Showing posts with label bacteria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bacteria. Show all posts
Monday, June 1, 2026
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Saturday, June 14, 2025
Cali creature holds evolutionary secrets
Creature found in California's lake holds evolutionary secrets from 650 million years ago
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| Behold, I am that I am who created this speck! |
Recently, scientists from the University of California at Berkeley have discovered a microscopic [extremophile] creature living in this extreme environment that could offer clues to the origins of complex life.
This creature, a single-celled choanoflagellate species, offers unprecedented insights into the evolutionary transition from single-celled organisms to multicellular life.
The species’ unique microbiome and symbiotic relationship with bacteria provide clues into how early life forms adapted to extreme environments and formed partnerships that contributed to the development of animal life.
This groundbreaking research not only enriches our understanding of evolution but also underscores the ecological significance of Mono Lake’s extraordinary ecosystem. More
- Discovery WildScience, June 14, 2025; Adolescents, "Amoeba" live footage dubbed original recording; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Some germs eat plastic: new microbe
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| Can the Elementals help clean up? |
- CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Monday, August 19, 2024
Microbes vs. Phages: America’s Gut Issues
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| Amber Dance and knowablemagazine.org introduce us to the phageome |
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| America is too fat, like this obese specimen. |
Most have probably heard of the microbiome — the collection of probiotics, hordes of harmful bacteria, and other tiny life forms that live in our guts. Well, it turns out those bacteria have viruses that exist in and around them — with important consequences for both them and us.
Hey, microbiome, meet the phagosome.
There are billions, perhaps even trillions, of these viruses, known as bacteriophages (Greek for “bacteria eaters” in Greek) or just “phages” to their friends, inside the human digestive system.
Phageome science has skyrocketed recently, says Breck Duerkop, a bacteriologist at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, and researchers are struggling to come to grips with their enormous diversity.
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| Don't try to shame my obesity. I'm just big bellied. |
“There will turn out to be good and bad phages,” says Paul Bollyky, an infectious disease physician and researcher at Stanford Medicine. But for now, it’s still unclear how many phages occupy the gut — perhaps one for each bacterial cell or even fewer.
There are also bacteria that contain phage genes but aren’t actively producing viruses; the bacteria are just living their lives with phage DNA tagging along in their genomes.
And there are lots of phages still unidentified; scientists call them the “dark matter” of the phagosome.
A big part of current phage research is to identify these viruses and their host bacteria. The Gut Phage Database contains more than 140,000 phages, but that’s surely an underestimate.
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| How do these gut bugs impact behavior? |
That’s where researchers found the most common gut phage group, called crAssphage. (Get your mind out of the gutter — they were named for the “cross-assembly” technique that plucked their genes out of the genetic mishmash.)
In a recent study, Hill and colleagues detailed a light-bulb shape for crAssphages, with a 20-sided body and a stalk to inject DNA into host bacteria.
- How can we get all the nutrients we need for health if farm soil is depleted? Supplements from criticalhealthnews.com
- Related video: Researchers discover tough bacteria that can survive in microwaves
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| How to counter an infestation of invaders? |
Other common groups that also infect Bacteroides include the Gubaphage (gut Bacteroides phage) and the LoVEphage (lots of viral genetic elements).
Phageomes vary widely from person to person.
They also change depending on age, sex, diet and lifestyle, as Hill and colleagues described in the 2023 Annual Review of Microbiology.
Though phages infect bacteria and sometimes kill them, the relationship is more complicated than that. “We used to think that phage and bacteria are fighting,” says Hill, “but now we know that they’re actually dancing; they’re partners.”
- Amber Dance and Knowable Magazine, Inverse via MSN, 8/18/24, The microbiome’s forgotten cousin could be key to solving America’s gut issues (MSN); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
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Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Science: Life on Mars, ocean found, gases
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| Unveiling Mars: The Mysterious Ruins and the Quest for Ancient Life (MSN) |
- Prepared for soft disclosure?
- In today's unveiling, large amounts of the life-suggestive gases ammonia and phosphine have been found on Mars [Upper limits for phosphine (PH3) in the atmosphere of Mars | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) (aanda.org)] It's hard to explain their presence in the atmosphere, which increase during the warmer times, without pointing at the forms of life that put out these gases.
- (Life on Venus, too? Phosphine is produced by bacteria in the swamps of Earth and it's also floating around the atmosphere of Venus, reddit.com).
Enormous hidden ocean discovered under Mars, and it could contain life: Geophysicists have discovered a gigantic hidden ocean beneath Mars' surface, and they say it could harbor life. The massive underground reservoir, discovered using seismic data taken by NASA's InSight Lander, contains enough liquid to cover the entire planet with a mile of water. However, it is far too deep to access by any known means. Trapped inside a layer of fractured rock 7 to 13 miles (11.5 to 20 kms) beneath the Red Planet's outer crust, reaching the water would require a drilling operation that has yet-to-be achieved on Earth. More
Full of ocean water just like Earth, huh? - Venus may have phosphine, but Mars has lakes of LIQUID WATER | astrobites
- Over 350 asteroids have hidden moons, Gaia space telescope finds (Live Science)
- 'Severe' G4 geomagnetic storm strikes Earth, making widespread auroras likely
- All life on Earth comes from one single ancestor. and it's so much older than we thought. (MSN)
(Popular Mechanics) In its ancient past, Mars likely contained many of the necessary ingredients for microbial life to flourish on its surface.
