Tuesday, November 24, 2015

The purpose of life

My Craigslist Haiku Hotel submission...timestamped for my everlasting satisfaction.  LOL 
The purpose of life (anything else? speculation! frish > 2015-11-24 22:51
You are what you eat
microbiome controls us
To make more soil

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-gut-microbes-brain-full.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter 


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Of course, there is another view, the bacteria are dependent on us, much like the bacteria within alfalfa plants:

In alfalfa, this transformation of bacteria is called differentiation, which Wang likens to domestication, because it makes the bacteria reliant on their plant host. "They are no longer wild and able to live outside the plant," he says. "I think of it as analogous to domestication of animals by humans." He adds, "Bacteria that can no longer proliferate as free-living individuals are a bit like slaves at that point, living to serve the plant."

From an article somewhere... http://phys.org/news/2015-11-harnessing-peptide-crop-yields-fertilizer.html#jCp