It is that time again….another Saturday and another news dump…..
Personal news….nothing I would like to talk about right now….maybe later.
Locally–we dodged yet another bullet here on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi with a hurricane….Helene hit East of us and has brought very little effect to my region…thank you.
Now moving on to the real important stuff…
A whistleblower has told the world that a big dramatic story will break soon….
A UFO whistleblower, Charles McNeal, has made some startling claims about a significant event in human history set to occur in the coming months. He alleges that he was part of a top-secret US Air Force intelligence unit responsible for upholding a 70-year truce between the American government and an alien civilization.
According to McNeal, who offers no proof of his credentials on his YouTube channel, this truce is due to expire at the end of September 2024. He suggests that a series of planned events will follow, including the partial or total destruction of Israel, a brief global conflict, and a staged alien invasion using reverse-engineered UFO technology.
He also suggests that a gradual release of information through news outlets and fictional portrayals of extraterrestrial contact in films and TV has been part of a campaign to ready the world population for the shock of encountering an alien species. “This is known as the Public Acclimation Program,” he oddly states.
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/major-ufo-announcement-whistleblower-aliens-33742511
Seriously? Isn’t there at least one of these ‘stories’ monthly or so?
Romania has a new way of carbon capture…..
The European Bison, wiped out from Romania over 200 years ago, has been brought back thanks to efforts by Rewilding Europe and WWF Romania. Since their reintroduction in 2014, the population has grown to 170 individuals. Grazing over a 48 square kilometer area, these bison are not just surviving but thriving, transforming the landscape and its ecological dynamics.
New research from Yale University indicates that these bison significantly enhance the ecosystem’s ability to capture carbon. Evidently by grazing, they promote plant growth, recycle nutrients, and compact the soil, which helps prevent carbon release. This process results in the capture of an additional 54,000 tonnes of carbon each year, roughly equivalent to the emissions from 43,000 US petrol cars.
https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/how-reintroducing-bison-in-romania-is-capturing-co2-2-223864/
It is Autumn and those pesky leaves will start to fall and the pain in the butt will begin….
Nature experts have a message for anyone with a lawn heading into autumn: Step away from the rake.
As the weather turns cooler, trees change, leaves begin to fall, and homeowners embark on one of the most back-breaking chores of the year. But if the thought of spending hours combing your property has you dreading the return of fall, there’s good news: You don’t have to.
Scientists are debunking the myth that a layer of leaves is bad for our lawns. Rather, the practice of ignoring plant debris—which they’ve labeled “leaving leaves”—offers numerous benefits. Instead of piling and burning or bagging a tree’s leftovers when the seasons change, experts suggest letting your soil reap the rewards of the decomposing organic matter.
“A forest has the richest soil there is, and that happens because leaves are falling off the trees and decomposing right there and organic materials are going back into the soil,” Susan Barton, a professor of landscape horticulture at the University of Delaware told The New York Times. “We should be doing that in all of our landscapes, but we’re not.”
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/why-you-should-not-rake-fall-leaves
I do not rake….I mulch up the leaves and leave them where they fall.
Food stuff….I love asparagus either roasted or grilled but why does it make my pee smell….well funky?
Asparagus has a long and storied history: It was mentioned in the myths and the scholarly writings of ancient Greece, and its cultivation was the subject of a detailed lesson in Cato the Elder’s treatise, On Agriculture. But it wasn’t until the turn of the 18th century that discussion of the link between asparagus and odorous urine emerged.
In 1731, John Arbuthnot, physician to Queen Anne, noted that asparagus “affects the urine with a foetid smell … and therefore have been suspected by some physicians as not friendly to the kidneys.” Benjamin Franklin also noticed that eating asparagus “shall give our urine a disagreeable odor.”
Since then, there has been debate over what is responsible for the stinky pee phenomenon. Polish chemist and doctor Marceli Nencki identified a compound called methanethiol as the cause in 1891, after a study that involved four men eating about three and a half pounds of asparagus apiece. In 1975, Robert H. White, a chemist at the University of California at San Diego, used gas chromatography to pin down several compounds known as S-methyl thioesters as the culprits. Other researchers have blamed various sulfur-containing metabolites.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/24731/why-does-asparagus-make-your-pee-smell-funny
Just a short FYI for this Saturday.
More food stuff….
Thousands of chemicals used in food packaging and food production are leaching into food itself.
“It’s [from] your soda can, your plastic cooking utensils, your nonstick frying pan, the cardboard box that your fries come in,” says Jane Muncke, a toxicologist based in Zurich. “It’s retail food packaging, but also the processing equipment, and your [kitchenware] and tableware at home.”
More than 3,600 chemicals found in food packaging are also found in human bodies, according to a paper published Tuesday in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. The research was led by Muncke and her colleagues at the Food Packaging Forum Foundation, a nonprofit research group focused on hazardous chemicals in food packaging.
The paper synthesizes data from other published sources that document the presence of certain chemicals in humans from samples of blood, urine and breast milk. Of the 3,600 chemicals found in both food packaging and in humans, the researchers say about 80 are known to have “hazard properties of high concern” to human health.
As they say “we are what we eat”….scary huh?
This does it for me…..I have much to consider so this Saturday is a bit short….sorry about that.
Enjoy your weekend and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….
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