For over 40 years Scottish man Andrew Whitley has been on a mission to change the way our bread is made.
He says the spongy white stuff that dominates supermarket bread aisles,
originally developed to fuel hungry mill and factory workers through the Industrial Revolution,
just isn't nutritious or healthy.
So to fight back he co-founded Bread Matters,
and more recently Scotland The Bread, a collaborative project to grow better grain and bake better bread with…
During an initial field test in the Spanish desert, members of ESA's #ExoMars mission simulated operating the mission’s rover. Two scientists from #mpsgoettingen took part. Read more here:
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"At a moment when the living world has been deeply imperiled, I wanted to make my biggest, boldest attempt at showing why it matters—why it all matters, and especially the parts that lie outside our normal experiences."
--Ed Yong, email talking about an upcoming book about ALL LIFE: "Life Beyond Measure"
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Glaciologist Matthias Huss shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer.
"No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
#glaciers #globalwarming
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The shock gloves, he went on to explain, allow their wearer to inflict pain without leaving the sort of marks that could look bad to witnesses or leave an officer vulnerable to lawsuits.
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The cost of the war doesn’t end when the last shot is fired.
Veterans will draw care and disability payments for decades.
Historically, these costs don’t peak until 30 to 40 years after a war ends.
Meanwhile, US weapons stockpiles will need replenishing
and American facilities in the Middle East
—damages to which are reportedly more extensive than the Trump administration has acknowledged
—will need to be rebuilt.
Taken all together, $37.5 billion …
US inflation jumped in September,
and by more than expected,
as the soaring cost of motor fuel pushed up the cost of living.
The US Consumer Prices Index roses by 3.7% in the year to September,
up from 3.4% in August.
Economists had forecast a smaller rise, to 3.6%.
Prices rose by 0.6% in Spetember alone.
Gasoline prices jumped by 9.1% in September,
and were 34% higher tha a year ago,
as motorists across America felt the impact of Donald T…