My Musings

 Musings....... The world woke up on February 1st 2021 with the news that the democratically elected government of Myanmar led by the National League of Democracy (NLD) was deposed by the Tatmadaw ( Myanmar Military ).  The Tatmadaw has declared a state of emergency for a year and all power has been vested in the Commander in Chief of Defence Services Min Aung Hlang.  The military coup d’état occurred the day before Myanmar Parliament was due to swear its members elected in the elections held in November 2020.  Subsequently as we know, President Win Myint and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi were detained.  The coup was announced on the military owned Myawaddy TV station when a news presenter cited the 2008 constitution which allows the military to declare a national emergency.  As a result, Twenty four ministers and deputies were deposed, the 2020 General election results annulled and swearing in of members to the assembly was annulled.  NLD in the N...

 Musings....... Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft and a philanthropist in his new book “ How to avoid a climate disaster” gives a solution to the impending climate change disaster- Switch to synthetic meat !  Synthetic Meat  Also called lab grown meat/ in vitro meat/ cultured meat is made by growing muscle cells in a nutrient serum and encouraging them into muscle like fibres.  The same way cells grow in our body to make or regenerate ones body, under laboratory conditions, cells can be grown to make meat.  Initial few “satellite cells” can be obtained from a sample of muscle taken from a live animal.  These are stem cells that can be turned to different cells found in muscle.  Practically speaking one cell can create an infinite amount of meat !   The final tissue we get after the cell is processed in nutrient serum to form muscle cells and multiplied, is encouraged to form stripes like normal muscle.  The fibres are then attached to spong...