EnrobingFood is when you are Coating one product with another” Chocolate is a popular one when you cover a biscuit, for instance.
An enrober, according to Wikipedia: machine used in the confectionery industry to coat a food item with a coating medium, typically chocolate.
Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary:
“We do not have an entry for enrobe.”
So, what is it? Vanity? Pretentiousness? The wafer cookies are produced by the Loacker family on a mountain in Sicily, and perhaps they are royalty or wish to be so enrobed in the garment sense.
But wasn’t this entry about a word? Mostly. Entries about words (mostly) will appear as things of many things.
Whatever shape your housekeeping is in. it will be worse on the International Space Station.
Mutant Bacteria Discovered Aboard International Space Station
As subtitle:
It’s Alive!
What is?
“In a press release, NASA said that when scientists from the Jet Propulsion Lab looked at samples of the drug-resistant Enterobacter bugandensis bacteria found on the orbital outpost, they found that the strains had mutated into something that literally doesn’t exist on Earth.
“‘Study findings indicate that under stress, the ISS isolated strains were mutated and became genetically and functionally distinct compared to their Earth counterparts,'” the press release reads. “‘The strains were able to viably persist in the ISS over time in significant abundances.'”
And more than that,
“What’s even crazier: E. bugandensis was apparently able to not only coexist ‘with multiple other microorganisms,’ but was also demonstrated in some cases to “‘have helped those organisms survive.'”
And the Microbe itself:
“Study findings indicate that under stress, the ISS isolated strains were mutated and became genetically and functionally distinct compared to their Earth counterparts. The strains were able to viably persist in the ISS over time in significant abundances.”
Where is it there?
“According to the paper, the strains studied in the new research were “isolated from various locations within the ISS,” along with all the other nasty stuff that causes its peculiar smell. “
Does the station stink?
“Along with E. bugandensis, NASA has been studying other potentially harmful viruses, fungi, and bacteria as part of its second microbial tracking mission, which has astronauts literally scrape the ISS walls and put what they find under microscopes to see how weird they got.”
So, if you go up there, be careful you don’t catch something.
In search for alien life, purple may be the new green
Green is the color we think of as meaning life,
“But an Earth-like planet orbiting another star might look very different, potentially covered by bacteria that receive little or no visible light or oxygen, as in some environments on Earth, and instead use invisible infrared radiation to power photosynthesis.”
And here on Earth:
“Instead of green, many such bacteria on Earth contain purple pigments, and purple worlds on which they are dominant would produce a distinctive “light fingerprint” detectable by next-generation ground- and space-based telescopes, Cornell scientists report in new research.”
What are they?
“What is collectively referred to as purple bacteria actually have a range of colors, including yellow, orange, brown, and red, due to pigments related to those that make tomatoes red and carrots orange. They thrive on low-energy red or infrared light using simpler photosynthesis systems utilizing forms of chlorophyll that absorb infrared and don’t make oxygen.”
For finding life on other planets:
“Purple bacteria can survive and thrive under such a variety of conditions that it is easy to imagine that on many different worlds, purple may just be the new green.”
Photographer captures image of rare fish that walks on its ‘hands’
A few columns back, I posted an item about the angler fish that fishes for fish through an attached lure. Here is another fishing fish, but they walk on their hands.
Where is the handfish found?
“In the dark and silty depths of Tasmania’s Derwent River, an unusual kind of fish can be found walking – not swimming – along the riverbed. The spotted handfish, which moves using pectoral fins that look like hands, lurks in the murky depths, ready to pounce on any prey it attracts with the fluffy lure above its mouth. Its cream coloring and dark brown or orange spots blend in with the sandy floor, making the fish hard to spot, and even harder to photograph. This, coupled with the fact that the species is critically endangered, with fewer than 3,000 individuals thought to remain in the wild.”
And there is hope for them:
“Efforts to preserve the spotted handfish, and its even more critically endangered relatives, the red handfish and Ziebell’s handfish, are ongoing. The National Handfish Recovery Team plans to revive all three species, which are found in the waters of south-eastern Australia. Of the red handfish, only 100 adults are thought to remain, while the Ziebell’s hasn’t been spotted in the wild since 2007.”
