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Wed. 05/25 - Don't Forget To Take Your Daily Tomato


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Why NASA is sending a bunch of brewer’s yeast up to space on Artemis 1. Plus, scientists have created genetically-edited tomatoes pumped up with vitamin D. And a COVID-19 memorial that will be purposefully burnt down on Saturday.

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    NASA plans to launch an unexpected organism to space to study cosmic radiation (Inverse)
  • BioSentinel (NASA)
  • Around the Moon with NASA's First Launch of SLS with Orion (NASA)
  • Gene-edited tomatoes could provide new source of vitamin D (Nature)
  • Scientists CRISPR'd Tomatoes to Make Them Full of Vitamin D (Gizmodo)
  • Scientists create tomatoes genetically edited to bolster vitamin D levels (The Guardian)
  • The Public Will Be Invited to Safely Burn Down a New COVID-19 Memorial (Architectural Digest)
  • Visitors 'overwhelmed' by Bedworth Covid memorial Sanctuary (BBC)
  • 'I feel your country's anger' – why the memorial to Britain's Covid dead will be set ablaze (The Guardian)
  • The Unburnable Book: Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID'S TALE (Penguin Random House, YouTube)
  • The Unburnable Book 
  • Over 1,000 Musicians Honor Taylor Hawkins with "My Hero" Cover: Watch (Consequence)
  • Jackson Bird on Twitter
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