Now, a new discovery by NASA’s Perseverance rover shows a trifecta of compelling evidence — including the presence of water, organic compounds, and a chemical energy source — all on one rock located in the Jezero Crater.
- David Bowie on Buddhism, ETs, art: Life on Mars
- One would think the word "organic" were life enough, but extraplanetary fossils found decades ago were not enough to overcome doubters in science. If Martian scientists bring us rock samples showing clear signs of earlier life on Mars, we still won't believe them. Life is earth-only. Just ask God (or read His bestseller). We are alone with Lord. Just Lord and us. That's it. No aliens!
- New life forms in earth? The Movile Cave was sealed off for more than 5 million years and the creatures inside of it create sunless FOOD in a completely unique way
- Little green men from Earth: Smallest human species ‘Hobbits’ were even smaller than thought, study finds
- Let's create a new species and call it Homo chimpus: What happens when scientists put a human intelligence gene into a monkey?
- Mysterious Denisovan human species lived undisturbed in the mountains for 160,000 years [and gave us Tibetans]
- Aliens probably exist – but there’s a terrifying reason why we’ve never met them (What if they're smarter than we are?!)
Although this is the best clue yet that microbial life existed on Mars, there are still other explanations that could explain account for this geologic display without the existence of microbes.
“Is there life on Mars” is a question that has vexed astrobiologists and [Buddhist rockstar] David Bowie [who almost became a Vajrayana Buddhist monk rather than a human-alien hybrid pop singer] alike.
Playing with reptilian monsters on earth
While the latter imagined some macabre collection of arachnids on the Red Planet [Spiders on Mars], NASA scientists are fixated on finding evidence that microbial life once flourished on the fourth rock from the Sun.
They are so fixated, in fact, that the space agency has spent more than $5 billion getting two immensely complicated robotic rovers — Curiosity and Perseverance — onto the Martian surface with this specific microbial mission in mind.
Now, one of those rovers might have discovered one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for Martian microbial life.
- Earth has a third form of life — and it could change how we generate power
- ‘Fool's gold' may be valuable after all (msn.com)
- Mountaineers discover mysterious ancient objects in the Alps
- Secret experiments by a 16th-century alchemist involved an element that nobody knew about at the time
Movile Cave, Romania: Life erupts inside cave sealed for 5 million years
Located on an arrowhead-shaped, three-foot-long rock nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” in the Jezero Crater (the 28-mile-wide crater that Perseverance has called home for the past three years), this “piece of evidence” is actually a trifecta of data points that suggest the presence of past microbial life.
The rock in question features two vertical veins of calcium sulfate that likely formed from past water, and these stripes both flank a red band of rock filled with “leopard spots.”
NASA has discovered evidence of past water on Mars before, but it’s this narrow band of rock that brings new meaning to this discovery.
Using its SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) and PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-Ray Lithochemistry) instruments, Perseverance determined the existence of organic compounds within the rock.
What's in Area 51, Groom Lake, Dreamland?
Oh, and those “leopard spots?” Those likely indicate chemical reactions that could’ve supplied energy to ancient microbial Martians.
While each of these discoveries — the presence of water, organic compounds, and chemical reactions — would be notable even if discovered separately, NASA has never seen all three in one location, meaning the geological chemistry of Cheyava Falls is possibly our best clue yet that Mars once hosted life. More:
- NASA made a world-shaking discovery: compelling evidence of past life on Mars
- Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, The Angry Astronaut, 8/5/24; Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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Monday, July 1, 2024
Jesus used drugs: Bible scholar Dr. Hillman
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| You don't understand. This is how it was, leading a Mystery cult, magic, trying to see GOD. |
Ancient language expert: Jesus Christ used children as drugs | Dr. David Ammon Hillman
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Dr. David C. Ammon Hillman, Ph.D. earned his master's degree in bacteriology from the University of Arizona and a master's and doctoral degree in classics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he specialized in Ancient Greek and Roman medicine and pharmacology (Greek pharmakos = sorcery, potion brewing, dosing).
His first book, The Chemical Muse, was published with St. Martin’s Press immediately after his dissertation committee forced him to delete all references to recreational drugs from his thesis. Dr. Hillman was recently investigated by the Vatican for demon possession and portal opening while teaching as a professor of Classical Languages.
