Vanquishing the purple and bitten.

Dinosaur discovery? Left by one-ish, sort of. A local gator’s reminder of what life is about.©

“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.” (Lily Tomlin)

Makes real sense if you think about it.

Hollywood might be the first to admit that while lingering on past views can cause some here and now stumbles, there’s benefits, too.

Movie studio’s preference for recycling old superheroes like Power Rangers and Batman is easy to understand.

• A built-in fan base of adults who remember the original and who want to share it with their kids. (T-shirts. Toy tie-ins. Ka-ching!)
• Why bother thinking up new unproven characters or plots that may not pay off? Besides organized protests can easily be avoided by blaming any character’s flaws or not politically correct backstories on previous writers.
• Nostalgia sells in difficult times. Comfortable. Safe.

But resurrection of things long-buried can have dangers.

If anyone ever considers a revival of Barney (not the bumbling Mayberry deputy, but that annoying purple dinosaur with his mind worm theme song),  get out the pitch forks! Petitions! Social media rants! There is no forgiveness.

“Scientists retrieve 80-million-year-old dinosaur protein” (It better not be a lumpy singing one.)

Please not another purple reign. Once smitten sufficient.

May be tarred and gone, but his song lingers on.(Ballista/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Swat alert as the weather warms:

Don’t forget the mosquito repellant. Zero Zika would be so welcomed.

UTMB researchers are making progress in understanding how the Zika virus damages infants’ brain development.

• There are two main types of the Zika virus: African and Asian. It appears only the Asian one has been linked with microcephaly.
• “We discovered that the Asian lineage Zika virus halted the proliferation of brain stem cells and hindered their ability to develop into brain nerve cells,’ said Ping Wu, senior author on the study and UTMB professor in the Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology.”

Read more: “Scientists uncover how Zika causes microcephaly: The findings are key to unraveling the mysteries of why Zika virus causes birth defects” (ScienceDaily)

• “Yale study identifies how Zika infects the placenta.” (MedicalXpress)

First steps towards figuring out how to stop the virus. Itching to find more as summer approaches.

Purple brain and biting buzz: with luck, forgive and forget.

Watching the rear view mirror,

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge.

Pine Gully Trail, waterway and wetlands. Home to an assortment of biters.©

 

 

 

 

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