Day: November 8, 2021 | WW3 Survival

Are you tired of your food going towaste? Freeze drying could be your answer. There are a few different ways of preserving food. First, you can dehydrate. A dehydrator uses heat to slowly dry out food. The heat ends up destroying a lotof the foods’ nutritional value and shrinks and toughens the food. And most foods can’t even be dehydrated, like soup, cheese and ice cream. You can also try home canning. Canning also uses heat which,once again, destroys nutrition. Canning is hot, messy and requires careful attention to detail.…

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How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction | Lauren Sallan

November 8, 2021November 7, 2021 TaathHow to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction | Lauren Sallan0 comment

Congratulations. By being here,listening, alive,a member of a growing species,you are one of history’sgreatest winners –the culmination of a success storyfour billion years in the making. You are life’s one percent. The losers,the 99 percent of specieswho have ever lived,are dead –killed by fire, flood, asteroids,predation, starvation, ice, heatand the cold math of natural selection. Your ancestors,back to the earliest fishes,overcame all these challenges. You are here becauseof golden opportunitiesmade possible by mass extinction. It’s true. The same is trueof your co-winners and relatives. The 34,000 kinds of fishes. How…