Open Thread - Homesteading in France
Submitted by Dawn's Meta on Thu, 10/21/2021 - 8:30am
Green House and Garden Beds
Spices as Medicines
Submitted by wendy davis on Wed, 10/20/2021 - 4:40pm(a reprise from 2012, updated in 2016, having added other herbs, foods, and supplements.)
I read news this morning about a new strain of Superbug that is plaguing India; the piece explains the NDM-1 gene and plasmids that allow easy bacterial mutations; more than I can fully grasp in a reading. (The piece neglects to mention how much the same causes occur in the US, of course.) But antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains other than MRSA seem to be brewing and causing increasing alarm among health care organizations. Global pandemics are apparently not unlikely, and finding reliable cures in what they’re calling ‘a post-antibiotic era’ frightening at the very least. Chief causes seem to be over-prescribed antibiotics, patients historically not having completed the prescribed round of antibiotics, and antibiotics in animal feed.
The Evening Blues - 10-20-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 10/20/2021 - 3:10pm
Open Thread WE 20 OCT 21 ~ Full Moon
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 10/20/2021 - 5:00am
Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.
-- Don McLean
The Evening Blues - 10-19-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 10/19/2021 - 12:35pm
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Tue, 10/19/2021 - 5:31am
Something/Someone Old 
My Something Old this week is the oldest printed recipe for New England clam chowder.
The Evening Blues - 10-18-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 10/18/2021 - 2:55pm
10/18 is Multicultural Diversity Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 10/18/2021 - 5:00am
Today is day 291 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 72, 3187 YOLD
And let us not forget 13.0.8.17.3 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)
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Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 72, 3187 YOLD
And let us not forget 13.0.8.17.3 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)
*****
Lion Dance
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IATSE STRIKE SETTLED! Calling on fire with fire
Submitted by NYCVG on Sun, 10/17/2021 - 9:10amThe NY Times has the strike settlement in its print edition but not up online yet.
I want to hear what fire with fire thinks before I start clapping.
The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 10/17/2021 - 6:23am
A Bull in a China Shop:
a person who breaks things or who often makes mistakes or causes damage in situations that require careful thinking or behavior
Creating a China Conflict
Is it WMD deja vu all over again? There is a steady drum beat trying to create a major conflict with China. Some how it is China which is the aggressor, but it is western powers sailing war fleets up and down China's coast. Today we'll hear a number of voices describe this foolish rush to war instead of working cooperatively toward the survival of the species.