People living in 850 B.C. may seen one, according to this ridiculously odorously titled article:
‘You could almost see and smell their world’: Remnants of ‘Britain’s Pompeii’ reveal details of life in Bronze Age village
“Archaeologists are studying a Bronze Age village built on stilts to better understand the lifestyles of the people who lived there.”
The items they found show some details of the kind of life they lived like back then:
“In the years since the site’s discovery, researchers have studied Must Farm extensively, which has given them a better understanding of its unique architecture and the people who lived there, according to two new reports published March 5. For instance, the unique roundhouses built on stilts provided researchers with a “blueprint” of circular architecture from that time and place, as well as clues about what Bronze Age domestic life would’ve been like, according to the statement.”
If you lived there, what would you have?
“Archaeologists also unearthed numerous artifacts, including a “stack of spears” with nearly 10-foot-long (3 meters) shafts, jars, textile fragments, an ax, a pottery bowl with the remains of a wheat-based porridge mixed with animal fats, a wooden spatula, animal bones, and a necklace made with beads that originated in Denmark and Iran. Also, ten-foot spears (?).
And here’s another “oh, dear!” item: “Researchers also found a human skull “rendered smooth by touch, hinting that it may have served as a “memento of a lost loved one,” according to the statement. An argument gone bad? If you lived there, you’d have a ten-foot spear.
And they knew what they were doing: “‘These people were confident and accomplished homebuilders,'” report co-author Mark Knight, an excavation director in the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU), said in the statement. ‘They had a design that worked beautifully for an increasingly drowned landscape.'”
I have two issues with this entry. First, the title of the article. Do we really want to know what it smelled like back then? Second, Pompeii? That is kind of a stretch. Whatever, that was how they lived back then if you’re interested (or not).
Technicolor ‘living magic carpet’ deep-sea worm discovered near methane seep off Costa Rica
A new species that is a sea worm that looks like a snake or a carpet?
“‘The rosy-colored, segmented worms appeared to swim through water like a “living magic carpet,'” scientists say.”
“The worm, named Pectinereis strickrotti, is a type of ragworm, or Nereididae. It was first spotted by researchers in 2009, as they explored a methane seep found at a depth of 3,280 feet (1,000 meters) while onboard a deep-sea submersible called Alvin.
In 2019, the team returned to the same area and spotted six more of the critters and were able to take images, videos and samples needed to formally classify P. strickrotti as a new species. The team described their findings in a paper published March 6 in the journal PLOS One. “
So, what is he?
“P. strickrotti has a segmented, elongated body which is around 4 inches (10 centimeters) long. Like other ragworms, it looks like a cross between a centipede and an earthworm. It also lives in marine environments, as many ragworms do, although P. strickrotti lives in deep sea rather than shallower waters. “
Here is a male P.strickrotti
So, if you’re vacationing in Costa Rica, you might see some when you go to the beach.
“Artificial intelligence is peering into restaurant garbage pails and crunching grocery-store data to try to figure out how to send less uneaten food into dumpsters.”
Now, how determined?
“A hotel chain installs a camera in its trash bins to spy on what guests are tossing. Turns out its breakfast croissants are too big. Many are going to waste — along with profits.
A supermarket can suddenly see, hidden in its own sales data, that yellow onions aren’t selling as fast as red onions and are more likely to be trashed.
The brains behind both of these efforts: Artificial intelligence.”
About food waste (and what will you be eating or trashing?):
“Refed, the research group, found in its 2022 estimates that 70 percent of wasted food at restaurants is food that’s left on the plate, signaling a need to reconsider portion sizes.”
Here is my ersatz journal with an unfortunate date where I should say something funny, but I can’t think of anything so I’ll just say something funny about how this is the second shot at today’s OION since WP screwed the first shot.
Infant behavior regarding shit on the part of adult sperm whales:
Sperm whales drop giant poop bombs to save themselves from orca attack
“Sperm whales blasted a “big dark bubble” of poop to prevent an impending orca attack off the southern coast of Western Australia. ABC
‘It’s called defense defecation,’ Jennah Tucker, a marine biologist with Oceans Blueprint, a marine and environmental sciences research organization, who was on the charter boat, told ABC. When the animals defecate, she said, they pass their huge tails through their poop to drive away or confuse attackers.
