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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on January 22, 2008January 22, 2008

How to tell hatched eggs

Hatched eggshells have telltale signature, could identify earliest domesticated turkeys.

Posted on January 20, 2008January 19, 2008

The phylogeny of a human disease

The Columbian Exchange included syphillis.

Posted on January 20, 2008

Farmer breeder recognized

Indian farmer shows breeders a thing or two.

Posted on January 20, 2008

The story of the St Bernard

There’s a stuffed St Bernard called Barry in a museum in Berne.

Posted on January 19, 2008

The Vanishing of the Bees

Colony Collapse Disorder gets a documentary. Maybe.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Johnny Appleseed basically set up fruit tree genebanks 200 years ago.
    2. Modern fruit tree genebanks could probably learn something from Mr Appleseed.
    3. Is there a Mr Lycheeseed, I wonder?
    4. There are probably some fruit tree collections at the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute.
    5. Saudi Arabia is betting on tree genebanks. Maybe even fruit tree genebanks.
    6. All genebanks need to share their data, according to the guy in charge of helping European genebanks share their data.
    7. Can you put a value on genebanks? Should you?

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