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Scientists Have Discovered A Mushroom That Eats Plastic, And It Could Clean Our Landfills -
This is actually pretty exciting. They’ve found a way to turn plastic into food.
Mushrooms are such amazing things. Most are decomposers, meaning they break stuff down into its original components. Some break down dead wood, or animals, others can break down toxic waste, and apparently this one can break down plastic. How cool is that?
catch me running biorecycling plants filled with pestalotiopsis and waxworm caterpillars, BOTH OF WHICH ARE EDIBLE,
On this day, 2 August 1944, around 4000 Roma people in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp resisted being taken to the gas chambers. The SS swarmed into the Roma camp, but prisoners had armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded themselves indoors, fighting the Nazis with hands and nails. A non-Roma prisoner who survived described that everyone was fighting, and that “women [were] the fiercest in their fight” as they were “younger and stronger” than the other detainees and were “protecting their children”. Tragically they were overcome, and all murdered in the gas chambers in Birkenau.
Pictured: Rudolph Richter, a Roma prisoner at Auschwitz https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1179704358881379/?type=3
On this day, 1 April 1939, the Spanish civil war ended, tragically with victory for general Franco and his Nationalist forces. Workers, largely organised in the anarchist CNT and socialist UGT unions, had launched a social revolution in 1936 and beaten back the right-wing military takeover. But after nearly 3 years of intense fighting, the anti-fascist forces were eventually overcome by brute force. While the “democratic allies” of the Republic like the UK blockaded Spain, military aid for the Nationalists from Nazi Germany and fascist Italy poured in. After hundreds of thousands of deaths, many of the remaining anti-fascists had to flee the country to avoid the punitive mass executions which killed tens of thousands. Spanish refugees were interned in concentration camps in France, which then came under Nazi control during German occupation. But large numbers of civil war veterans joined resistance movements, and help liberate France. We give an overview of the conflict in this podcast episode: https://ift.tt/2EwpotX
Pictured: anti-fascist militia fighters https://ift.tt/2FOlP1A
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Corn Mummy of Osiris
During the mysteries, two statuettes of Osiris were manufactured: one was the Osiris called vegetans, made of silt and grains that were meant to germinate, thereby illustrating the rebirth of nature; the other one was made of silt, resins and ground precious stones, and was called Osiris-Sokaris.
Both statuettes were swaddled according to the required rituals, and deposited in a temporary tomb before being set into their permanent one at the end of the mysteries of the following year.
Sarcophagus: sycamore wood, figurine: earth and grain. Third Intermediate Period, 21st to 25th Dynasty, ca. 1069-664 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 36539
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Trading Scenes of Punt
This sunken relief of Punt is one of many decorated blocks that record the trading expedition sent to the land of Punt by Queen Hatshepsut. Punt was a locality near the Red Sea and the south of Egypt, now southern Sudan or Eritrea or Ethiopia.
The block shows Parehu, the Ruler of Punt, holding a rod. In front of him the Egyptians, guided by Nehsi, present jewelry and an exquisite golden dagger. Standing just behind Parahu is his wife, Ati, who is shown as a fat, deformed person.
It is likely that the Egyptian artist showed her like this because she suffered from the disease known as elephantiasis, which is characterized by the enlargement of a part of the body. It is also likely that the artist exaggerated a little to make a sort of caricature, or comic imitation. The artist recorded all the details of African life. He even depicted small details such as the African collars worn by the Ruler of Punt and his wife and the strokes drawn on their faces.
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Hatshepsut, ca. 1479-1458 BC. Carved and painted limestone, from Deir el-Bahari, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 14276
