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Feb 27, 1948: The obscure screwball reincarnation fantasy/comedy LET'S LIVE AGAIN premiered. The brother of a nuclear scientist dies, but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.


At the moment, it's on Youtube.


"To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion."

"To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism."
- Walter Cronkite, “Report From Vietnam,” February 27, 1968


Transcript: Walter Cronkite's "We Are Mired in Stalemate" Broadcast

Part 4 Video clip Walter Cronkite's Report from Vietnam February 28, 1968.


Some Pictures of the Day by Reuters | February 27, 2024:



Some photos of the Day by The Guardian:




What else can they put in lab-grown meat? Will it fatten up a human race for the ET culling?

SEOUL — Sitting in a coffee shop near one of Seoul’s most prestigious universities, Jinkee Hong carefully pondered the right words to describe the aroma and flavor of his lab creation: a bowl of pink rice.

“Although it hasn’t been approved for public consumption, I have personally tasted it. I might say it smells something like beef,” he said in a Zoom video call, adding that it was rather bland.

But flavor isn’t Hong’s focus. It’s what’s attached to the rice — lab-grown animal protein — and what it means about the future of food.
“I believe, in the future, this can make the world a better place in terms of sustainability and food safety,” he said.

Hong, a professor in Yonsei University’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, worked with colleagues to grow beef cells inside of rice grains coated in fish gelatin and familiar food-grade enzymes. The end result: a bowl of rice that has 8 percent more protein than a normal serving and produces the same amount of carbon emissions as the grain crop, a staple food for about half of the world’s population. The findings were published in a paper that Hong co-authored in the journal Matter this month.

“I’m a polymer engineer, and not a nutritionist or food expert,” Hong said. “An 8 percent increase in protein may not seem significant, but the fact that actual animal protein can be consumed through rice is important.”

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“This is the vision that the whole field is aspiring toward, for sure,” said Amy Rowat, a professor of integrative biology and physiology at the University of California at Los Angeles. “The million-dollar question is, when will we see this in your grocery store? I think we are still some ways away.”

For at least 10 years, scientists around the world have been looking for the right “scaffolding” — what some call a “microcarrier” — upon which they can raise cultured animal protein and fat cells. In 2013, a scientist from the Netherlands attracted international attention when he grew a hamburger patty in a Petri dish and then presented it for a guest to eat it on live television. The beef patty cells were harvested after they proliferated on the surface of inedible microbeads.

Cultivated meats have attracted billions of dollars in investment but are still costly to produce and difficult to scale. Only two countries in the world — the United States and Singapore — allow consumers to buy them. Some companies are working on new, hybrid products: for example, plant-based meat with animal fat incorporated for taste. But even sales of plant-based meat alternatives have slid after a strong market debut.

At least half of all U.S. adults in a 2023 survey said they were “not at all likely” to try lab-grown meat. Among them, 56 percent said it “just sounds weird,” and nearly half said they weren’t convinced eating it would be safe.

“Definitely, one of the hurdles is public perception. … The taste and disgust factor is something that comes up often,” Rowat said. “If you call a food ‘lab-grown,’ that is not an incentivizing factor and it doesn’t really convey how the meat is actually produced.”

“But if you eat Doritos, for example, so much science is poured into that food — and people are more willing to accept it.”

For now, Hong’s rice is not ready for supermarket shelves, but he hopes to tinker with the ratio of protein and fat cells to maximize its nutritional value and improve the taste, which carries flavors of almond from the muscle protein cells and butter from the fat cells. It doesn’t quite taste like beef, he said, because there is no blood.

“If I were a chef,” he said, “I may have to use some seasoning to make it feel very delicious.”

What a lab-made meat-rice hybrid says about the future of food

Rest assured we will see a huge propaganda campaign from the bureau of perception touting lab grown food is safe & better for you. Avoid every & any corporate food chain restaurant. Over time you won't know the difference unless you kill it yourself.

The future in MRE's...that's a hard pass for me.


Source: see "paper" link above.


Junk, Food: 1942

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"American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders." Four-part docuseries tomorrow on NETFLIX - trailer:






I asked Google Gemini to create a Norman Rockwell style image that would be sufficiently Woke. This is what I got...




What the "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!"...The ministry of woke strikes again...

Now the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), the UK’s government-approved film regulator, seems to agree that Mary Poppins is racist – although not for its alleged ‘blackface’. This week, the BBFC raised the film’s age rating from U to PG due to its ‘discriminatory language’.

The language in question is the rather archaic racial slur ‘hottentot’. This was once used by Europeans to describe indigenous South Africans as primitive barbarians. In the film, it is uttered by a senile man.

The BBFC is convinced that children could find this term ‘distressing’, although it seems unlikely they will even know what it means. Indeed, this is probably why it has hidden in plain sight for so many decades – and why most modern parents are still comfortable showing the film to children.
It’s official: even Mary Poppins is ‘racist’ now (UK magazine, born in 2001)

Hottentot from 1670s, from South African Dutch, said in old Dutch sources to be a word that means "stammerer," from hot en tot "hot and tot," nonsense words imitative of stammering. The word was applied to the people for the clicking, jerking quality of Khoisan speech. 

Dagga: "marijuana, Cannabis sativa smoked as a narcotic," 1660s, from Afrikaans, from Khoisan (Hottentot) dachab. Originally the name of an indigenous plant used as a narcotic, extended to marijuana by 1796.

More Hottentot in next post...