Eugene Young Where Do We Go From Here Chaos or Community?
These are not my words. These are not the words of Jeremiah Wright, nor are these the words of Malcolm X. Rather, these words represent the next sermon King was preparing to give at his home church of Ebenezer Baptist that upcoming Sunday if he was not assassinated on April 4th, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel.
I raise the title of this potential sermon, not because he had committed himself to believe America was going to hell, but rather because King saw America suffering from the self-inflicted wounds of the three evils: racism, poverty, and militarism.
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Ticks live dangerous lives, spending most of their time questing for a host across wildly different habitats and seasons. Once they encounter a reptile, bird, or a mammal like us, they become intimately connected with it and all of its bacteria and viruses for days on end. Though ticks are notorious for transmitting pathogens such as the Lyme disease bacterium, how does their immune system keep them safe from contracting pathogens themselves?
In a study published in
Cell on December 10, 2020, a research team led by UC San Francisco s Seemay Chou, PhD, provides an answer to this mystery. The work, Chou said, reveals that ticks are exquisitely constructed blood-sucking machines, with immune systems specially tailored for this unique lifestyle. Their defense strategies are carried out both inside and outside their bodies, she said, killing even our resident microbes as they feed on us.