May 2014 – Page 2 – Gogwit's Blog

My Library

I’ll reblog to make your links available to my followers. Best wishes.

Just wanted to put all my novellas, with their links, into one post. I’ve gained a lot of new readers over the past few months, and I know how easy it is for older posts to get lost. You can click on each picture, and it will take you right to the Amazon page where it’s for sale. Thank you so much for your support. I would ask that if you read any of these books, please leave a review for me on Amazon. I greatly appreciate it. God bless.

My latest book is entitled, I Was There. It’s a collection of ten Bible stories written from first person perspective. To date, this is my favorite one. I love writing fiction, but there’s no real hope that it can change someone’s life. With I Was There, I believe it has the potential to help people in all areas of life…

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Astronomical Clock, Prague, Czech Republic photo via jamayne

Reblogging this for its sheer beauty, captured in this superb photograph.
Thanks!

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via Blue Pueblo, Astronomical Clock, Prague, Czech Republic photo….

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Trilogy

Like this. It addresses complexity, with simplicity. Nice.

Mind's Seat

by Susan Irene Fox

Into Being

Perfect symmetry:

leaves, feathers, webs, DNA.

Behold Your grand works!

Master Painter

Your painter’s palette

indigo mountains, snow clouds

vermillion sunsets,

golden stalks, blood red blossoms,

jade grass, sapphire waters

Embodied

We are

masterpiece, heir

intricate, spun with care,

a woven, warp-free tapestry;

Mercy

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Trouble brewing?

A fascinating and detailed accounting making an interesting and engaging read.
Thanks for sharing this.

BrownhillsBob's Brownhills Blog

Sandhill Pumping Station is a beautiful example of its kind.

About a decade ago, South Staffordshire Water historian Chris Pattison sent me some scans of 1921 documents he found in the archives relating to the Shire Oak Brewery owner, Geroge Boulter, who was expressing concerns about the creation of the Sandhills Pumping Station and borehole, and the possible effect on the well the brewery used at the top of Shire Oak Hill.

The Sandhills Pumping Station – built by the private concern of The South Staffordshire Waterworks Company in 1935 – still pumps fresh water to this day from two 400 foot deep boreholes drilled into the bunter pebble beds under Sandhills.

The brewery stood behind the Shire Oak Pub, and has been exhaustively documented by historian Clive Roberts in his wonderful book ‘Snippets of Local History in and around Shire Oak’.

I’m sure Clive will find this material interesting.

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Scientists Add Letters to DNA’s Alphabet, Raising Hope and Fear

Reality meets the X-Files. It was only a matter of time before this theoretical fancy became realisable. RNA of course uses a different base pair combination to DNA – Uracil rather than Thymine to pair with Adenine – so A-T C-G is not set in stone, neither is A-U C-G for that matter.
This research however takes the novel step of adding a new base pair combination which is successfully expressed following replication for as long as the feedstock of the synthetic novel bases is maintained.
The scene of Mulder and Scully coming across a nursery of human-Roswell alien crossbreeds will stay on the DVD though for the foreseeable future.

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via Scientists Add Letters to DNA’s Alphabet, Raising Hope and Fear – NYTimes.com.

By ANDREW POLLACK MAY 7, 2014
Scientists reported Wednesday that they had taken a significant step toward altering the fundamental alphabet of life — creating an organism with an expanded artificial genetic code in its DNA.
The accomplishment might eventually lead to organisms that can make medicines or industrial products that cells with only the natural genetic code cannot.
The scientists behind the work at the Scripps Research Institute have already formed a company to try to use the technique to develop new antibiotics, vaccines and other products, though a lot more work needs to be done before this is practical.
The work also gives some support to the concept that life can exist elsewhere in the universe using genetics different from those on Earth.
“This is the first time that you have had a living…

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