Certain bacteria produce tiny gold nuggets by digesting toxic metals

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First thought this was an April fools story, but it is correct. However, it is a performance art demonstration involving a professor of microbiology, and as far as I am concerned performance art is tantamount to April fools jokes. Here is a bit more detail. Note the small amounts involved, and the fact that you need gold in solution to make it work. Hardly Alchemy, which is about turning base metals into gold.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kitcone...al-alchemy-produces-gold-from-toxic-chemical/
 
Sorry to bang on about this, but here is an example of the kind of thing that might get Rocketaroo's undies up on the wall of a gallery:

"'With the ****, what I am really curious about is at what stage the shame starts to build around a child,'' says Dwyer, who has long considered the project and who has often used other abject materials (bedpans, bandages, dead animals and sewerage pipes) in her art. She has also spent much time working in aged care. ''We **** communally as children or perhaps as soldiers in a state of war. Old people in nursing homes might do it publicly. It is weirdly democratic,'' she said.
''We might know about other planets, nanotechnology and incredibly complex philosophies, but when it comes down to it, we don't know anything about our ****. I am looking at how the institutions and architecture are built up around it and how our shame starts.''
ACCA's director Juliana Engberg says the centre's history of supporting difficult work ''distinguishes us from the mainstream'' and is a key reason for its existence. ''We are champions for artists.''
That is why Dwyer says exploring excrement and the act of defecating, which might initially cause revulsion, can bring valuable insights, even political motivations for change at a deep level.
Having herself participated in the communal act of defecating in the video, Dwyer says she found that ''there is a lot of shame attached to it but when you can actually do it [communally] it is quite liberating and empowering''. ''I felt I needed to go through the experience if I was going to ask other people to do it.''

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainm...private-act-20130524-2k6lz.html#ixzz3a436YKmr
 
DrDuck said:
rocketaroo said:
Hmm, took off my undies yesterday, and spotted a streak of color! Had a sniff, wasnt gold, spose it was shytrite :D
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Rocketaroo, if you can think of enough high art nonsense to go with it, you may be able to hang those undies in an art gallery somewhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_fluids_in_art
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Interactive, post modernist, scratch, and sniff?
 
DrDuck said:
Sorry to bang on about this, but here is an example of the kind of thing that might get Rocketaroo's undies up on the wall of a gallery:

"'With the *****, what I am really curious about is at what stage the shame starts to build around a child,'' says Dwyer, who has long considered the project and who has often used other abject materials (bedpans, bandages, dead animals and sewerage pipes) in her art. She has also spent much time working in aged care. ''We ***** communally as children or perhaps as soldiers in a state of war. Old people in nursing homes might do it publicly. It is weirdly democratic,'' she said.
''We might know about other planets, nanotechnology and incredibly complex philosophies, but when it comes down to it, we don't know anything about our *****. I am looking at how the institutions and architecture are built up around it and how our shame starts.''
ACCA's director Juliana Engberg says the centre's history of supporting difficult work ''distinguishes us from the mainstream'' and is a key reason for its existence. ''We are champions for artists.''
That is why Dwyer says exploring excrement and the act of defecating, which might initially cause revulsion, can bring valuable insights, even political motivations for change at a deep level.
Having herself participated in the communal act of defecating in the video, Dwyer says she found that ''there is a lot of shame attached to it but when you can actually do it [communally] it is quite liberating and empowering''. ''I felt I needed to go through the experience if I was going to ask other people to do it.''

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainm...private-act-20130524-2k6lz.html#ixzz3a436YKmr
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Thanks Doc. I was going to find that post a d add it here :D
 
That's it. I'm not reading any more of the posts on this subject. You blokes are starting to freak me out!!!!! :D
 
Cute kid, but i emphasize the word KID!!
But i doubt he was thinking " exploring excrement and the act of defecating, which might initially cause revulsion, can bring valuable insights, even political; motivations for change at a deep level".
But then again......?
 

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