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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on October 13, 2007

Cigarette?

The case against growing tobacco. So let’s ban it, right?

Posted on October 13, 2007

Undermining colonialism

Australian Aborigines “not nomadic.”

Posted on October 12, 2007

Magic mushrooms banned

Bad news for Dutch agrobiodiversity. Castaneda unavailable for comment.

Posted on October 12, 2007

More on submersible rice

Rice survives immersion: Man from Atlantis unavailable for comment.

Posted on October 12, 2007

Reconnecting the food chain

“Alternative food networks” are good for you. 

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank and…
    2. …Cate Blanchett.
    3. Or read about it in The Economist.
    4. Or watch a nice video.
    5. The seed banks of the National Plant Germplasm System in the USA are for farmers, not just researchers.
    6. How to get stuff out of the NPGS.
    7. Laurajean Lewis: from an NPGS genebank to CIMMYT’s.
    8. I’m sure she and Chris Mujjabi will get to know each other soon.
    9. Diane Ragone: Not all genebanks are seed banks.
    10. Not a lot of breadfruits in Belgium but, surprisingly, lots of bananas.

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