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Broke Vegan’s recipes for cauli stalk and lentil tacos and chilli rice noodle salad | Vegan food and drink | The Guardian

Broke Vegan’s speedy stalk and lentil tacos. Source: Broke Vegan’s recipes for cauli stalk and lentil tacos and chilli rice noodle salad | Vegan food and drink | The Guardian

Avian Flu Diary: Denmark SSI: COVID Vaccine Breakthrough Infections Report

– The number of COVID-19 related hospital admissions after breakthrough infections has been gradually increasing from week 41 with a steep increase from week 51 to week 52. The number of hospital admissions after breakthrough infections is at the highest level since the beginning of the vaccination rollout, however, it seems the number has stabilized in the last three weeks (week 52 2021 to week 2 2022).

Source: Avian Flu Diary: Denmark SSI: COVID Vaccine Breakthrough Infections Report

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2  –“P”

Words from Walden

P is for Perspective

“Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind” – Bruce H. Lipton-

The world we see depends 100% on our perception.

Our perspective of life shapes the reality we see at all times.

The way a mountain looks or a stormy sky appears is determined by what we perceive at that moment.  

If we perceive life as not having enough, or that life is scary, unsafe or fearful,  that is what we will see.

If instead we see abundance all around us than we will find patterns of that everywhere in our life.

Albert Einstein said “the most important decision we make is whether we live in a friendly or hostile universe”. A decision? Absolutely! We get to decide what our reality is created from and it all starts with how we perceive the…

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Captive salmon transferred genes to wild fish – Magic Mistura を

And it affected the development of sea salmon, which started to grow faster and migrate earlier. This was concluded by a group of Norwegian scientists, who measured the growth rate of 6,926 salmon caught in the country’s rivers (this is done by analyzing the scales of the animal) over seven years (1). The fish that had received genes from the captive salmon were the ones that exhibited the changes. It is not the first time that farmed salmon have escaped sea farms and created problems: in July 2021, a study (2) revealed that they spread PRV-1, a virus that attacks the kidneys and liver of fish, in Norway, Iceland, Denmark, USA, Chile and Canada.

Source: Captive salmon transferred genes to wild fish – Magic Mistura を

Day 48/67: Five Month GED, Science, Percentages, and Health

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

     How many of us remember why mono-cropping can be a problem, and how it could impact our health, and the health of generations to come?

Reading: “Growing the same crop on a field year after year can cause crop yields to decline as the soil becomes depleted and insect populations become firmly established. Crop rotation, or growing different crops in different years, is one way to avoid these problems. However, discovering the most effective rotation of a number of different crops is difficult, because there are so many possible orders in which to grow them and testing any given crop rotation takes several years.”

This might take some math, huh? 

For example, what might a percentage increase in one year be for a bunch of bugs that have made themselves snuggly at home in a potato field, versus the percentage increase of those bugs if that potato field…

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Parashat Yitro, and Laws, versus Policies

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

     This week’s Torah portion is Parashat Yitro / פָּרָשַׁתיִתְרוֹ  Parashat Yitro is  17th in the annual cycle, covering:Exodus 18:1-20:23and the 5th in the book of Shemot/Exodus.

      This week, traditional congregations (and maybe a few Masorti/Conservative Movement folks) will read Yitro (Jethro)’s advice on organizing policy, and the Giving of The Law at Mt. Sinai.   So, this week, we read about the rule of law, and how to enact the details of that law through policy, as implemented on the advice of a wise planner.

    How do you build a culture where everyone has access to accurate and free legal learning, and  learns how to plan ahead like that?

    

Parashat Beshalach  was last week…

Action Prompts:

    Share your thoughts on how to craft better policy to keep all of us safer, please.   Writing, by thee…

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