The tiny brown stink bug has been reported in 33 states so far this year. They get their name due to their smell of decaying garbage when they are squashed–and they lay 30 eggs a year! It seems to be spreading from its usual home along the mid-Atlantic coast to states throughout the US (due to climate change?) While they are not dangerous (just unpleasant), they DO bite, and they like to infest beds and sofas.
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In the future, can we get DNA tests as children to find out what types of diets to eat and what kinds of medicine to take? If only it was that easy. A new study suggests that, for most common diseases, genes alone only tell part of the story–and the environment tells the rest of it, because it interacts with DNA in ways that are difficult to predict. Geneticist Barak Cohen says, "Having a particular genetic variant may not have much of an effect but combined with a person’s environment, it may have a huge effect."
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When Whitley first learned about climate change from The Master of the Key, he followed the right path and wrote "The Coming Global Superstorm," which became the hit movie "The Day After Tomorrow." If YOU want to follow the right path, we have a great deal for you: For a limited time only, Whitley’s famous meditation book is now half price. This tarot card format for this book came to him as a sudden psychic download, while the incredibly effective meditation techniques are those he learned from his years in the Gurdjieff Work.read more
If you want to lose weight, maybe you should drink less beer. It turns out that beer may make a great new biofuel for cars (and this may be a better use for it!) So don’t drink and drive–drive on drink (and lose some of that beer gut). Biologists don’t even need beer to do it–they plan to use brewery WASTE.
Working with engineers at Anheuser-Busch, they took samples of bioreactor sludge from several breweries over the course of a year and analyzed the gene sequences of the microbes in it. One of the microbial populations in the sludge produces methane gas which Anheuser-Busch already uses to power its plants, saving the company millions of dollars every year.
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