Nibbles: Japan, Bananas, GMO, Bees, Squirrels, Mangroves, Climate change and indigenous people, Goji, Svalbard, Heirloom rice, Dataporn

Japan’s unemployed end up farming. Somewhat uninformed comments about the perfection of the banana. “…traditional genetic crosses outperform genetically modified crops by a wide margin.” Alice Waters takedown. Brits throw money at bees. Red squirrel missing link found through DNA fingerprinting. Red squirrel pie, anyone? Ok ok, make it grey. Mexican mangroves in trouble. “Indigenous …

Tasty rice

I’m at IRRI in the Philippines the whole week (and the next, actually, but that’s another story) for a workshop to develop a global ex situ conservation strategy for rice genetic resources. More on that later. Right now, I just wanted to show you a photo I took today during a rice variety tasting the …