Who Knows How

-Doug and The Slugs get bonus points for their dancing Spock.

Today is one of those key days in life, when it’s at a crossroads where everything will be different from the reality in alternate universes. In reality we face the chance of death every single moment, but there are other critical points where we feel the pinch of mortality even more. My Dad is undergoing his second serious surgery in as many decades, and while odds are good he’ll be fine this afternoon, there’s still a chance things will go wrong. He survived his ACOUSTIC NEROMA (vestibular schwannoma), and went on to become an advocate for those with that “benign” tumour. I’m hoping that the Heart and Stroke Foundation (or other) will have the benefit of his work in the coming years.

Feedlot Farms Force Feed Super-bug Mutators

North America’s obsession with cheap meat is giving rise to a looming health crisis (in more ways than one). We knew before that it was dangerous to give antibiotics to animals constantly in their food, but now we’ve discovered it’s actively causing the problem of antibiotic resistant “super-bugs”. That’s because the low doses of antibiotics cause higher levels of mutations in bacteria, thus giving rise to more chances that a super-bug will evolve out of the previously destructible bacteria. It was previously thought that the antibiotics just passively weeded out the weaker bacteria when a rare mutation occurred. The mutations are not rare, they’re actively stimulated by our drug use in animal feed.

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Hat tip to Dr. Hepting