Scientists have developed a breakthrough “superfood” for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in pollen. In controlled trials, colonies fed this specially designed diet produced up to 15 times more young, showing a dramatic boost in reproduction and overall health. As climate change and modern agriculture reduce the availability of natural pollen, this innovation could offer a practical way to support struggling bee populations.

Using CRISPR-Cas9, scientists engineered a yeast to produce the nutrient feed. Farmers could have it in two years.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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      38 minutes ago

      wealth caps

      world wide…

      Yeah, it will be hard for the rich to accept that, but its better and easier than switching to a completely different system like communism.

      Just continue with everything the same, with a whole bunch of tax brackets, but after 10 million dollar networth is reached, 100% of your income goes to taxes until you’re below the threshold again.

      This is a fairly simple rule to implement with huge consequences. Nobody can become a billionaire anymore. Nobody can hoard wealth, wealth will spread to the poor now as well, feeding a middle class that was starved, to become the biggest group

      Governments now get a huge income stream that they can use for free education, free housing, free healthcare, universal basic income.

      Since nobody can become insanely rich anymore, you will have less people push for the get rich quick schemes. Companies will cheat way less because why? It won’t get you any extra income if you hit the limit already, so why would you? Nobody is insanely rich, so nobody is insanely powerful either, so no more trumps, no more musks. Greed will actually stop if you put a hard limit on how much you can be worth.

      Prices of goods would go down to normal again. Can’t own a 100M dollar home if your max worth is 10M. A family of 2 could potentially own a 20M home, but they would have no money left for anything else, like food. Art will once again be priced normally and most art can return to the museums for everyone to enjoy.

      Big-ass billion dollar company? Well, that requires at least 100 share holders, but they would not be able to own anything besides that company because again, hard caps. Company shares rise? Great! Now some of your shares will go to the government because hard caps. You don’t want to lose money just because the shares go down, so you will likely share your shares over multiple companies. So you’ll end up with more smaller companies with many many more owners and shareholders. No more single venture capital company that can buy up companies to then shred them out.

      I could go on for a while, but you get the picture.

      I would say that 10M is much, still, I would even go for a cap on 5M.

    • D_C@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      12 days ago

      It’s a bit extreme, but I say we kill all billionaires and then fairly redistribute their cash and see what happens.
      If there’s no real change in greed then kill the top 0.1% of wealth hoarders and see what happens.

      At some point the greed will have to stop.

    • azureskypirate@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Bioengineer some humans to not be greedy.

      Some humans because you can opt out, or you can choose it for your designer baby. Then there is a control and an experimental group.

      The mad scientist in me is dying to see whether behaviors with moral connotations (greed) confer an advantage for survival.