The roses in my backyard are starting to bloom

#melbourne #gardeningau #GardeningAustralia #bloomscrolling

A #Melbourne council is offering Rubbish Dating, speed dating while picking up trash. Not sure if this is an amazing or terrible idea hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au/Communit…

There’s a community garden that also sometimes offers Weed Dating, speed dating while pulling out weeds

Rubbish Dating

Speed dating with a trashy twist!

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Took the kids to Melbourne Museum today to see 'Relics', a temporary exhibition depicting a post-apocalyptic world where LEGO minifigs have risen from the debris to craft new civilisations in discarded human artefacts.

I have to say that this repurposed old Space Invaders cab certainly caught my eye.

#lego #retrogaming #videogames #arcadegames #museum #melbourne

As we (humans) get to grips with how to scale up #hydrogen as an energy source (and for energy storage) and as part replacement for #fossilfuels, this new research (once again) shows that #microbes have beaten us to it and evolved their own solutions for energy - in this case using hydrogen power.

This new research in Nature Microbiology explores how hydrogen in seawater supports growth of multiple and diverse #bacterial species.

Fof those (like me) in #Melbourne , you may be interested that the research also includes study of this process within #PortPhillipBay sediments.

Learn more on:

nature.com/articles/s41564-023…

#microbiology #bacteria #ecology #MicrobialEcology

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