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PHOTONIC CRYSTAL PRIZE. "Light crystals clinch physics medal. US physicist Eli Yablonovitch, who first created "photonic crystals" to repel, trap and steer light, will receive the Newton Medal from the UK's Institute of Physics." Announced yesterday, and a harbinger of more to come. Worthy of a brief digression from piezoelectricity. https://lnkd.in/eTY9nZ7 View in LinkedIn

MICROBIOTA MAKE KEY HORMONES. Fifty percent of our dopamine and 100% of our serotonin are controlled by the microbiota within our bodies. https://lnkd.in/es44Vig View in LinkedIn

MICROBIOTA AND SEROTONIN. "Brain levels of serotonin, "the happy hormone", are regulated by the amount of bacteria in the gut during early life." This is done by the microbiota inducing the synthetic enzymes of the gut epithelial which make serotonin. https://lnkd.in/e4_dhH7 View in LinkedIn

MANY PEPTIDES "produced in taste buds are known to affect appetite, satiety or metabolism through actions in the brain, pancreas and other organs." This large number of peptides originating from taste cells act as neurotransmitters and neurohormones. https://lnkd.in/e9BxNzf View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT IN NATURE continues this weekend with the theme started last weekend of the interaction of the microbiome with taste receptors and that effect on satiety, food selection and health. Taste buds are the gateway to satiety of the gut. The major microbiota biomass lives in the gut. The gut-CNS axis is very active. The microbiome is known to control many host behaviors. Thus, there must be a link between the gut microbiota and taste receptors. View in LinkedIn

CLUB SURYA in London is hoping that up to 60% of its sound and lighting will be powered from the piezoeffect of the dancers generating electricity. A similar venture exists at Club Watt in Rotterdam. https://lnkd.in/euycagV View in LinkedIn

PIEZOELECTRIC TOULOUSE, France. "City officials have announced that they will be installing power-generating tiles in the sidewalks in the city center for two weeks as a test-run of using people-power to create electricity." https://lnkd.in/e6xbtb8 View in LinkedIn

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS "convert small amounts of energy from one kind to another (for example, converting light, sound, or mechanical pressure into electrical signals)." http://www.explainthatstuff.com/piezoelectricity.html View in LinkedIn

An information society is being built on the iridescent wings of butterflies. View in LinkedIn

LIGHT TRUMPS ELECTRONS in information communication. This is an immense statement with many applications. Photonic crystals are like electrical insulators for light. And it all began with the seemingly frivolous, or at least innocent, fascination by scientists going back to Newton, for iridescent colors in nature. http://mpalffy.lci.kent.edu/Optics/Presentations%202012/Photonic%20Crystals%20Libo%20Weng.pdf View in LinkedIn