heya, check out the summary i posted :)

The article is open access: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.70051

Summary

• Bread wheat, the world's second major food crop, is crucial for global nutrition. Enhancing Zn and Fe bioavailability in wheat grain can combat human nutritional deficiencies. There is demonstrated potential for AM fungi to support these goals through increased uptake of Zn and Fe into wheat. However, AM fungi can also increase P uptake, leading to higher phytic acid levels in the grain, which can hinder Zn and Fe absorption in the digestive system.
• Eight Australian wheat varieties were grown with or without AM fungi (Rhizophagus irregularis) and two soil P treatments (addition of 0 or 25 mg P kg−1 soil) in a controlled growth environment. At maturity, plants were harvested and analysed for grain biomass, nutrition, phytate and 2D spatial elemental distribution within grain using X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy.
• Our results indicated that the AM-colonised plants had greater grain biomass and accumulated greater amounts of P and Zn in whole grain and Zn in the aleurone layer, but not Fe. Increased P did not raise phytate levels, leading to overall higher Zn and Fe bioavailability in AM-inoculated plants compared to non-inoculated controls.
• AM fungal inoculation could be a promising strategy for producing wheat grain with higher micronutrient bioavailability for human nutrition, without compromising agronomic practices (P fertiliser application) or yield targets.

If you replace a short haul flight with a ride on a train you could easily cut carbon emissions by 75% Source

Diamond Age here we come :)

Both caffeine and ephedrine are stimulants.

Heh, I have two laptops: one with Arch and one with Ubuntu. I like both systems. I guess i like triggering myself.

isnt the name of one of the hl2 maps "little odessa"?

What are birds? We just dont know! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0Y2hVe_bw

If you mean an Immune escape that is not a real problem for rabies because that virus has a slow evolution as you can tell from the fact that the same vaccines that were used in the 80s are still used today. Compare that for example to flu or Covid-19 vaccines where even two year old vaccine types are considered outdated and not used anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_circumference#Eratosthenes

There is a limit on the spacing of the colour bands though. If you want colours then you have to hit the spots where the correct phosphors are and this limits the usable resolution.

So, i read the "Red Mars" trilogy. I also keep up with research into the Martian atmosphere, its soil and geology.

My take is that all of this is still a pipe dream as much as it was 30 years ago when we did not know many of these things.
People don't want to see just how hostile Mars is to life. They pick a couple of the most obvious problems (e.g. radiation, no liquid water, no oxygen) and then they look for the first solution that seems viable and then declare Mars somehow liveable because look we can just implement those things.

But they are completely ignoring that: none of these proposed solutions have been implemented at scale yet, at least not outside of earth' atmosphere, there are hundreds of other known problems that often just don't make it to the head lines because they don't look that interesting or threatening (example: dust is suuuuper deadly on Mars, probably even worse than moon dust) and many problems will undoubtedly only become obvious once living beings are on the surface of Mars.

I am glad that there is hard sci-fi dealing with some of these problems in very optimistic ways, because we should try to better our understanding of them and not just give up, but we also should not have any illusions about how hard this task is and that this can take centuries of work.