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New Earth Archive – The New Earth Archive Booklist.
Raoul and I are honored that Tomorrow's Table was selected as one the top 25 powerful and influential books of 2012 that educate, inspire, and drive change
Each year they identify 100 powerful and influential books on topics like climate…
More productive, sustainable and environmentally friendly agriculture will require ideas and practices from many different agricultural traditions. The polarised debate over GM - exemplified by measures like California's Proposition 37, which would require GM food to be labelled as such - does…
Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> A Tale of Two Sciences.
Richmond Bay Campus Biosciences Address: Jay Keasling - YouTube.
On genetically modified food debate, experts see double standard - latimes.com.
Scientists defend safety of genetically modified foods - latimes.com.
"The tactics of the Dr. Oz show fall short of even the lowest standards of media and medical ethics."
via Letter to Dr. Oz Show Producers by Bruce Chassy, PhD | Academics Review.
The use of poor information to promote an initiative aimed at creating an informed consumer is a defining flaw of the Proposition 37 campaign.
via Hiltzik: Junk science and Proposition 37 - latimes.com.
Are GMO foods safe? Opponents are skewing the science to scare people. - Slate Magazine.
The ‘Frankenfoods’ debate is coming to your dinner table. Just last month, a mini-war developed in Europe, when the European Union’s chief scientist, renowned biologist Anne Glover, said that foods made through genetic engineering, such as soy beans—about 80 percent of US grown soybeans have…
Recently, a number of very informative article about global food security, genetically engineered crops and the CA labeling initiative have been published. Here I provide links to a few:
Food Crises and Technological Phobia « Biofortified.
GMO Crops: To Label Or Not To Label…
Find out more about the man behind the funding for the California Proposition 37 labeling initiative.
"Many of Mercola's articles make unsubstantiated claims and clash with those of leading medical and public health organizations. For example, he opposes immunization [4] and fluoridation [5], and…
Endorsement: Prop. 37 is a sour plan for food labeling - Endorsements - The Sacramento Bee.
The Top American Science Questions: 2012
"Whenever the people are well-informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government."
Science now affects every aspect of life and is an increasingly important topic in national policymaking.
ScienceDebate.org invited thousands…
ScienceDebate 2012 | Obama, Romney Answer Top American Science Questions.
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering series on Sustainable Agriculture and modern biotechnology #KSLA2012 with tweets · KamounLab · Storify.
A story by Guest Blogger Kay Watt
Rice steamed in the husk and left to dry, then threshed is one of the subtle specialties of the region.
In Panama the rainy season lasts most of the year. Rivers flood, runoff pours down hillsides, and the red clay roads become impassable.…
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What Is Life? A 21st Century Perspective | Conversation | Edge.
In February 1943 one of the most distinguished scientists of the 20th Century, Erwin Schrödinger, delivered a seminal lecture, entitled 'What is Life?', under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, in Trinity…
Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software - NYTimes.com.
CultureLab: Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter.
Hey women scientists, does U.S. Swim Coach McKeever's story sound familiar? Don’t Call Her a Pioneer
Love this story
Pinnacle for U.S. Swim Coach McKeever, but Don’t Call Her a Pioneer - NYTimes.com.
Many women scientists could tell a similar one, I think.
ScienceDebate 2012 | The Questions.
"Whenever the people are well-informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government."
Science now affects every aspect of life and is an increasingly important topic in national policymaking.
ScienceDebate.org invited thousands of…
Journalist Kevin Kloor discusses the spread of disinformation about GMOs The latest, most egregious example is a report with an Orwellian title, “GMO Myths and Truths”
via Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Look Beyond the Scientific Veneer of a GMO Report.
He makes a plea…
The History of Sake: Takamine and Today (with tweets) · pcronald · Storify.
F. Cunningham gave a great talk today at the ASM 2012 meeting on the discovery of provitamin A synthesis, Vitamin A deficiency and the creation of Golden Rice. Read my twitter stream here.
New study concludes" "The western bean cutworm is neither a 'new plant pest' nor 'caused by GE corn' as stated by Greenpeace."
GM crops good for environment, study finds | Environment | The Guardian.
Over the past 16 years, vast plantings of transgenic crops producing insecticidal proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have helped to control several major insect pests and reduce the need for insecticide sprays. Today, a report in Nature shows that…
#GMOFAQ: Transferring genes from one species to another is neither unnatural nor dangerous