OUTLINE
00:00 - Religious history
British John Marco Allegro - 11:24 - Tal Megiddo excavation [site of Armageddon]
- 16:39 - Original meaning of "Christ" [anointed with drug]
- 17:51 - Neuropeptides
- 23:25 - Ancient pharmacology; John Scarborough
- 28:23 - Galen (Marcus Aurelius doctor)
- 33:44 - Drugs in ancient Rome
- 38:02 - The Chemical Muse
- 47:11 - Greek Septuagint vs. the Dead Sea Scrolls
- 55:57 - Greek drug cults
- 01:03:08 - Solon and the creation of democracy
- 01:10:21 - The ancient Bible
- 01:16:40 - Greek came before Hebrew Old Testament
- 01:19:08 - Interpreting ancient texts
- 01:24:15 - John Marco Allegro (The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross)
- 01:28:39 - Why ancient Greek is superior language
- 01:33:59 - The "Purple" (drug reference)
- 01:38:23 - Christian cults and revisionism
- 01:46:49 - The Christ
- 01:55:52 - Zeus [Je'Zeus, Son of Zeus]
- 02:05:59 - The Garden of Gethsemane
- 02:16:46 - The "Burning Purple"
- 02:27:52 - Death of Jesus
- 02:41:31 - Using the human bodies to produce drugs
- 02:43:58 - The men crucified next to Jesus
- 02:52:08 - Demon possession and opening portals
- 03:02:03 - Alexander the False Prophet
- 03:08:46 - Lucifer: The Dawn Bringer
- 03:17:38 - Modern enlightenment
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| Original Sin: Ritual Child Rape |
- Vatican and Catholic Church biblical scholar John M. Allegro saw the connection between drugs and Christianity long ago, but the Vatican banned his scholarship until now: The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East
- VIDEO: Did the Ancient Greeks climb Mount Olympus to see the Gods? (short animated documentary)
- VIDEO: Enormous Roman mosaic in Turkey (Near East, Anatolia)
EPISODE LINKS
- Dr. Hillman's YouTube Channel: @ladybabylon666
- BOOK: The Chemical Muse
- Dr. Hillman's Ancient Greek courses: wyzant.com/match/tutor/88...
- Hermaphrodites, Gynomorphs and Jesus: She-Male Gods and the Roots of Christianity (Dr. Hillman)
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023
NASA found Martian life then killed it
Anugraha Sundaravelu, Metro.co.uk, 8/29/23; Pat Macpherson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that an experiment carried out in the 1970s that added water to Martian soil drowned any life that could have existed (Unsplash/Metro). |
NASA found alien life on Mars then accidentally killed it, scientist claims
A scientist claims that we might have already found alien life on Mars 50 years ago but accidentally killed it.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch from the Technical University Berlin believes that an experiment carried out in the 1970s that added water to Martian soil could have drowned any life that could have existed.
The test, known as the Viking Labeled Release experiment, was one of three biology experiments conducted by the Viking landers on Mars in 1976.
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| It was an accident. It was putricide dead. |
The theory was that if life were on Mars, microorganisms would consume the nutrients and release the radioactive carbon as a gas.
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Saturday, August 12, 2023
Dentist says better than floss: Xylitol
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Truth about flossing we aren't being told
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- 20:38 3rd Research Study
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Monday, May 29, 2023
Black Catholic nun in Missouri is saint (video)
The body of an incorrupt Catholic nun has been found in Missouri after being deceased for four years
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| Whoopi, be better! Be like Sister Wilhelmina! |
[And the Catholic Church came in to conquer an area, as they are wont to do even today, which they do with swords and flowers, often pick a popular figure to say, "Look, he was saintly." They thus accrue for themselves all popular figures to build their image as the great institution that will convert or kill you, unless you come willingly because, look, this person is actually a Catholic saint.]
[Pope John Paul II didn't like to go to a new country unless he was canonizing a local figure because the local population loves that. Everyone's in need of a patron saint, and no is better than a local.]
- How can Buddhists explain this? The same way Jains, Hindus, and yogis would: samadhi (stillness, coherence, concentration) that leads to temporary moral purification. Alone it is not enough for salvation, liberation, enlightenment. Systematic practice for insight-wisdom is needed for that. But samadhi alone is enough to make one a "saint" in other religions.

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Sunday, September 4, 2022
Chris Hedges On Contact: Slaughterhouse
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| Don't eat us. If you do, they'll KILL us to sell our bodies as bloody flesh. Thank you, Humans. |
Chris Hedges has a weekly radio interview show called On Contact. It features dissident voices missing from the mainstream media as well as the “black sheep” of the establishment.
Jimmy Dore interviews cancelled/censored/disappeared Chris Hedges
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Hedges "disappeared" from YouTube
with all RT content as reported by Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
(Gail A. Eisnitz)
Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the U.S. meatpacking industry over the last 25 years -- particularly
- industry consolidation,
- increased line speeds, and
- deregulation
In this new paperback edition, author Gail A. Eisnitz brings the story up-to-date since the book's original publication. She describes the ongoing efforts by the Humane Farming Association to improve conditions in the meatpacking industry, media exposes that have prompted reforms resulting in multimillion dollar appropriations by Congress to try to enforce federal inspection laws, and a favorable decision by the Supreme Court to block construction of what was slated to be one of the largest hog factory farms in the country.
Nonetheless, Eisnitz makes it clear that abuses continue and much work still needs to be done. Slaughterhouse: The Shocking
ABOUT: Christopher Hedges is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, and visiting Princeton University lecturer. His books include his most recent America: The Farewell Tour (2018), Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015), Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009); Death of the Liberal Class (2010); Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, at one time a New York Times best-seller.
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