Seeds of Contend / Bioassay in your own dirt
"A series of regional events combining a residency of variable duration on site, as well as a research laboratory (garage bio / grassroots biology / field biology) and production, a local awareness and a gathering of actors being usually invisibilized of the sector of activities of market gardening and agriculture and in the squats of undocumented people ".
Early preliminary efforts:
- Water with Seeds (English language)
- Hack 2 Eaux (french language)
- Bio-investigations in the field (french and English available)
- Louzaouiñ Graines de luttes 2022 (french language)
- Mind thGAP
- BioMonstration
- Hack2O
- IndieCamps
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- XavCC, Undisciplined Biohackitivist, born in 339 ppm of atmospheric CO₂
Brezhoneg gathering & meeting
Egypt XIXth dynasty (-1296/-1186)
In the medical Papyri of ancient Egypt, especially in Papyrus Berlin 3038 it has been deciphered and documented writings about the use of seeds for the "detection" of a condition, or change in quality, through human urine. For example, in the case of the first recorded pregnancy test was written around 1350 before the current occidental calendar :
“Barley [and] wheat, let the woman water [them] with her urine every day with dates [and] the sand, in two bags. If they [both] grow, she will bear. If the barley grows, it means a male child. If the wheat grows, it means a female child. If both do not grow, she will not bear at all”
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References
- John Francis Nunn, Ancient Egyptian Medicine. University of Oklahoma Press, 2002, p. 36-38. Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/ancientegyptianm0000nunn/page/36/mode/2up
- Urine pregnancy tests from antiquity to the present, J. Burstein , G D Braunstein. PMID: 9363261 − The Long Gestation of the Modern Home Pregnancy Test, Glenn D Braunstein, Clinical Chemistry Chemistry, Volume 60, Issue 1, 1 January 2014, Pages 18–21, https://doi.org/10.1373/clinchem.2013.202655
