Update 10-01-2024: Grist published an article this week about Patrick Brown who seems to have become a controversial figure in climate science. His points (I will not rehash) clearly point to a predisposition / bias in scientific publishing – especially in climate change domain. If I blow through all the Grist language and positioning, I…
When, save the last 100 years or so, has agriculture focused on a single product (plant, e.g., corn or soybeans, rice or peanuts, etc.)? Probably never intentionally – remember the oft cited ‘Three Sisters’ from Native American practices. According to Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Ph.D. Administrator, Agricultural Research Service. U.S. Department of Agriculture, “in agricultural parlance, ‘The…
After reading Mark and Delia Owens (post here) work the veterinarian fences in East Africa caught my attention and I followed up everywhere I could to find a NGO working to remove / improve fencing. Null … just nothing. Finally this last week, a great piece with good stories and details about fences’ evil and…
As I engage more on Bluesky to avoid providing X my eyeballs, a great challenge caught me. List your top 20 books that have shaped your life, regardless of order. At first, it sounds really easy, then when I had to limit it to 20 – the challenge hit me full on. See everybody’s here….
Fiction readers are well familiar with unreliable narrators. Wikipedia summarizes like this: In literature, film, and other such arts, an unreliable narrator is a narrator who cannot be trusted, one whose credibility is compromised. They can be found in fiction and film, and range from children to mature characters. While unreliable narrators are almost by definition first-person narrators, arguments have been made for the existence…
This post I stumbled upon from The Guardian. The key to the post was a research paper in Frontiers in Plant Science. Here’s the Guardian’s summary that should get everybody’s attention. Streetlights left on all night cause leaves to become so tough that insects cannot eat them, threatening the food chain, a study has found….
