Meet the electric life forms that live on pure energy (Image: Derek Lovley/SPL) By Catherine Brahic Geobacter – a current favourite STICK an electrode in the ground, pump electrons down it, and they will come: living cells that eat electricity. We have known bacteria to survive on a variety of energy sources, but none as weird as this. Think of Frankenstein’s monster, brought to life by galvanic energy, except these “electric bacteria” are very real and are popping up all over the place. Unlike any other living thing on Earth, electric bacteria use energy in its purest form – naked electricity in the shape of electrons harvested from rocks and metals. Advertisement That should not come as a complete surprise, says Kenneth Nealson at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. “Life’s clever. In the process, cells make ATP, a molecule that acts as an energy storage unit for almost all living things. “That’s the way we make all our energy and it’s the same for every organism on this planet,” says Nealson. “This is huge. Wire in the mud
Bridge • The Center for MichiganAn educational system doomed to keeping failing It’s way past time to start thinking seriously – very seriously — about what we’re going to do about Michigan schools. That is, if we want to have any serious hope of a better future. The utter silliness and dabbling our leaders have been guilty of in recent years just won’t hack it. In the last two months, two powerful reports have provided clinical details behind the rolling debacle that is Michigan’s school performance. The Education Trust- Midwest, a leading nonpartisan education research and policy outfit, reported this spring that Michigan school performance is falling further and further behind other states. Michigan already is in the bottom 10 states for fourth-grade literacy and math and one of only a few states which posted learning losses in overall student performance in fourth-grade reading. Then last week, a report released by the U.S. Only six other states – all of them small and largely rural — showed the same kind of increases for prisons at the expense of education.
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12 Tools That'll Keep You Productive Morning, Noon & Night When I need to have a very productive day, I tell myself it's going to be easy. I'll just wake up early, grab a big cup of coffee, and then begin powering through my to-do list. Maybe I'll break for a meal, or a stretch, or a quick conversation with a coworker. But I'll truck on, energy unwavering until bedtime, where I'll promptly fall asleep for eight, wonderful, uninterrupted hours of sleep. Cool fantasy, self. So if you want to be more productive throughout the day, you're better off relegating certain activities to certain times, and devoting yourself to doing those activities at those times. And to make sure you get the right things done at the right times of day, you can lean on a plethora of different free or relatively cheap apps and tools. Below, I've collected some of the highest-rated and often-recommended productivity apps for each part of the day. Morning 1) Headspace Price: Free, with subscriptions available on iPhone, Android, Web Sold ... but not sure how to get started?