May 2013
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“Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) released a new report exposing the...”
– Center for Food Safety | News Room | CFS Releases Best Public Relations Money Can Buy: A Guide to Food Industry Front Groups
“Let us suppose a wheat farm in western Kansas is abandoned, not an unusual event...”
– Jack Harlan from Crops and Man
Do not call something a weed in front of a crop evolution expert you will get clowned! (via goodaesthetic)
Weeds, like Homo sapiens, are a human construct.
Me on 'International Waters' Podcast →
robhuebel:
This podcast is a gameshow where Americans show Brits how dumb they are…
They Brits, or they Americans? Ambiguities like this one annoy the hell out of me. So lazy.
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“The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and...”
– Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown - Telegraph
Too, too perfect.
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“This is the kind of crap troubled teenage girls write in diaries .. not publish...”
– Tit for (she-wolf) tat, mathematics & the rigors of rejecting & drawing conclusions
What kind of crap though did she write? You’ll have to visit to see.
alandistro:
Adele… another victim of the loudness wars. The top track is “Rolling in the Deep” from the commercial CD/iTunes master of 21, the bottom track is from an audiophile reissue.
As you’ll see, when you turn the massively over-compressed master down to match the same volume as the reissue, the audio on the commercial release is hard-limited and has all the dynamics/life choked out of...
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“MUNGER: We’re basically so old-fashioned that we’re boringly trite. We think you...”
– How To Be Happy
Pontifical Academy of Sciences report on climate... →
climateadaptation:
The Vatican’s Academy of Sciences published a report titled, “Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene.” It has a special focus on climate change impacts on human’s main source of fresh drinking water supplies - mountain glaciers.
I found it interesting that the report begins with a defense of climate science and a response to common misconceptions. I think this is the...
I'm a baker, not a fryer - Another Blasted Weblog →
Back before there were blogs (honest; I promise this is true) my little company website had a kind of diary of newsletters, updated roughly once a month, and delivered by hard-coded HTML tables. It looked, I fancied, a little like an index card file 1 with little tabs at the top for the various dates, and some fancy backgrounds in the cells that showed you which month you were looking at. I was...
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Mitigation with magic →
One thing that has always puzzled me about mitigation discussion is how agriculture is treated. It’s usually included, but mainly in the role of sequestering carbon in the soil, or reducing nitrous oxide and methane emissions. Not that these aren’t worthwhile, but I think this emphasis tends to miss a more fundamental role — demand for agricultural land drives much of...
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“I’d like to see much more crop diversity promoted by policy, especially in a...”
– Biotech Crop Adoption Around the World and a Statement about GM Activism | Big Picture Agriculture
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“I’m just home from a visit to New York City, where I attended a conference on...”
– John T. Edge shares his thoughts on the Food and Immigrant Life conference.
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“[I]sn’t abundance better than scarcity? … If this is the food movement, it...”
– Rachel Laudan calls it: Laugh or Cry? Pollan and Moss Face Up to a Challenge.
“And as long as we’re completely off topic, I think we can safely assume...”
– The Online Photographer: The War Between Autocorrect and Spellcheck (OT)
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“According to Laborde, although both proposals stop short of providing direct...”
– An interview with IFPRI Senior Research Fellow David Laborde, on The Hidden Costs of US and EU Farm Subsidies.
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European Commission to criminalize nearly all... →
People, please. this is not new. It is the current state of affairs. In essence, the EU is refusing to change anything.
“Bussmann’s work to develop crops from Plukenetia species seems to go beyond the...”
– Amazon plant discovery could yield green cash crop : Nature News & Comment (via nybg)
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“Rich bought several flats of the berries and pickled them using a simple brine...”
– Strawberries Still Green? You’re on Trend! | Food & Think
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WatchFacing Climate Change: Potato Farmers
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ActionAid: Food Used to Fuel Cars in G8 Nations... →
Just that.
April 2013
93 posts
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It’s Time for the Religious to Do Some Due... →
Good piece on the backstory to the recent stuff about glyphosate being responsible for everything from acne to all zoonoses. Of course people need to develop their own BS detectors, but if they trust sources who haven’t developed theirs, we’re all in trouble.
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