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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on July 16, 2007

Adding value to coffee

Civet cat crap creates celebrated cup of coffee.

Posted on July 16, 2007July 16, 2007

Date tissue culture

Man has in vitro plan for Iraqi dates.

Posted on July 15, 2007July 15, 2007

Hemp grower persecuted

A farmer who wanted to diversify into hemp is persecuted by authority.

Posted on July 13, 2007July 13, 2007

More on bovine belching

BBC News and Der Spiegel both add details to the low-gas bovines story. Still no word from Al.

Posted on July 12, 2007

Equine obesity

Improved forages make horses obese. That and too much TV.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Agriculture is bad for natural ecosystems. But great for maps, you have to admit.
    2. Greens are good for you. And this is a great roundup of the latest scholarship on brassica evolution, domestication and diversity. You’ll find most of the paper quoted in past Brainfoods.
    3. Grains are great. Especially with greens.
    4. Thank goodness for household seed banking. Especially in conjunction with the formal kind.
    5. All so we can breed a better peanut. And cut down more natural ecosystem?
    6. No, there’s community genebanks for that too…

    Published on March 13, 2026

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