This is just as mesmerising as it can get https://www.earth.com/news/scientists-find-new-forms-of-life-inside-humans-rna-carriers-obelisks/

So it turns out we might have new living forms inside our own body!

Are we ready to embrace our little Obelisks?!

#morningread #science

New forms of life discovered inside human bodies

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and microscopic life.

Earth.com

RT by @EUClimateAction: How can we use the earth’s internal heat for green energy? 🔥

Thanks to the #InnovationFund, the Eavorloop project in Germany can harness geothermal energy to supply heating and power to its local community 🌍

#EU #MorningRead 👉 https://europa.eu/!KmPKNq

@EUClimateAction

[2024-07-18 06:24 UTC]

The EAVORLOOP story: harnessing the Earth’s energy for a greener transition

By harvesting underground heat without the need for a reservoir, this innovative system has the potential to make geothermal power available virtually anywhere – and the EU’s Innovation Fund is supporting the effort.

Climate Action
Intrigued the first time I read this last year—rereading since Julie Kristeva is on my pile of books I’m #reading. #morningread “The debate has also resurrected old arguments about the intellectual’s relationship w/ the state, particularly in Europe.” Was the Philosopher Julia Kristeva a Cold War Collaborator? https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/was-the-philosopher-julia-kristeva-a-cold-war-collaborator
Was the Philosopher Julia Kristeva a Cold War Collaborator?

Dimiter Kenarov writes about the literary theorist and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, who has been implicated as a collaborator with Bulgaria’s State Security in the early nineteen-seventies.

The New Yorker

RT by @EUClimateAction: In Iceland, an #InnovationFund project is mimicking nature's way to capture CO2 and turn it into stone 🪨

It's environmentally friendly and entirely self-sufficient regarding its water, energy and geological storage needs 💚

#EU #MorningRead 👉https://europa.eu/!qPFMFf

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/cinea_eu/status/1750420028711706827#m

[2024-01-25 07:27 UTC]

Silverstone: mimicking nature’s way to transform CO2 into stone

In Iceland, to the east of Reykjavik, a geothermal powerplant can be spotted in the rugged landscape and it has the ambition to become the first in the world with a near-zero carbon footprint. Thanks to the Innovation Fund.

European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
Taiwan's nonprofit news outlet cuts through island's media noise

The Reporter grabs 119 awards with crowdfunding business model

Nikkei Asia
How a Catholic code of ethics is influencing women's healthcare at Australian public hospitals

There are 21 Catholic public hospitals across Australia. These women say they were deprived healthcare on religious grounds.

ABC News
Early morning books for this week: annotating an advance copy of Gail Simmons’ book Between The Chalk And The Sea, which looks at a long-forgotten pilgrims’ route in England, for a magazine review; and The Greywacke, Nick Davidson’s history of Scottish geology, for my own research. Happy reading!
#books #reading #hiking #geology #morningread