Finally got around to reading Sterling’s “An Essay on the New Aesthetic”
“That is my thesis; that’s why I think this matters. When I left the room at the SXSW “New Aesthetic” panel, this is what concerned me most. I left with t...
Category: The Narrative
We interrupt our usual program …… Down With Everything
Thomas Friedman recently wrote about a discussion he had with Frank Fukyama on the two-volume opus Fukyama is working on “The Origins of Political Order.&...
The wacky world of horizontal gene transfer, genomic variants, and what we think are microbial species
“The main difference from eukaryotes is that prokaryotic reproduction is independent of DNA acquisition and recombination. Instead, DNA is obtained from f...
Another article on “Patterns of Early Gut Colonization Shape Future Immune Responses of the Host” in PLoS ONE
“In conclusion, a time window exists that enables the artificial colonization of GF mice by a single oral dose of caecal content, which may modify the fut...
New Old Publishing and “The New Value of Text”
“Finally, the text still requires context. As publishers spin up their digital and print-on-demand backlists, more and more is published with less and les...
Gut microbes and immunity: The hygiene hypothesis, peak antibiotics, and the post-Pasteurian Age
“Exposure to microbes during early childhood is associated with protection from immune-mediated diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and asth...
International Human Microbe Program Looks Ahead – ScienceInsider
Indeed, Sharp said at the meeting, patients who come to Cleveland Clinic for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease express their own concerns about such appro...
Microbiome sequencing offers hope for diagnostics : Nature News & Comment
“Jonathan Eisen [@phylogenomics], a microbiologist at University of California, Davis, is worried that microbiome research will eventually encounter the s...
Dangerous C. difficile infections soar in US, but Massachusetts hospitals have cut germ’s spead – The Boston Globe
“A life-threatening germ that causes diarrhea and spreads easily from doctors’ offices to hospitals and nursing homes has climbed to historic highs nation...
Macro and Micro Diversity of Clostridium difficile Isolates from Diverse Sources and Geographical Locations – PLoS ONE
“Clostridium difficile has emerged rapidly as the leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrheal disease, with the temporal and geographical appearance ...