From Science Daily:

Scientists around the world have been working in earnest to improve understanding of an increasingly virulent superbug, Clostridium difficile. The highly contagious hospital-acquired pathogen, designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of the five most urgent threats to the U.S. healthcare system, causes more than 500,000 infections and 29,000 deaths each year at a total societal cost exceeding $5 billion.

This under reported urgency is likely to become more frequent.

Governments will increasingly try to keep a lid on all "panic inducing" news. This is backward thinking when what is necessarily is for everyone to learn just what sorts of risks are mounting and the need not to panic, or deny, but to recruit effort in the right direction. Of course the politicization of everything makes this totally unlikely.

~ral

Hi all,

Here's some news from the world of science. Yes, scientists still exist in spite of Trumpian denial.

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html

Physicists Detect Elusive 'Ghost Particles' in The LHC For The Very First Time
https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-neutrinos-may-have-been-detected-at-the-large-hadron-collider?fbclid=IwAR2lKWu6ZjxkUhpmBnBj9fiwl3hw3-SskX7fTEEakDrlCpWxtObJEtDN13E

In the quantum realm, not even time flows as you might expect
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211126130851.htm

ral

There is a lively discussion gong on about this finding at fexandcoo.website

Hermit of Mysteries

I've just returned from a dream meeting
I met a man known as the Hermit of Mysteries
He talked about the future, his and mine
We were linked, he said, had been for a long time
For a hermit he seemed unusually talkative
I asked him why, he said he'd received news
Of what is coming and he could not be silent
Tell me, then, what is this news of the future
The future everyone knows is not the future
You will hear the future from no one out there
The news is that the future is in your dreams

Important:

https://time.com/4970767/rem-sleep-dreams-health/?fbclid=IwAR0ZanHvzgt2aq3fOtUrdgymz6c8Zn9EDn5oBr3LhXmzbexa9xz45SpE6pU

Things Seen in a Dream Scene

Clustered they were—here and there
Yes, remnants of humans remained
Living on mountains of human remains
No one knows what lies beneath
The alluvial deserting and swamping
The constant rain washes everything
Thirst is quenched but hunger is not
So very hot the wet rises steaming
But the birds do not notice, they are flying
While all the animals follow them northward
Humans not following, they’ve forgotten how
No children are seen, no babies' cries are heard
There is talk of what might have been, what could be
Forgotten now that humans were gatherers and hunters
Not remembering humans are animals, are mammals
Not remembering anything useful now, not even dreams

Hi all,

If you have not yet started to follow developments at the Fex & Coo website,

now is the time. Not only are there important blog posts and commentaries,

but the first installment of The Deathling Crown Lottery has just been posted.

This is the second novel written by Paco and Russ in their round-robin fashion.

Please visit and register at fexandcoo.website

Enjoy!

Russ

As you know, Fex & Coo (fexandcoo.website) began with my mulling on Goethe's admonition

to look at what one sees, and to find the story there. Looking resulted in a flow of story.  This

post illustrates another example conveyed in a TED talk by Wendy MacNaughton where one

draws what one sees but without seeing what one is drawing. In this case, one may be seeing

a face, but the drawing becomes another way of "looking" at what one sees. This is a very useful

example, and I suggest you try it.

Here is the link:

In a report of recent research, Van Savage and Geoffrey West

explored the long unresolved questions of why do we need sleep.

a new mathematical theory supported by the evidence unlocks

at least some of the mysteries of why we need to sleep.

Here is the link:

https://aeon.co/essays/a-quantitative-theory-unlocks-the-mysteries-of-why-we-sleep?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=dc11f94c0f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_09_13_06_44&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-dc11f94c0f-70343981