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<pre wrap="">Stuart,
The following excerpt from another mailing list brings up the hoary idea
that some microbiologists are meeting untimely and conspiratorial deaths.
Any comments?
Terry
So far 88 microbiologists seem to have died under more-or-less
suspicious circumstances in the United States, the United Kingdom and
Western Europe (combined).
But even such a relatively small population center as Greater
Cincinnati, Ohio, has four or five universities and a consortium of
hospitals, and thus employs THOUSANDS of microbiologists. Moreover,
the universities and in-house hospital educational programs graduate
hundreds more new microbiologists every year. And, again, that's
merely one relatively minor population area.
So if there is indeed a plot or conspiracy to wipe out
microbiologists, or even to seriously thin their ranks, it strikes me
as a remarkably ineffective one.</pre>
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<pre wrap="">I am delighted but not surprised. Nature is genius and
we are Her students. As a microbiologist I firmly
believe that microbes will save or damn the world
depending on what we do with them.
--- Jeff Davis <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jrd1415@yahoo.com"><jrd1415@yahoo.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Extropes,
I thought this interesting.
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<pre wrap=""><!----><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/archive/2005/062205microbes.html">http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/archive/2005/062205microbes.html</a>
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<pre wrap="">“Such long, thin conductive structures are
unprecedented in biology,” said Lovley. “This
completely changes our concept of how microorganisms
can handle electrons, and it also seems likely that
microbial nanowires could be useful materials for
the
development of extremely small electronic devices.”
The findings ... are “promising and exciting,”
although ... the information must be independently
confirmed and extended by other microbiologists and
biophysicists.
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Humanity is so very proud of its technological
sophistication. Stainless steel tech gear,
micro/nano
computer gizmos, flashing LEDs, crisp white lab
coats.
But occasionally, when a fragment of the vast
unknown
is revealed, I think of Dr. F's Igor, the
overdressed
neanderthal. Dumber than a sackfull of hammers.
Present company excepted, of course. ;-)
Best, Jeff Davis
"Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
Ray Charles
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Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu
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