Art in science!

Biology is amazing.

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Enormous mass of magma moving under Africa

An enormous mass of magma is active under southern Africa, extending from the Atlantic Ocean to Madagascar and the Indian Ocean to the east. Researchers detected it by analyzing seismic data and mapped it using tomography.

Lockdown ‘had no effect’ on the pandemic in Germany, scientists say

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This is according to scientists at Munich University. The infection rate was already falling before the lockdown.

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One in 19.1 million!

A study by researchers at UCLA and Stanford reports that the chances of dying from COVID-19 for the average person between 50 to 64 years old are 1 in 19.1 million. You have a better chance of winning the lottery.

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Maybe the experts were onto something in the Seventies, declaring a new Ice Age.

This week certainly comports with it. Amazingly, brutally cold in two-thirds of the country.

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Gonna have to freshen up on my Czech. I love reading about Mendel.

The Case of the Missing Mendel Manuscript

Ever since learning about my own DNA, I have become fascinated with genetics, particularly the human kind. That fascination extends to Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk who lived in the 19th century. He discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments in his garden using plants such as peas.

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FOOTNOTE
I first posted this on my experimental blog at webs.com. Why? Because the wifi at the local Whole Foods would not let me publish it at WordPress for some reason.