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Nibbles: Radishes, Fungi, Genomics, Bagel, Eels, Barack Hussein, Pomegranate

by Luigi Guarino on November 21, 2008

  • Vavilov does radishes.
  • “How would you describe the smell and taste of a fresh white truffle?“
  • “The gene … is in an identity crisis.”
  • “The basic roll-with-a-hole concept is centuries old.”
  • “He slid her gently into a nylon sack and hung her from a scale on which she clocked two kilograms, then slid her out and into the V of a varnished plywood measuring board, where she lay quietly, like a metre-long slab of tenderloin.”
  • “Activists” buttonhole Obama.
  • The Afghan pomegranate to hit supermarket shelves.
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  • “It seems that bananas, like Jews, are extremely perishable.” This I have to read.
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Featured Comment: May 21, 2012

Tim Robinson updates us on livestock data at FAO:

…We had, of course, been working on the collection of the underlying livestock statistics, and the spatial modelling to produce the maps, for many years prior to them being published on the FAO website … but that is all quickly forgotten when they are re-distributed by a third party.

For your information, we have been beavering away since then, collecting more recent and detailed sub-national livestock statistics and disaggregating these using a slightly modified modelling approach, and 1 km multi-temporal, Fourier-processed MODIS imagery from the University of Oxford…

Global datasets coming soon, apparently. We’ll keep you posted.

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