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Learn about iron beans from a HarvestPlus video, maybe.
Learn about the tomato in Ghana, more than you might need to know if you read all the reports.
Learn how Andy Jarvis spoke truth to ex-power, about fruit data gathering project prospects.
Learn how the Africa College, based at Leeds University in the UK, is working [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
What is it with humans. They’re brilliant compared to their evolutionary counterparts but nevertheless can make very dumb mistakes, watch this video and you’ll know.
Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in “monkeynomics” shows that some [...]
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The Dutch Corpus Museum takes you into the human body and shows how our organs work. A fascinating idea and a great visualization. An excerpt from Amusing Planet:
The Corpus Museum takes you on a fantastic journey through a giant model of the human body during which you can see, feel and hear how the [...]
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Here’s the scenario: the civic authorities have decided to install a home garden somewhere in the centre of the city. This is in a country with a very conservative attitude to its food culture, where tradition runs deep (although not as deep as to recognize that several staples of the cuisine arrived as [...]
Mystery Rays from Outer Space
From A History of British Fish (William Yarrell, 1835)
I’ve talked about lamprey immune systems several times (here, here, and here). I find them fascinating because it shows both how our own immune system developed, and also shows alternate routes that can lead to a pretty good, but very different, immune [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Bioversity and NBPGR India offering course on cryopreservation.
Scientia Pro Publica #35 blog carnival is up, with bees factchecked up the wazoo.
Big long post helps understand corn domestication dates in Chaco Canyon.
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Dr Shock MD PhD
This image above shows two types of humor. One based on incongruity-resolution, the cartoon on the left. The other also based on incongruity-resolution but provoked by a nonsense cartoon on the right.
Humor of nonsense jokes and cartoons is a different sense of humor according to recent research. Not in the sense of [...]
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Elizabeth Kearney, the President of the National Society of Genetic Counselors in the US, gave me an interview this weekend, and commented on how direct-to-consumer (DTC) genomic companies should provide their customers with genetic counseling, which is a crucial part in the whole process.
As President of NSGC, Liz Kearney is responsible for leading the association [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Is biochar the answer for ag? asks the headline. No, but it might be an answer, we reply.
The Toad points us to a video on Organic Plant Breeding in Denmark.
Guess where China gets loads of its soybeans. And cotton. And nuts.
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When looking for studies on humor and neuroscience I came a cross a very nice review. In this review two studies on the use of humor patients with chronic mental illness were discussed. These two studies were done on hospitalized psychiatric patients.
In one study clowns lead sessions twice weekly with games, psychomotor [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
A blog post from Kew’s archivists on the Zambesi Expedition of 1858-1864 led me to Dr Livingstone’s papers, among which I stumbled on this wonderful letter to Joseph D. Hooker:
Hadley Green Barnet 11th July 1857
My Dear Dr Hooker
I beg to return you my hearty thanks for your note and the trouble you have [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
After he swam the North Pole, Lewis Pugh vowed never to take another cold-water dip. Then, he heard of Mt. Everest’s Lake Imja — a body of water at an altitude of 5,300 meters, entirely created by recent glacial melting — and began a journey that would teach him a radical new [...]
Silliman University Physics Blog
By Algrace Bellingan"Last July 29, 2010, GF Micro Optics Philippines Incorporated came to visit, for the very first time, Silliman University’s Physics Department. The company, who was represented by Mr. Rodolfo Aguilar (Section Head, Human Resources Management and General Affairs), and Mr. Errol Stanley Bitera (General Manager for Operations), gave a short [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
We blogged over a year ago about the re-flooding of the Iraqi marshes, but fairly briefly, and it’s great to see a long piece about this restoration process in Der Spiegel today. The slideshow which accompanies the article provides the best visual summary I’ve seen of what happened to the marshes — and [...]