The Indelible Stamp of our Lowly Origins
I’ve been a participant in the evolution-creation struggle, from years ago on USENET in talk.origins, so I’ve heard all the blather at the beginning, many times. I was aware of the chromosome fusion between other apes and humans, but unaware how well the recent DNA sequencing had addressed the issue. It’s near the end.
Recipe For Safer Drinking Water? Add Sun, Salt And Lime
“So basically you add dirt and salt, to make the water cleaner?” I asked him.
“Right,” said Pierce laughing, “It’s not exactly intuitive.”
Perhaps not so intuitive to the average person, but it’s a process that may be more familiar to makers of wine, where bentonite is commonly used to clarify wine of impurities.
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Schwab and medical student Alexander Harding discovered that adding a half a Persian lime to a two-liter bottle of water reduced the disinfection time in the sun from six hours to a half an hour. That’s just about the same amount of time it takes to boil water, and much more energy efficient.