This is another fact about what scares off Orcas: “Because [a] sperm whale’s diet consists mostly of squid, they actually have this really reddish colored poo,” she said.
Scientists watched this happen. “They described seeing a ‘cloud of diarrhea’ permeate the water, and this rarely seen defense mechanism seemed to help the sperm whale pod escape what could have been a fatal attack by at least 30 killer whales.”
Australia battles to save last 11 wild ‘earless dragons
“The earless dragon—which is light brown and has long white stripes down its body—measures about 15 centimeters (the size of a US$1 bill) when fully grown.It lacks an external ear opening and functional eardrum, hence the name.
Australia has four species of earless dragons. Three are critically endangered, the highest level of risk, while the fourth is endangered.“
Conservation efforts are underway since the lizards are threatened by habitat destruction.
Here’s an Earless Dragon:===================================================
Bring them back alive (two)
Indonesian zoo breeds dozens of endangered baby Komodo dragons
“An Indonesian zoo has welcomed dozens of new baby Komodo dragons hatched in captivity in recent months as part of a breeding programme, its director said Tuesday, offering hope for efforts to conserve the endangered species. And they are in trouble. Just 3,458 adult and baby species are left in the wild, according to estimates.”
And there is hope for them.
“But a breeding programme in Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya is trying to change that, successfully breeding 29 dragons in incubators between February and March. ‘
We have habitats that mirror the Komodo’s natural habitat, including its humidity and temperature,’ zoo director Chairul Anwar told AFP.”
14-inch spacecraft delivers new details about ‘hot Jupiters’
“The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) spacecraft is about the size of a cereal box. It has also recorded incredibly detailed measurements of the atmospheres of planets hundreds of light-years from Earth.”
It is the “size of a cereal box” and the purpose is to measure “hot Jupiter’s” atmosphere readings and Since its launch in September 2021, CUTE has trained its single ultraviolet telescope at a series of hot Jupiters, some hundreds of light-years from Earth.”
So, a Hot Jupiter?
“Hot Jupiters are among the hottest and angriest planets in the galaxy. As their name suggests, they are gas giants like our own Jupiter. These planets, however, hug much closer to their home stars, completing an orbit roughly once every several Earth days.”
And the good news?
“CUTE is still working and collecting data today.”
Two different viewpoints in the same issue of Phys Org!
GALILEO: Scientists propose a new method to search for light dark matter
by Tejasri Gururaj , Phys.orgv.
A study, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, challenges the current model of the universe by showing that, in fact, it has no room for dark matter.Okay. I’ve been in the dark about that myself. However:
New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter
For Galileo: “Dark matter is one of the most pressing challenges in modern physics, with dark matter particles being elusive and hard to detect. This has prompted scientists to come up with new and innovative ways to look for these particles.
There are several candidates for dark matter particles, such as WIMPs, light dark matter particles (axions), and the hypothetical gravitino. Light dark matter, including bosonic particles like the QCD (quantum chromo dynamics) axion, has become a point of interest in recent years.”
“A study, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, challenges the current model of the universe by showing that, in fact, it has no room for dark matter.”
And also
“In standard cosmology, the accelerated expansion of the universe is said to be caused by dark energy but is in fact due to the weakening forces of nature as it expands, not due to dark energy.”
So, is it out there or not? We can argue among ourselves or forget it.
Last April, the first spaceship blew up 24 miles over the gulf of Mexico. In November The second almost made it to orbit, but both stages ended up exploding.
This time,
“Most of the flight proceeded smoothly, and a number of test objectives were achieved during the flight, like opening and closing the spacecraft’s payload doors, which will be needed to deliver cargo in the future.”
That is nicely done, but, [However], “the final landing burn for the booster, conducted over the Gulf of Mexico, did not fully succeed — an area that SpaceX will attempt to fix for future flights.”
SpaceX said the Super Heavy disintegrated at an altitude of about 1,500 feet.”
More details of all kinds of problems will arise. X wants to land astronauts on the moon. This means that the next one will have people in it. Remember the Challenger? Hopefully, enough lessons have been learned.
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That is that that for this post. I will be posting poems during the week.
en·robed, en·rob·ing.
POETRY, PROSE AND ANYTHING GOES 