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Speedy tweets matter for science, and fimbriae hairs matter for death and...
…[The German outbreak bacteria form fimbriae [pili].” Fimbriae are small tentacles that help EAEC bacteria stick to the intestinal wall. This could lead to a stronger colonization of the gut and more...
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Sproutbreak — big media cover up — 50 deaths, nearly 900 maimed with HUS and...
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”(George Santayana). (Here’s *a reminder* for those who have forgotten or do not know.) Main lessons to be taken from this short...
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Rachel Carson’s dream of a science-based agriculture may come as a surprise...
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...
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An Unlikely Fix: nitrogen fertilizer and organic agriculture
In 1898, the chemist and physicist William Crookes devoted his presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science to “a life and death question for generations to come.” At...
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Study shows soil-building benefits of manure and crop rotation, so why didn’t...
The secret to building soils is… wait for it… manure and diverse crop rotation. Underwhelmed? Researchers in Iowa (Delate et al, 2013) came to this result after conducting ten years of field research....
View ArticleOrganic Farming Reliant on Synthetic Nitrogen
A number of studies have suggested that organic farming better addresses issues related to climate change than non-organic farming. Many of the reported climate change advantages of organic farming...
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Don’t Mimic Nature on the Farm, Improve it
The Garden of Eden by Thomas Cole. Public Domain via WikiMedia. Behind many efforts to make agriculture more sustainable is the idea that our farming systems need to be more like nature. According to...
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Biological Pest Control Basics
Lady beetle, by Scott Bauer. (Wikimedia Commons) Managing pests is an important part of cultivating plants whether you are tending a small garden in your yard or several fields of crops. Insect...
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GMOs and Patents: Part 3 – Lawsuits for inadvertent contamination
This is the third and final post in a series examining the topic of GMOs and patents. The first post provided an overview on the topic of patents and described the concept of “terminator genes”. The...
View ArticleOxfam should get serious about malnutrition: Africa needs roads and nitrates
A recent UK Times opinion piece by rational optimist Matt Ridley has really hit the nail of the head about food security, linking together many issues that are repeatedly tackled at this website. The...
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