{"id":46264,"date":"2026-11-06T23:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T05:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=46264"},"modified":"2026-11-06T23:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T05:37:39","slug":"just-the-thought-to-keep-me-up-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/11\/06\/just-the-thought-to-keep-me-up-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Just The Thought To Keep Me Up At Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2593632-giant-bacteria-could-be-living-in-your-gut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Giant bacteria could be living in your gut<\/em><\/a>&#8220;, Jo Marchant, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (24 October 2026, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our gut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/topic\/microbiome\/\">microbiome<\/a> is home to trillions of microbes, but they may not all be microscopic. Giant bacteria, which can reach a centimetre in length, are generally found in niche environments, such as mangroves and fish guts. But now, microbiologists have detected signs of DNA from <em>Epulopiscium<\/em>, one of the largest known types of bacteria, in human gut microbiomes from around the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re composite creatures, you and I, but this information is more upsetting than some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;Giant bacteria could be living in your gut&#8220;, Jo Marchant, NewScientist (24 October 2026, paywall): Our gut microbiome is home to trillions of microbes, but they may not all be microscopic. Giant bacteria, which can reach a centimetre in length, are generally found in niche environments, such as mangroves \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/11\/06\/just-the-thought-to-keep-me-up-at-night\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46265,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46264\/revisions\/46265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}