- Do they know it’s Christmas? Stocking-filling books for do-gooders.
 - Wonder if any of them talk about using markets to deliver nutritious food.
 - The surprising secrets of baobabs, among other plants. I thought we knew all there was to know about baobabs, what with all those factsheets.
 - The Global Nutrition Report in 12 sound-bites. No sign of baobabs.
 - Russians in a tizzy about their buckwheat. If only they’d had a factsheet.
 - Everybody in a tizzy about European olive oil. Maybe they should try the American stuff?
 - “When skunk was created the people doing it had no idea they were altering the ratios of CBD and THC — they just kept breeding the plants that gave the strongest high and threw the rest away.” Ouch. But fear not, help is at hand.
 - Restoring wild turkey populations is screwing up its subspecific structure, pissing off taxonomists no end.
 - Bolivians do not appreciate cheap Peruvian quinoa. Hipsters unavailable for comment.
 - No, LA’s wild quinoa is not going to put too much of a dent in global food shortages, nor interest many hipsters, but it’s a fun story. Too bad wasn’t mashed up with the US crop wild relatives prize-winning paper.
 - Cool crop domestication infographics.
 - Plant geneticists are from Mars.