Friday, July 31, 2015

Global Warming Leads to War: France Versus Switzerland

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Conflict over scarce resources often gets violent: think about the Westerns with the cattlemen versus the homesteaders or the sheep ranchers...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Discrimination in Colleges

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This Post piece goes into the reality of discrimination on the basis of gender in private colleges. "Given that girls generally out...

GMO Soybeans for Everyone

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One of the big accusations against industrial agriculture is the fact that patented seeds must be purchased each year from the seed company....
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Dairy and Efficiency and Meat

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Nathanael Johnson at Grist has a piece on how to make meat greener.   The answer: be efficient--two quotes. The average dairy cow in Ca...

How To Make Something From Nothing: Feed Salmon

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"As long as we are talking about fish farming, we should note that a genetically engineered salmon can produce a pound of fish for ever...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Rural Utilities Service Gets Dinged

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Politico has a long piece detailing problems with RUS implementation of subsidies for rural broadband. I'd note the absence of USDA m...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

A Quote on Todo

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From a discussion of historians storage of data on hard drives, etc.: I once looked at my working directories saved from a previous machin...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Wasting Food

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Grist has the John Oliver video on the subject--as usual quite funny.   There's an interesting bit with a farmer at a farmers market n...
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Misleading Post Title at Technology Review

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Why do I say this title, Robotic Surgery Linked To 144 Deaths Since 2000 is misleading? Because it turns out that if the surgical pati...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Mom Is Rolling in Her Grave--Egg Prices

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I guess it was standard in the 30's-50's for the farm wife to handle chickens, while her spouse did the "farming".  My fam...