It’s Alive! & Airborne In the midst of airborne sea salt and dust, researchers from Georgia Tech unexpectedly found thousands of living fungal cells and bacteria, including E. coli and Streptococcus. Courtesy Georgia Tech; Photo by Gary Meek
Earth’s upper atmosphere—below freezing, nearly without oxygen, flooded by UV radiation—is no place to live. But last winter, scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered that billions of bacteria actually thrive up there. Expecting only a smattering of microorganisms, the researchers flew six miles above Earth’s surface in a NASA jet plane. There, they pumped outside air through a filter to collect particles. Back on the ground, they tallied the organisms, and the count was staggering: 20 percent of what they had assumed to be just dust or other particles was alive. Earth, it seems, is surrounded by a bubble of bacteria.
Prof. Suzanne Simard (UBC) talks about Mother trees. The largest tree in an area is the mother tree who communicates with all the other trees in the area (even ones of different species) via it's root systems and the micro-organisms (fungus, bacteria etc) that helps to provide nutrients for the ...
Cistus Incanus (Rock Rose) Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt MD, PhD and the Klinghardt Academy hosted "A Deep Look Beyond Lyme" in May 2011. Although the conference was focused on Lyme Disease, many of the topics covered, such as heavy metal detox, biofilms, parasites and more are important for people wi ...
Source: e! Science News A parasite that fights the zombie-ant fungus has yielded some of its secrets to an international research team led by Penn State's David Hughes. The research reveals, for the first time, how an entire ant colony is able to survive infestations by the zombie-ant fungus, ...
Seven years ago we lived in a hellishly mouldy apartment in Wellington New Zealand and got infested with mould. Since then I always have an eye out for any articles about candida, moulds and probiotics. This is actually one of the most well written, concise, yet descriptive and in depth pieces a ...
Do we really want people controlled by parasitic micro-organisms controlling our world? Please be sure to watch the video at the end of this post before answering this question. More and more information is coming out about probiotics lately and the intimate symbiotic relationship formed between ...
With the summer in full swing and my various gardens demanding attention, I'm having trouble keeping on top of blogging (!) We also recently had a huge family reunion for my Aunt and Uncle's 50th wedding anniversary. I met lots of family I didn't know and reintroduced myself to cousins last seen 20+ ...
Chelsea Publishing Spring is morel season, and Greg A. Marley in his book Chanterelle Dreams, Amanta Nightmares: The Love, Lore, and Mystique of Mushrooms, gets us primed for mushroom hunting with Clyde Christensen's Foolproof Four: mushrooms that are easy to identify and have no look alikes. ...
This article is written by Jeffrey Smith for The Institute of Responsible Technology. They are encouraging everyone to share and repost this information as widely as possible. More information on the history and goals of Monsanto are posted in this article: Monsanto: The World’s Poster Child for C ...
Please note that this article was written in early 2011. Some of the details have changed. My health is much improved although I still have to be very careful to get massive amounts of probiotics and plenty of sleep. Today, Health Canada is more terrified than ever of BC's raw milk. British Col ...
