I’ve been meaning to say something about this for a while, but there’s frustratingly little to say.
The women of the Nabweru III 2030(c) Group, to whom I loaned some money via Kiva, have made their second repayment, on schedule.
But that’s all I can say. Presumably they’re too busy running their...
It had been a long, besuited day. I escaped and, being downtown already, wandered off in search of amusement. And then, as I was walking down towards the Piazza di Sant’Ignazio, I heard music. Not standard street-busker fare, but something nostalgic, something essentially English. A brass band. P...
After three days of almost incessant rain, I got up one morning to find that one of my cacti had gone berserk.
And just as suddenly, a couple of days later, all those flowers were limp and dessicated. That set me to wondering about the synchrony of flowering in cacti. Many are pollinated by bird...
Another great sciencish headline:
No, but it’ll probably speed the evolution of resistance.
Strategy: one, engineer HIV antibodies into maize; two, feed maize to people; three, halt transmission of HIV. Which is where the reasoning stops. Step four, I would sugges...
The whole question of framing science has passed me by, mostly because I have had nothing to add. But this headline brought me up short.
Researchers Identify Genetic “Fix” for Problem in Some Sweet Corn Hybrids.
A news story from the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of...
