Category: bioengineering
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GreyDawn
The writing brain is back online, with a vengeance. Forty minutes, 1300+ words, and I have no freaking idea what this is, only that I had to write it. Also, if you’re curious, it’s in the same universe as Eternity Symbiote. Which I thought was dead, and gone, and had planned to pull that work…
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Mitey Bees
Honeybees, the most-loved insect, and a vital part of the pollination system that ensures we have fruit, nuts, and veggies in the stores to buy and eat, have a nemesis. In recent years you’ve likely seen concerns over Colony Collapse Disorder (also known as CCD) but what you probably haven’t heard about are the Destructors.…
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Livestock Resources for Further Research
Another guest post by my mother, Kathleen Sanderson, in follow-up to the post at Mad Genius Club about livestock in space. This is also useful information if you are planning on keeping small stock while stuck on our current mudball. There seems to be quite a bit of interest in the animals that colonists might…
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Whirled Peas and Tomatoes
Oh, boy… Wednesdays are the new Mondays for me. Or at any rate, they are going to be the busiest day of the week when it comes to school scheduling. I have Genetics, Drawing, and Organic Chemistry (lecture). So blogging on Wednesday is likely to slip in quality a bit. Not that that’s a high…
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Medicine and Healing in SFF
Hattip to Michael Kabongo for the topic suggestion. After three(ish) days sick now, this is a timely topic. One of my favorite SF series on this topic is James White’s Sector General books. White’s stories center on the classification of species of aliens, inter-species relationships, and the psychology of the doctors and nurses tending them.…
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Review: Bread has a Hero
Yes, bread has a hero. Reading this book, I was struck by a few things… ok, a whole bunch of things. Remember when I talked about a story having a hero to stand up and cheer for? And if you have been following along, the blog posts on Ebola, and Poverty, and how I said…
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The Bloody Death
Ebola is a frightening disease for many reasons. High fatality rate, high infectious rate, rapid travel through a community, strikes at those who are needed most in a health emergency… but perhaps the worst is the way you die, your organs a bloody soup. I’ve read a lot about Ebola, and it’s cousin the Marburg…
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Organic Design
I’m still uploading, slowly, years worth of photos to DeviantArt, you can browse my gallery here. As I’m doing it, I realize my first reader’s teasing is spot on. I really do stalk bugs for photos. Tons of bug pics in my archives, especially pollinators. So I was thinking. As I start to teach myself spaceship…
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Artwork and thoughts
I didn’t read anything this week, again. I had intended to, and I did do a review on Monday, since I read last week… what is my life coming to? I used to read several books a day. Then there was a book here and there, or a stolen hour in the bathtub with a…
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Review: A Few Good Men
The other day I announced in a group of friends that I wasn’t feeling up to snuff, I was going to catch up on reading, so I was taking A Few Good Men to bed with me. Hilarity ensued. Most of them have read this book, as the group in question is formed of fans…
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Free Story by Pam Uphoff!
It’s not mine, but I have talked a good bit about YA reads that are good, clean books. This fits the bill, and it has AI’s, sentient pets, a T-Rex, and lots of action. All that, and it’s free today, this week, so go scoop it up and enjoy, or give to your kids to…
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Viruses that go Bump in the Night
I was reminded of John Ringo’s essay on the zombie apocalypse during microbiology lab today. We watched a video on SARS, and one of the questions asked was “did we overreact to SARS?” The answer, of course, is no, and a little bit, yes. The possibility of a global pandemic (yes, I know that’s redundant)…