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India tree planter tells BBC his story. But what species?
Photoessay on Irish farm, begorrah!
The next rubber boom?
A “modern-day Johnny Appleseed for ash trees.”
Qur’anic Botanical Garden established in Qatar.
Egyptians regret pig cull.
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Against Monopoly
Dean Baker writes frequently about patents and copyrights but his blog is billed as “Beat the Press” because he picks up on factual errors in discussions of public policy, mainly in the main stream media. Today he writes about Corruption in Drug Research: The Fruits of Patent Protection link here. Most of us agree [...]
Against Monopoly
Oh Boy. You can see and hear it here: link here
Does it scare you or make you mad?
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Björn Brembs
Back in Europe, en route to Berlin.” (at Frankfurt International Airport, Hesse, Germany)
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Dr Shock MD PhD
BBC’s Darwin season featured ‘Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life’ – an animation which illustrates an idea that Darwin and his contemporaries used to explain the evolutionary links between living things. This amazing animation was narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
You can read the transcript on Scitechbits, thanks Scitechbits.
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
India tree planter tells BBC his story. But what species?
Photoessay on Irish farm, begorrah!
The next rubber boom?
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Against Monopoly
Courthouse News reports on a disturbing development –
(CN) – In a decision that could have a profound effect on the future of patent law for medical treatments, the Federal Circuit ruled a test for determining the proper dosage of drugs to treat autoimmune disease is patentable under federal law.
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Against Monopoly
An elaborated response to Paul Krugman. And thanks to the commentators on the original post for helping me clarify my thinking about this.
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Mystery Rays from Outer Space
A new technique called optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) provides amazing images of tumors (especially their blood vessels) in situ.
“(a) OFDI images of representative control and treated tumors 5 d after initiation of antiangiogenic VEGFR-2. The lymphatic
vascular networks are also presented (blue) for both tumors. (b) Quantification of tumor volume and [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Pickling everything. Japanese edition.
Mapping farmers’ markets in the US. Idaho has zero demand for organic produce?
Domesticating the guinea pig. Cute AND good to eat.
Longer fallows mean more diverse soil microinvertebrates, better soils in French Guiana.
Archaeological remains of rice from China.
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Dr Shock MD PhD
It’s the time of year again, the time for Seasonal Affective Disorder or Winter Depression. In the beginning of this year I posted the criteria for seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
Very characteristic for SAD is that most SAD patients develop ‘atypical’ symptoms of increased fatigue, increased sleep duration and increased appetite and [...]
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Björn Brembs
No WiFi in the Meeting rooms and not enough time online to blog. Need to catch up with everything later.
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
The BBC has a story about how google saved Kenyan farmer Zack Matere’s potato crop, and helped him find customers. Must be lots more similar experiences out there involving different aspects of agrobiodiversity. And, with the high-speed undersea cable poised to go live, no doubt there will now be many more from East [...]
Mystery Rays from Outer Space
“How to avoid influenza: Gargle Daily”
Every virus that infects a vertebrate, has to be able to deal with the vertebrate immune system. The virus’s ancestors that infected vertebrates must have been able to deal with the vertebrate immune system. Those viruses that couldn’t handle an immune response are extinct.
Some [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
IUCN book Conservation for a New Era is out. Agriculture on page 160.
Ancient DNA, from the general to the particular, courtesy of pigs.
Durian and alcohol don’t mix. Damn.
New Internationalist does a number on bees. Thanks, Lubin.
The last word on the Enola bean case. At last.
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