Holy Shemoly! Los Angeles is going to allow treated sewage to be used as drinking water. Yes, the State Water Control Board has regulations that lets millions of gallons of “reclaimed” water to be drunk by LA and Orange County residents.
Continue reading Direct Potable Reuse
Home schooling has burgeoned over the past few years. (I recently wrote about this phenomenon.) It has been amplified primarily through the efforts of an advocate, Dr.Brian Ray (PhD in Science Education). He publishes studies routinely touting the benefits of the process, claiming that students outperform public schools by 15 to 25 (or 30) percentage points. (He does [or did] educate his eight kids at home.)
Continue reading Scientific Basis for Home Schooling? Um…No!
The FDA just made history. They approved the first CRISPR (Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat, a genetic manipulation system) technique to treat a human disease.
Continue reading A CRISPR Breakthrough!
How about this idea? A microbe (actually a bacteria) that can target and treat cancer. For a price of about $ 1 a dose.
Continue reading Killing Bacteria?
Consultants are normally chosen because they have specialized knowledge that can help their clients- with a current problem and/or with developing plans for growth.
Continue reading Know what you know
I’ll bet you hardly ever consider your fridge. That appliance is actually a pretty sophisticated heat pump apparatus. With the inclusion of a refrigerant (like Freon), this box (mostly a thin veneer covering loads and loads of insulation) manages to keep the contents around 3 to 5 C, thereby diminishing the ability of microbes to grow and spoil our food.
Continue reading Technological breakthrough
I am going to talk about two folks today that really deserve our thanks. Oh, sure, they won the Nobel Prize- but their path was pretty perturbed.
Continue reading A noble effort yields a Nobel
I don’t know about you, but my tv is routinely :infected with advertisements about drugs (Entyvio comes to mind) that treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Continue reading Light me up again?
I’ve spoken about bacteriophages before. These are viruses that attack bacteria and not animal cells. A team has found a way to modify the genome of bacteriophages (again, viruses that attack bacteria), which makes potentially dangerous microbes in food and water glow so they are easier to detect. (Recognize that bacteriophage, like viruses that attack human cells, inject their genome into the bacterial target. The cell then produces viral particles until it lacks energy reserves and dies.}
Continue reading LIght ’em up!
This post started out as a guest contribution from Lucas Weaver of the Yolopreneur. However, there were items that needed more direct information, so it is more of a collaboration between Mr. Weaver and Dr. Ackerman; but it was Lucas who first arrived at the subject matter.
Continue reading Gaining Financial Knowledge for Small Business Success