- Words of wisdom from Anne Lamott: "Try walking around with a child who’s going, “Wow, wow! Look at that dirty dog! Look at that burned-down house! Look at that red sky!” And the child points and you look, and you see, and you start going, “Wow! Look at that huge crazy hedge! Look at that teeny little baby! Look at the scary dark cloud!” I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world – present and in awe.”
- “Do you want to know how to love God with your whole self? Prac-tice loving your neigh-bor. Do you want to know how to love your neighbor? Practice loving God. Repeat. Then do it again.” Audrey West from a Christian Century reflection on the gospel text for Oct 25.
- What were you doing at age 14?? Anika Chebrolu, 14, of Frisco, Texas, won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge (regarded as the premier middle school science competition in the United States) and $25,000 for discovering a molecule that many hope will lead to a potential cure of COVID-19, according to CBS11 Frisco, Texas. Chebrolu, a student at Independence High School, had started her project on ways to fight the seasonal flu, but like many professional scientists, her plans changed when the coronavirus pandemic hit. She says she was driven by the scope of the pandemic and the people who were suffering. In order to find her potential drug, she used multiple computer programs to identify how and where the molecule would bind to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. “I developed this molecule that can bind to a certain protein on the SARS COVID-2 virus,” Chebrolu explained. “This protein by binding to it it will stop the function of the protein… I started with a database of over 682 million compounds.” She received many good wishes and congratulations from people all over the world on Twitter, most notably from Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, Vice President of India.
- Another spectacular APOD photo.
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