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“We got interested in this because other researchers, for years, have been describing this type of ecological memory
of soil microbes having some way to remember from their ancestors' past,”
“We thought this was really fascinating. It has a lot of important implications for how we can grow plants, including things like corn and wheat.
Precipitation itself has a big influence on how plants grow,
but also the memory of the microbes living in those soils could also p…

New study explores ‘legacy effects’ of soil microbes on plants across Kansas
Click for more on research in Nature Microbiology

I just bought Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on Good Old Games for less than 3 bucks. I have never played it. It's 33 years old by now...
#scummvm #gog #LucasArts

4 mois de #Python de manière intensive: mon retour sur le langage
https://mcorbin.fr/posts/2025-12-26-python-langage/

Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge (ABC7)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-engaged-widespread-misrepresentations-justify-use-force-judge-ellis-says/18224047/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p6#a251130p6

For my linked dipole, I came up with using high-shrink (I use 4:1) marine (lined with heat-activated glue) heat shrink tubing and dacron line for making neat links that wind nicely and avoid putting stress on the wire.
Today I realized that I could use the same technique to put loops at the ends of my end-fed antenna and …

🌠 Meteorite crater hosts methane-making microbes—a clue to life on Mars?
#meteor

Meteorite crater hosts methane-making microbes—a clue to life on Mars?
Scientists have discovered living microbes producing methane in the fractured rocks deep inside Sweden's Siljan impact crater, offering insights into Earth's earliest life and the search for life beyond our planet.

"They know how to eat methane,”
said Josh Silverman, the company’s CEO and founder.
“We’re not creating something new.
We’re not teaching them to do something they don’t normally do.
They’ve evolved for a million years to do this.”
https://www.w…

These pink microbes could help reduce planet-warming methane emissions
Microscopic organisms are being deployed to capture methane from sources such as farms and landfills, with the potential for reuse as fertilizer and fish food.

WTF this straight to VHS B-movie I've just found on Amazon starts out pretty awesome:
1. narrator introduces a backstory that is blatantly ripped from Mad Max (1979)
2. this shot
#MovieNight

There are plenty of #HamRadio CW operators who, as a politeness, greet you by name when you have a QSO, even a POTA QSO. But they also see "Michael" and send "Mike" because "Michael" takes a long time to send.
I get it, "Mike" is shorter, but... I just don't go by "Mike"
I do go by "MKJ" — I used that for decades on IRC, and now at work there are so many Mi…

I now need to find all those online profiles where I have described myself as an "inactive" pilot and remove the word "inactive" from them. After a hiatus of a dozen years, I just passed both the ground and air work portions of a flight review, and once again have a current "license to learn."
#aviation