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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on December 9, 2007December 9, 2007

Names from the Biodiversity Heritage Library

XML SOAP names are available from the Biodiversity Heritage Library: no geeks available for comment (but I suspect this could be important).

Posted on December 3, 2007

Food choice at truck stops

Truckers want healthy foods. Yeah, right.

Posted on December 1, 2007December 1, 2007

Profile of Russian genebank

Profile of the Vavilov Institute: Nikolai Ivanovich unavailable for comment.

Posted on November 30, 2007November 30, 2007

Radio interview with “apple detective”

A man who finds “the world’s rarest species of fruit;” neither Linneaus nor BBC’s scientist available for comment.

Posted on November 29, 2007

Is it aronia or sarcasm?

Aronia berries set to take off. In Iowa. Maybe.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Cantabria is putting the Pasiega cow in the bank. Just in case.
    2. Spain’s “goat-cows” are fighting wildfires the old-fashioned way: by eating the fuel. I hope they’re in the bank too.
    3. India has made a Badri calf in a lab. Conservation meets IVF.
    4. Old apples are having a revival. Turns out forgotten apple varieties can taste pretty good. Well I never, is it that time of year already?
    5. Zimbabwe’s Mbire district celebrates seed, food and culture with a festival. What, no cows? Or apples?
    6. South Korea is looking for partners to save climate-resilient plants. A seed vault is better with friends.
    7. The marmottier can’t decide whether it’s a plum or an apricot. Botanists sympathise.
    8. In the atomic age, gardeners irradiated seeds and waited for something interesting to grow. Sometimes it did.

    Published on September 16, 2026

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