Research shows plants such as canola, tomatoes and rice reduce iron uptake when stressed by drought
New research has found that plants actively shut down their own ability to take up iron when they experience drought.
It’s a finding that could have implications for the nutritional value of agricultural crops.
Today in Labor History June 1, 1916: The predominantly immigrant iron miners of the Mesabi Range, Minnesota, launched a spontaneous strike in response to overpriced housing and goods, long hours and poor pay. The group was led by radical Finns who quickly drew the attention and aid of the IWW, including Carlo Tresca, Frank Little, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
Bob Dylan’s song, “North Country Blues,” is about this strike. The lyrics reference "iron ore," "red iron," and "red iron pits," all of which likely refer to the Mesabi Range. Dylan's childhood home in Hibbing, Minnesota is located nearby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pid0Ud4y3XY&list=RDpid0Ud4y3XY&start_radio=1
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Today in Labor History June 1, 1916: The predominantly immigrant iron miners of the Mesabi Range, Minnesota, participated in a seemingly spontaneous strike in response to overpriced housing and goods, long hours and poor pay. The group was led by radical Finns who quickly drew the attention and aid of the IWW. Wobbly organizers, including Carlo Tresca, Joe Schmidt, Frank Little, and later Joe Ettor and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, came to help local strike leaders draw up a list of demands which included an 8-hour day, timed from when workers entered the mine until they were outside; a pay-scale based upon the actual hours worked; paydays twice monthly; immediate back-pay for hours worked upon severance; abolition of the Saturday night shift; abolition of the hated contract mining system. In the Contract Mining system, the bosses hired and paid “skilled” miners to do most of the mining. The contract miners then had to hire their own laborers and pay them out of their meagre wages. The contract miners were often native-born people, while the laborers were usually immigrants. This created a racialized two-tiered system that divided the workers and made it harder to organize. The bosses would routinely offer the contract miners a small concession to get them back to work, while offering the even more poorly paid laborers nothing, destroying their solidarity and ending the strike. Flynn would later go on to cofound the American Civil Liberties Union. Tresca would go on to became a leading organizer against both fascism and Stalinism. He was assassinated in 1943, possibly on orders of the Genovese crime family, possibly on orders of Stalin, and possibly Italian fascists. Frank Little, who was Native American, was later murdered by vigilantes during a strike in Butte. You can read my biography of Frank Little here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #wildcat #mesabi #iron #mining #solidarity #immigrant #ElizabethGurleyFlynn #FrankLittle #racism #vigilantes #nativeamerican #indigenous #fascism #antifascism #soviet #stalin #aclu #mafia
Something both the #Hopi and #Romans (and other cultures) shared -- using plant-based ashes in food and medicine!
#GladiatorGatorade? Ancient Athletes Had A Recovery Drink, Too
by Maria Godoy, October 27, 2014
Excerpt: "#PlantAshes were evidently consumed to fortify the body after physical exertion, and to promote better bone healing,' Fabian Kanz, a forensic anthropologist at the Medical University of Vienna who led the research, said in a statement. 'Things were similar then to what we do today."
"Evidence for this ancient dietary supplement comes from a second-century cemetery for gladiators in what was once the great Roman city of Ephesus, in modern-day Turkey. Kanz and his colleagues have been studying the remains buried there to unravel how these athletes lived. To figure out what they ate, the researchers examined the remains of 22 gladiators using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratio analysis.
"Carbon can tell us about the plants these people ate, while nitrogen offers hints of their animal protein consumption. The gladiators were eating a pretty varied diet, the analysis showed. Some went heavier on the #grains and #greens; some ate more meat.
"When the same tests were run on the remains of 31 regular folks from that era and region, they found the same sorts of variation. In other words, gladiators seemed to be eating the same way as everyone else.
"But the researchers also decided to look at the trace elements of strontium and calcium in those old bones. And that's where a huge difference jumped out. Compared with the regular Joes, the gladiators had a much larger ratio of strontium to calcium.
" 'This is strong evidence that the gladiators were consuming something high in calcium to replenish their calcium stores that other people weren't and that didn't show up in the isotopes,' says Kristina Killgrove, a biological anthropologist at the University of West Florida who studies imperial Rome through ancient bones.
"The researchers wondered: If the gladiators weren't eating more meat than their contemporaries, then where was this calcium boost coming from? A nearly 2,000-year-old encyclopedia offered a tantalizing clue.
"In his #NaturalisHistoria, published in the first century, #PlinyTheElder wrote: 'Your #hearth should be your #MedicineChest. Drink #lye made from its ashes, and you will be cured. One can see how gladiators after a combat are helped by drinking this.'
"Using ash in food and medicine wasn't limited to the Romans. The #Hopis used ash from burned plant leaves and pea pods to prepare #BlueCornmeal foods like #PikiBread and #BivilvikiDumplings. The ash provided essential elements like #calcium, #manganese, #copper and #iron."
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CW: discussion of IV infusions/iron deficiency
Have any of you ever had IV iron infusions? I’ve had on and off iron deficiency anemia all of my adult life, but after my autoimmune diagnosis, my ferritin started plummeting even with supplementation.
It’s been well over a year that I’ve been fighting with all my doctors to get me an iron infusion covered by Alberta Health and my GI specialist is finally helping me do it!!!
I’ve been prescribed Monoferric iron — a one time infusion, instead of the traditional infusion that requires multiple long visits. This helps accommodate my energy limitations and neurodivergence. Sitting for a 2-3 hour IV infusion takes *a lot* out of me so a one time 30 minute infusion is compassionate care.
Have you had a Monoferric iron infusion? Pls tell me about it!
#iron #irondeficiency #medical #health #disability
🪨🔥 #Earth’s inner core reaches about 5,500°C, roughly as hot as the surface of the #sun.
Scientists from UC #SantaCruz and Sun Yat-sen University calculated this using diamond anvil cells and shock-wave experiments that simulate the extreme pressures deep underground. The outer core’s liquid #iron also generates #Earth’s magnetic field, which protects all #life from #solar #radiation.
👉 https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/how-hot-is-earths-core
#geology #temperature #science #magneticfield #planet #heat #solarsystem #geophysics #volcano #earthscience #lifescience
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