacing your plants in an area covered with landscape fabric and imported mulch. Instead, choose eco-friendly and sustainable natural options to make your life easier in the garden.
- Select a diverse range of plants suited to your location. Perennials and self-seeders will help to create a more affordable and low maintenance scheme that just gets better over time.
- Combine plants to create areas of dense, layered planting, with less space for weeds. By choosing the right combinations of plants for your polyculture (which will not compete overly with one another), you can sow more densely, with a layered planting scheme.
- Use ground cover planting to protect the soil and reduce weed growth.
- Line beds, borders, or pathways with spring bulbs or other plants to suppress grass and weed ingress into growing areas.
- Choose organic mulches wisely to suit the setting, and ideally source materials from elsewhere in your garden or as close to home as possible. Thick organic mulches won’t eliminate weeds entirely but they can help to keep them under control, while adding fertility and conserving water in the soil.
Dust from all over the world is landing in the Sierra Nevada mountains carrying microbes that are toxic to both plants and humans.
Source: Drought increases microbe-laden dust landing in Sierras
Researchers have developed a small, soft, flexible implant that relieves pain on demand and without the use of drugs. The first-of-its-kind device could provide a much-needed alternative to opioids and other highly addictive medications. It works by softly wrapping around nerves to deliver precise, targeted cooling, which numbs nerves and blocks pain signals to the brain. After the device is no longer needed, it naturally absorbs into the body — bypassing the need for surgical extraction.
Like other large, mobile joints, the hip is more prone to overuse, injury, & other ailments, like hip bursitis. Find out more on the article!
Source: Hip Trochanteric Bursitis – A Runner’s Approach | Runnerclick
This is what I’ve got, with no MM involvement. It’s painful but getting better by itself, more or less. Need to be doing exercises for that hip, and a less inflammatory diet. ie. cut out sugar and carbs mostly. Which I should be doing anyways. I think it comes from the way I walk on that leg, because the knee isn’t quite right, and when I use the cane I actually put a lot of weight in that side.
