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Bacteria that can eat sewer waste and produce electricity. Bacteria that can create electrically conductive nanowires to transfer energy from one cell to another. Bacteria that breathe metal or bacterial strains that can live on electrons alone. These are just a … Continue reading →

Via another one of the Pic of the Day sites I visit regularly, this one is from NASA’s Earth Observatory Picture of the Day. Explanation by William L. Stefanov, NASA-JSC: Though these images may look like they come from a science … Continue reading →

Video Credit: SOHO Consortium, EIT, ESA, NASA Explanation: Ten Earths could easily fit in the “claw” of this seemingly solar monster. The monster, actually a huge eruptive prominence, is seen moving out from our Sun in this condensed half-hour time-lapse sequence.  This large prominence, though, is significant not only for … Continue reading →

CORRECTION: The pics were wrong, I have been placed with a family (Neyda y Enriqué). It is nearby but I replaced the photos with new ones showing the correct street below. It is next to the old German Quarter in … Continue reading →

On this day in 1957, machines at the Wham-O toy company rolled out the first batch of their aerodynamic plastic discs–now known to millions of fans all over the world as Frisbees. The story of the Frisbee began in Bridgeport, Conn., … Continue reading →

A few randomly snagged pieces from a very beautiful rabbit hole: http://collection.whitney.org/artists/by-letter/A

California’s Republican(sic) Senator feeds her husband the kind of info that sent Martha Stewart to the joint so he earns a billion and helps the defunding/privatizing of the USPS move forward. http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/dianne-feinsteins-husbands-real-estate-firm-poised-make-1-billion-selling-post?akid=12698.274885.Nq9fT5&rd=1&src=newsletter1030527&t=11

Now filling my apartment with a mouth-watering fragrance, an easy to make and delicious treat for a cold winter’s night. Most recipes I have found online use far too much sugar that masks the main ingredients’ flavors. This one started … Continue reading →

Or anyone else’s on ANY social media site for that matter. It’s just an ego stroke anyway but seeing the number of people from the far-flung reaches of this rocky orb that seem to be checking out my stuff is … Continue reading →