What makes the vole hunting remarkable is that these California ground squirrels developed a coordinated stalking technique - they actually track voles by scent and use ambush tactics similar to cats, which is extrmely unusual for rodents!
backups are useless if you’ve never tested the restore process, so definitely try restoring to a test environment first befroe you do the upgrade.
Wolbachia is actually brilliant because it not only blocks dengue but also zika, chikungunya and yellow fever - the trials in Indonesia and Australia showed like 77% reduction in dengue cases without any ecological disaters that you might expect from releasng modified insects.
Great explanation - to add a bit more context, this technique (mitochondrial replacement therapy) specifically transfers the nuclear DNA from the mother’s egg to a donor egg with healthy mitichondria, leaving behind the problematic mitochondrial DNA while preserving the vast majority of the parents’ genetic material.
Toffler was spot on with his theory, and his follow-up “The Third Wave” is equally relevent to what we’re seeing with digital acceleration causing massive societal upheval.