Tapping into the Desert Winds for Energy

Say what you will about the Chinese but the fact is there is enough good heart in the people to move forward as a country, for everyone’s betterment and not just for a few.

The picture above shows Dunhuang, an oasis deep in the Gobi Desert along the famed Silk Road which has become a center for China’s drive to lead the world in wind and solar energy.  Photo by Anna Lindquist for the New York Times.

Yummy & Healthy

Flaky and luscious sea bass on a bed of salad greens with onions and tomatoes. Yum!

Older People immune to H1N1

For once it’s better to be older.  Here’s some food for thought, the paragraph below taken from Wired’s latest news on the H1N1 pandemic.

“Results among adults suggest that some degree of preexisting immunity to the novel H1N1 strains exists, especially among adults aged >60 years,” they wrote. “One possible explanation is that some adults in this age group have had previous exposure, either through infection or vaccination, to an influenza A (H1N1) virus that is genetically and antigenically more closely related to the novel influenza A (H1N1) virus than are contemporary seasonal H1N1 strains.”