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GUT 4.0 WINS BOOK AWARD "Over the Line"   "Well, it's kind of newsworthy." "You have a strange mind, Duff." "I hear the biome has a lot of control over your sex drive." "Gross." "Well, it's a big medical discovery, all that." "I'm going to talk to mine like you talk to a baby in your belly." (Some comments from early readers who could actually think of something to say.) It's in the bookstores ( Amazon , that is)!  It's published, available, for sale. At long, darn last. GO STRAIGHT TO AMAZON HERE Get it?  Science Fiction has no fear. It treads on subjects you might think odd to be trod. But I am just super impressed with the tidal wave of discoveries about MICROBIOMES. Everybody and pretty much every living thing has a microbiome. They are vital to healthy life... heck, to life itself! A lot of people I talk to completely underestimate the human microbiome. There's a c

There's This - and So Much More The Chinese version of "winning"  (No sign they're 'Sick and Tired' of it.) China successfully tests first hypersonic aircraft that can carry atomic warheads You should see what's hiding under that fairing.Speedy Gonzales himself! China is doing all sorts of amazing stuff, building entirely new cities  around  science themes, recruiting brilliant scientists from all over the world, buying vast agricultural rights in Africa, building the Asia-spanning "Silk Road" highway and rail   corridor.  So OK... good on them, working to be better all the time. But the "unstoppable missile" gives one pause. Say in a shouting match, threats-flying kind of an international incident, knowing your anti-missile system was bound to miss a bunch of these, I for one would be somewhat intimidated. When WE have proven hypersonic missiles (any year now), we can get back to the comfort of MUTUALLY a

Big Bucks for Big Promises In Big Bucks talk (financial jargon)... There's usually a cool babe on my back . What’s bigger than a unicorn? Samumed stuns yet again as anti-aging pipeline draws $438M at $12B valuation Samumed is a "regenerative medicine" operation in San Diego, working on drugs to keep us young and active (and cute). Their most advanced (through the approval pipeline) drug is for osteoarthritis - mainly in the knees.  They have NO PRODUCTS ON THE MARKET yet.  Yet they just raised a half billion bucks. (The "cute" part is their second most advanced drug which cures baldness.) Their focus is on us the aging (everybody), with  human clinical trials of experimental drugs to treat cancer, osteoarthritis, degenerative disc disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and several other diseases. Their one and only venture capitalist backer is  Singapore-based Vickers Venture Partners. Chinese! Surprise, surprise. Those Chinese are o

The Russians Gotta Love This  The press is all over this, but maybe you haven't  gotten into it, because stuff like this makes you crazy. If you haven't experienced crazy lately, you should read up on this. [Click on some of the better pieces:  Vox ,   Washington Post ,   NPR ,   Media Matters ] Just "Q" QAnon Not since the Jonestown 900 has there been a more credulous, hypnotized crowd of human beans than the QAnon crowd. See how stupid this conspiracy theory is, and stroke you chin and say "I would never fall for something so outrageously stoopid."  DON'T BE SO SURE. "People Prefer Lies" might not be true, but it aint' no lie.  If the lie is something you want to be true , especially. And conspiracy theories tap into something evolution wrote into our gene code. Now, THROW IN THE RUSSIANS !! BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, the artillery of Big Lie Repitition lands on your brain terrain, and the switch might get fl

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I Just Love Tom Tomorrow He's kind of a "buckshot political cartoonist"... mows stuff down Here's his whole   un-subtle take on Democrat/Republican thinking. [A sample] I'm the "Goofball" Dem                               I'm the "Galahad" Repub His most telling panel in this strip is the final one, where "Galahad" responds generally to the irrefutable arguments put forth by Goofball: ... Sounds like a Russian troll/bot on Breitbart.

Halooo, Ro ma nia ! For reasons totally mysterious to me, several page views are frequently recorded from Romania by some one(s) checking out Olde Scooters ramblings. Romania  is a very beautiful country, where the history is deep and the mythologies dense. It's also famous for housing many hundreds of brilliant hackers and other web geniuses. "Many fortified churches and castles" What's this "Dracula" thing? This is  a not atypical count from the Blogger "Stats" report.                 SeniorJunior page views last few days . United States 312 Romania 32 Germany 15 France 9 Russia 8 United Kingdom 7 Portugal 7 South Korea 5 Peru 5 Canada 3 And they build a pretty cool line of cars I have never heard of.. Dacia Duster  Romania is a southeastern European country known for the forested region of Transylvania, ringed by the