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Background in Sustainable Food Systems, currently finishing a MSc in Human Nutrition and Food-Related Behavior. Particularly interested in food literacy, nutritional value chains, and how they can be both linked to a sustainable food system. Avid reader of broad-range science and fiction/non-fiction presenting new perspectives. Creative cook, board game player, and proud Servas traveler.
How do Polypedilum vanderplanki larvae survive without water, and what role alternative splicing plays in this? Who the hell is Polypedilum vanderplanki and why should I be interested…
Most people associate virtual reality (VR) with videogames that offer an immersive experience. Raise a hand, and your avatar will raise its hand; turn your head, and your avatar will see a different part of the virtual room.
We all know the discomfort of having a wound after a fall: the throbbing pain when our skin is first injured, the care we must take to keep it covered and disinfected, the itchiness while it heals. But wounds can form for reasons other than accidental injury and remain open for much longer than the typical couple of weeks
It is estimated that every 2.6 seconds, a new chemical substance is isolated or synthesized, adding to nearly 200 million identified chemical substances in the world. While many of these are essential for society and not harmful to the environment, one effect of this proliferation of chemicals in our everyday lives has been the increase of polluted environments with multiple contaminants.
If you venture into the woods in Southern Finland, around the Hanko area, you’ll find groups of mounds with hundreds of ants dwelling on top that will spit acid at you when provoked.
You may not realise it, but many of the medicines sold in pharmacies are either directly sourced from nature or have an underlying operating principle drawn from a natural process. Widely used pain relievers paracetamol and aspirin? Originally derived from coal tar and willow bark, respectively.
By Jadwiga Buchwald and Otso PerÄkylÄ (@peacelovestatistiX) To read part I, click here The Great food transformation: Turning the problem into a solution? So, is the planetary health diet the… Read More »World Changing Diet –Part II
By Jadwiga Buchwald and Otso PerÄkylÄ (@peacelovestatistiX) The Planetary Boundaries: Have we pushed our planet to the limit? “It is a planetary emergency,” says world-renowned Professor Johan Rockström in his… Read More »World Changing Diet – Part I
While the Polish man battled for his life, something intriguing was happening in a lab 800 km away at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Jean Rommelaere and his team were engrossed in a particular experiment.
Illustration by Ushanandini Mohanraj Nearly 3.5 billion years ago, our planet had extreme temperatures and was predominantly covered with water. The hostile environment was devoid of oxygen and high in… Read More »Strange looking viruses and their super hosts – The archaea