Apparently the high cost of higher education has lead to this:
It's never too early to start saving for college.
Posted on 10/06/2018 2:02:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Pentagon research project called "Insect Allies." Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the project involves using gene-editing techniques like CRISPR to infect insects with modified viruses that could help make America's crops more resilient. If a cornfield were hit by an unexpected drought or suddenly exposed to a pathogen, for example, Insect Allies might deploy an army of aphids carrying a genetically modified virus to slow the corn plant's growth rate.
According to the DARPA website, these "targeted therapies" could take effect in a single growing season, potentially protecting the American crop system from food security threats like disease, flooding, frost and even "threats introduced by state or non-state actors.
… Insect Allies, is less concerned. "Anytime you're developing a new and revolutionary technology, there is that potential for [both offensive and defensive] capability," Bextine told The Washington Post. "But that is not what we are doing. We are delivering positive traits to plants… We want to make sure we ensure food security, because food security is national security in our eyes."
Insect Allies is still in the early stages of development, and at least four U.S. colleges (Boyce Thompson Institute, Penn State University, The Ohio State University and the University of Texas at Austin)have received funding to carry out research. Bextine told The Washington Post that the project recently achieved its first milestone — testing whether an aphid could infect a stalk of corn with a designer virus that caused fluorescence. According to the Washington Post, "the corn glowed."
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Good idea, only I’ll have Tom the Brother take her to Baskin Robbins when he gets home from school. Kathleen got a gift card from OldTax-lady for her Birthday Observed.
If there are no Mondays in Heaven , and we only get them once a week, that means that somewhere there could be a stock pile of Mondays.
An Announcement follows:
Ladies, there are two new episodes of Midsomer Murders out in the wild.
Just thought you might like a heads up.
They have more twisting turns than you can shake a stick at.
Apparently the high cost of higher education has lead to this:
It's never too early to start saving for college.
Then that leaves... someplace very warm where Mondays must be suffered. ;o]
I cannot get Midsomer Murders, here, so I guess I’ll have to rent some at the library. Unless Netflix has them...they want me to join again. I would if I could keep politics out of it...
My dad always figured that any place with an escalator must have a really big attic, or a really big basement.
If there are it won't matter..
Sounds like something I should do as an indulgence.
Late to the party but, “Yayyyyy, Kathleen!”
I have a few laundry conundrums (conundra) myself. Everyone, please feel free to correct me. I’d appreciate it! Thx!
Thank you, Mr. moose,
After having binge watched “Downton Abbey,” I’m thrilled to have a new escape!
We are so blessed to live in God’s country.
Heh! If I hadn’t received a couple of scholarships and admission to a college that only accepted the top 5-10% of their high school class, I would have been doing something else for a living.
Heh! If I hadn’t received a couple of scholarships and admission to a college that only accepted the top 5-10% of their high school class, I would have been doing something else for a living.
I just read an interesting book about the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, whose family home was used in filming “Downton Abbey.” The Earl was the co-discoverer of King Tut’s tomb, and the Countess was the illegitimate daughter of Alfred de Rothschild.
There were some elements of the Carnarvons’ lives used in the show.
“Downton Abbey” is a special sort of saga, don’t you think? A little like “Roots,” but with white folks. (Oh, golly! Who said that??)
“Midsomer Murders” was on every Monday morning, in Henderson, so I watched it while I was sorting clothes. I guess I’ll have to rent at the library. Otherwise, I’ll never get my fix.
Thank you for precious kitteh! Have a great day!
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