Meet the world’s largest plant: A single seagrass clone stretches 180 km in Western Australia’s Shark Bay
Seagrass news is constant lately. Sugar hoarder, nitrogen fixer, it is a ecosystem superstar. “Who cares.” you say but it is an incredibly productive ecosystem with large carbon storage capacity.
Also, a chef was trying to cultivate it as food source in Spain.
Around here, Euro green crab is trying hard to pull it out by the roots.
Malaria
I posted on a potential Malaria vaccine last fall. This new approach offers an interesting alternative.
Steve had malaria at one point and it was no fun according to him. I can believe it.
It is often forgotten that malaria was as far north as Canada once. I remember the mosquito ditches in MA marshes, for example. I think it was Mann’s 1493 book that had good info on malaria in the Americas.
Math
The first part of this article describes a spooky math result. It makes you wonder what makes the universe love pi so much or as they say.
F∞(x+2π)=F∞(x), for all values of x.
If this doesn’t seem like a spectacular miracle to you, you’re not looking hard enough.
The video has more detail.