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A Strange System: Food: Too Corny

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Too Corny Corn is a wonderful vegetable. Admittedly, the stuff we consider corn is actually maize, but I’m not here to argue semantics. The kernel of maize is a mature ovary of fruit fused with a seed coat. Corn can be eaten raw, cooked, or ground into flour for bread. Good stuff this corn. Perhaps that is [...]

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New Series: A Strange System: Food: The Stage is Set

Posted in science, tagged africa, Agribusiness, agriculture, Animal, Animal Vegetable Miracle, Animals, anthropology, Archeology, Arlo Guthrie, Astronomy, Atoms, australia, Barbara Kingsolver, biochemistry, Bioengineering, biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, bioterrorism, Botany, Brazil, Business, Cancer, Carbion dioxide, Cells, chemicals, chemistry, Climate Change, climbing, Conservation, Cooking, Corporate Ethics, Corporations, Darwin, Disaster, DNA, Domestication, Earthquake, Eat, ecology, Economics, environment, Eric Schlosser, Ethics. Bioethics, evolution, Factory Farming, farming, Farms, Fast Food Nation, Fetilizer, Food, Frances Moore Lappe, Future, Genes, genetics, Global, Global Warming, God, hiking, History, human, indonesia, java, Local, Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed, Meat, medicine, Michael Pollan, Miracle, molecules, Monsanto, Music, NASA, Nature, Nobel, Nobel Prize, Ocean, Organic, Pacific, Paleontology, park, Pesticides, Photography, Physics, Politics, Pollan, Population, Rainforest, Red Cross, Restaurant, Ring of Fire, science, Scientists, Seed, Snake, Socialism, Soul, Space, Spirituality, Stars, Telescope, Telomeres, terrorism, The Omnivore's Dilemma, United Nations, Vandana Shiva, Vegetable, War, weapons, Wildlife, zoology on October 18, 2009 | 7 Comments »

It has been a while since my last official series on this blog. I have been reading several books and watching several films on this subject. Food is an important facet of our existence, for obvious reasons. And yet, for some strange reason, few of us know from where the things we put into our [...]

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Science and Soul: Earthquakes

Posted in science, tagged africa, Animals, anthropology, Archeology, Arlo Guthrie, Astronomy, Atoms, australia, biochemistry, Bioengineering, biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, bioterrorism, Brazil, Cancer, Carbion dioxide, Cells, chemicals, chemistry, Climate Change, climbing, Conservation, Darwin, Disaster, DNA, Earthquake, ecology, environment, evolution, Genes, genetics, Global, Global Warming, God, hiking, History, human, indonesia, java, medicine, molecules, Music, NASA, Nature, Nobel, Nobel Prize, Ocean, Pacific, Paleontology, park, Photography, Physics, Rainforest, Red Cross, Ring of Fire, science, Scientists, Snake, Soul, Space, Spirituality, Stars, Telescope, Telomeres, terrorism, United Nations, War, weapons, Wildlife, zoology on October 11, 2009 | 5 Comments »

This year’s Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to three Americans for their discovery of the importance of telomerase in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer. Elizabeth H. Blackburn of UC San Francisco, Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Jack W. [...]

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Science and Soul: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Posted in science, tagged africa, Animals, anthropology, Archeology, Astronomy, Atoms, australia, biochemistry, Bioengineering, biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, bioterrorism, Brazil, chemicals, chemistry, climbing, Conservation, Darwin, DNA, ecology, environment, evolution, Genes, genetics, Global, God, hiking, History, human, medicine, molecules, Music, NASA, Nature, Paleontology, park, Photography, Physics, Rainforest, science, Scientists, Soul, Space, Spirituality, Stars, Telescope, terrorism, War, weapons, Wildlife, zoology on October 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Science News in Brief Even though an ancient human-like creature, Ardipithecus ramidus, that may be a direct ancestor to our species was discovered in 1992 in Ethiopia, only now have scientists announced its huge potential significance. The fossils are 4.4 million years old and could show how we evolved from a common ancestor we have with [...]

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