Posts for the ‘Biological sciences’ Category
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Going nuts in Kyrgyzstan. Ok, sorry, that should read growing. And something similar from Brazil.
And the bad Ug99 news just keeps on coming. When is wheat gonna catch a break?
The Campesino a Campesino Pollinator Project. I just love that title.
Study says “drought tolerant maize will greatly benefit African farmers.” Still no cure for [...]
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Kavli Science Video Contest http://www.usasciencefestival.org/2010fes…
21 hours ago
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Science and religion: would you hire this person? – http://bjoern.brembs.net/news…
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Honestly, i don't know why it should be a problem to hire a reglious person. I am a Seventh-Day Adventist and also a "creationist". But, when i had to write Darwin's theory of evolution, i [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Food sovereignty tours. I probably shouldn’t, but I like this idea.
Why it is difficult to make cheese from camel milk.
Storing sweet potatoes the indigenous way.
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Dr Shock MD PhD
The morning report held every morning before 9.00 AM in our department of psychiatry is usually a pleasant and informative gathering of residents, faculty and medical students. To my opinion the important purpose of the morning report is mostly education but since recent also evaluating residents, discussing calamities and social interaction. The [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Speaking of shepherds and their flocks trekking through Europe, one of this year’s Guardians of Diversity in the Mediterranean, awarded by Bioversity International and supported by COPEAM, was Jesus Garzón, founder of the NGO Transhumancia y Naturaleza to promote transhumance, the movement of flocks from winter quarters on the plains to mountain pastures [...]
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Björn Brembs
Science and art: Olafur Eliasson – http://bjoern.brembs.net/news…
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Evelyn Mathias of the League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development just posted an interesting piece on DAD-Net. Unfortunately I was not able to find a web page to link to, so I take the liberty of reproducing the post in full here.
They are good-natured, produce tasty meat, and their wool [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Frontal lobes is the shorthand for the prefrontal cortex. It’s an important part of the human brain, the conductor of the large orchestra called the brain. It’s the seat of our executive functioning. Executive function relates to abilities to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, better and best, same and [...]
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As you might be aware some journals enable immediate free online access for a fee to the publisher. This fee can amount to a large sum of money. Other publishers use a hybrid model allowing authors to choose between subscription access and author paid open access. This is an opportunity for pharmaceutical [...]
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Topography of terror – http://brightkite.com/objects…
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Taz, who describes himself on his blog as a Kenyan science writer, was at the National Museums of Kenya on the occasion of the International Day for Biodiversity, and he kindly left a comment to that effect on our short post on that subject. His own description of the event includes some great [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
One of the top 10 species described in 2009 is a yam. Yeah, I didn’t believe it either.
ILRI video on why it’s important to conserve livestock genetic diversity.
Edible Geography does the sort of deconstruction of Radical Cartography’s agricultural history maps that I was hoping to do but probably wouldn’t have been able to.
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Very detailed images of the sun.
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
One of the top 10 species described in 2009 is a yam. Yeah, I didn’t believe it either.
ILRI video on why it’s important to conserve livestock genetic diversity.
Go to Publisher to continue reading