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… and some other food stuff…

First, I’m not allergic to gluten and I’m “only” about 95%” gluten free. I still have some piece of pie or pizza when it’d be a bit rude to say “no”, for example when I’m invited over for dinner and a nice lady baked an apple pie with love without knowing I don’t eat...

I highly recommend this book if you want to learn more about food forests, urban homesteading, self sufficiency, being in harmony with Earth, and Permaculture in general. It’s a wealth of information.

Massive Phytoplankton Bloom Discovered Under Arctic Sea Ice

Scientists have made a biological discovery in Arctic Ocean waters as dramatic and unexpected as finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert. A NASA-sponsored expedition punched through three-foot thick sea ice to find waters richer in microscopic marine plants, essential to all sea life, than any other ocean region on Earth.

The discovery is the result of an oceanographic expedition called ICESCAPE, or Impacts of Climate on EcoSystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment. The NASA-sponsored mission explored the seas along Alaska’s western and northern coasts onboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker during the summers of 2010 and 2011. The finding reveals a new consequence of the Arctic’s warming climate and provides an important clue to understanding the impacts of a changing climate and environment on the Arctic Ocean and its ecology.

This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: ‪http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10907

Engineered robot interacts with live fish

via kurzweilai:

A bioinspired robot has provided the first experimental evidence that live zebrafish can be influenced by engineered robots — a step toward using autonomous robots in an open environment to protect endangered animals and control pest species. […]

[read more @kurzweilai & @iop] [paper] [image credit: G Polverino et al./Bioinspiration & Biomimetics]