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Category: History

Posted on June 26, 2007June 26, 2007

The roots of Darfur

The world is waking up to the fact that competition for an eroding natural resources base is at least a contributing factors to the tensions of Darfur, whose tragic results then further exacerbate the problem in vicious positive feedback. But Jonathan Robinson said so some years back (via ADE). What took so long?

Posted on June 26, 2007

When’s lunch?

The Food Timeline.

Posted on June 22, 2007

Potholes on the Tequila Trail

Tequila vs maize in the homeland of both.

Posted on June 11, 2007June 11, 2007

Pharaonic eats

Ancient Egyptian cooking.

Posted on June 8, 2007

Baguette to the future

A history of french bread.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Africa needs good forest seeds.
    2. And genetic monitoring of the resulting plantings, probably.
    3. The Caribbean also wants quality seed, and thinks a mobile seed bank is the way to get it.
    4. The only mobile things about New Zeland’s genebank are its collectors.
    5. A very mobile donation to the UK’s vegetable genebank.
    6. Nothing very mobile about Slow Beans 2025, but that’s the point.
    7. The long journey of honeysuckle.

    Published on January 20, 2026

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