If you are a healthy human being with a good diet you probably don't need any supplements at all - stop making snake-oil salesmen richer www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

Good way to cut down on food waste and get some tasty fermented food www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ja...

Being Australian I normally sit in a cold pool watching everything outside melt. Not in Japan, it's reversed!

Christmas Day in a tiny coffee shop in Nagano

New article: Becoming a Hobbit at Heart in 2026 If you’d like to embrace a Hobbit’s perspective going into this new year, here are ten ideas to help you begin your journey. www.teawithtolkien.com/blog/hobbit-...

Glutamate is the primary molecule that neurons use to communicate with each other. Previously, scientists have mostly recorded when neurons fire output signals, but now with a new glutamate indicator, they can record the many inputs that causes cells to fire. 🧵 #neuroskyence

I'm in Japan had had my first taste of Kobe beef. I was so impressed I wrote a blog post on the subject! scifood.blog/2025/12/22/w...

Some Wagyu steak in a local butcher in Kyoto. I don't see beef like this in Australia very often 🙁

This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027. And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...

Moss sporophytes

Has everyone seen this? Full fat cheese linked to lower risk of dementia. "No such association appeared for low-fat cheese or cream, any kind of milk, or fermented milk products such as yogurt and kefir." But, the research has its limitations, alas. #food #foodsky #cooksky #cheese 🍜

Need something to feel good about? I sure do. Here are 7 fantastic science stores from 2025. Science will continue, even if The Regime tries to kill it at home. #Science 🧪

Plants not as waterproof as we previously thought. Upending 200 years of high school biology learning 🙂 theconversation.com/why-does-let...

Okonomiyaki and scallops in Hiroshima Made by Japanese Nonna's (if that's a thing?)

Leftover hack: Chop for KBL salad. Bitter melon tamed. #NoWaste #IlocanoHack

Metagenomics reveals overlooked viral risks in treated water ->News-Medical | #water | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Sitting in a dentist waiting room in Hiroshima for some emergency dental work on my daughter (a cap from a childhood accident came off) Very friendly staff, patient with the language barrier and is costing $70 - I may come to Japan for all future dental work!

#fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #nature #fungi #biology #photography Stereum hirsutum last week.

I’m posting links for making easy, homemade food gifts — great for gift baskets or little things for the neighbors #Food #HomeCooking #Foodgifts #gifts #Homemade #TheOutpost #foodie goodport.blog/2025/08/22/l...

Have you ordered your Christmas eels yet? Don't delay! Medieval kings often served eels at their Xmas feasts. In 1213, King John had 10,000 eels at his holiday party. His son, Henry, once ordered up 40,000! So get on it! You don't want your party to be the First Nö-eel, do you? 🗃️🧪

Things are always more complicated than what you get from cooking shows www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As someone from Australia it's a shame that NASA got all the press when the NIH has been just as important in advancing science. Everyone knows NASA but the average Australian has no idea about the NIH theconversation.com/how-the-nih-...

Kobe beef in Osaka for an expensive but delicious lunch

Should that be: four people taken into custardy? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Short history of smallpox - another reminder of the lives vaccines have saved www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

🧪What an impressive track record! The introduction of vaccines to children caused a ~99% decrease in cases of whooping cough, measles, mumps, diphtheria, rubella & polio. Via unbiasedscipod on IG Sack the Quack Impeach RFK Jr.

A developing a Lamproderma slime mold. Northwest Territories, Canada. Photo covers about 6” of width. Pic from a few years ago in August. A day later this had matured into a several iridescent colours. #myxo #slime #fungifriends

Artomyces pyxidatus, the Crown-tipped Coral or Candelabra Coral fungus, was not seen in the UK over the entire 20th century, its last record in 1886 until a spate of recent findings around 2022, which is when I found this specimen (in East Kent). Where did it disappear all this time?

How much can our perception of flavour be manipulated? Do fine dining restaurants take advantage of our suggestibility? Find out in my latest post. scifood.blog/2025/12/07/a...

When watching cricket I used to be able to just flip between the cricket and some other show I was watching using one button on my remote. Now I need to go to home, enter another streaming service, chose a profile, find the show I was watching, yes I want to resume etc. 😠😠😠😩 Is this progress?

I'm so sick of post-modernism - but that's just my truth I suppose theconversation.com/is-postmoder...

Some brutalist (architecture) porn www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Title says it all aftermath.site/mark-zuckerb...

God save us from influencers the modern version of the cart riding fast talking snake oil salesmen of the past www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I hate snakes and this just scares the beejezus out of me www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...

Kimchi, your helper T cells like it too! theconversation.com/kimchi-may-b...

Not in my household. Rosé still going strong there

Some new research on the nasal microbiome www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"BREAK THE CYCLE take a long, cool drink of water fill your jug again take a long, cool drink of water feel the seep as your body gets wetter forgive the drought of your sin the dry-life boredom, and then take a long, cool drink of water" ©elsp 2025 For whoever needs this. It's ok x #poem #poetry

Even funnier in Australia and Britain, where fanny is not exactly the same thing as it is in the states

Pretty funny. The pick is Curtis Sliwa’s comment on Andrew Cuomo: “Andrew Cuomo is a creep, slappin’ fannies and killin’ grannies.” www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...

Witch's butter or Yellow Brain #fungi

Our read-along of The Silmarillion begins this week! Here are this week’s notes: www.teawithtolkien.com/blog/silm-1

"THE FAIR Drums. Dance. Monkey. Paris dreams In evening haze. He offers Eve a ripened pear and couples everywhere turn to each other and kiss." ©elsp 2025 #poem #poetry #fibonacci #poetrycommunity #afib

A big dome for #MushroomMonday

Peeling Back the Curtain on Big Plastic's False Solutions ->Inside Climate News | #plastic | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

The future might really be fungal. Growing evidence that fungus can use ionising radiation as a food source using melanin in a process similar to photosynthesis www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I wouldn't call it tool use unless the wolf actually made the crab pot and I'll die on that hill 🙂 Pretty cool video though www.popsci.com/environment/...

In case you've ever wondered www.livescience.com/animals/what...