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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on November 28, 2007

Bringing back a wild relative

Aurochsen. Tarpans. Nazis. Wait, Nazis?

Posted on November 28, 2007

Hittite plague explained

Hittites “used infected sheep as biological weapon.”

Posted on November 28, 2007

Record-breaking white truffle

A 1.5 kg white truffle has been unearthed  near San Miniato. It is a contender for world’s largest truffle ever.

Posted on November 27, 2007

Sacred cows

India has lost half its 27 cattle breeds?

Posted on November 26, 2007

Pacific crops project

Specialty Crops for the Pacific Islands. Via PAPGREN.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault gets the Princesa de Asturias Prize for international cooperation. Time to celebrate.
    2. Celebrating Pamela Ronald and scuba rice.
    3. Celebrating Ohsoon Yun and the geography of coffee.
    4. I’ll certainly celebrate if the approach of the NATURE-FIRST project can be applied to loss of agricultural biodiversity one day.
    5. The World Bank is in a celebratory mood with regards to geospatial and Earth observation data. I’ll join them when they fund a NATURE-FIRST for crop diversity.

    Published on May 21, 2026

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