Brave new world. I’ve read all about how easy it is to foist podcasts on an unsuspecting audience, but never had the need, until now. And even now I am pretty sure that I do not fully understand the business of making the podcast available to subscribers. But I’m told that Feedburner will do the nee...
A paper in the most recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines in detail how one weed, Amaranthus tuberculatus (waterhemp) developed resistance to a class of herbicides called protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors. PPO is the last, vital enzyme step in the pathway that l...
Start: 95.4 Last week: 90.3 This week: 89.2
Saturday 19 August: Crashed -- if you can call 100 grams below a Big Round Number crashing -- through another barrier this morning, somewhat to my surprise as I had not done anything drastic. Still and all, I’m not complaining. There’s another barrier...
Amy Smith’s Tedtalk was really stimulating, especially the wrap up -- if we were in Zambia, 300 of you would be farmers ... and 100 of you would have AIDS. But there’s something a little disturbing about her thesis.
Rewind. Amy Smith, a professor of engineering at MIT, invents stuff to help poor...
Communicatrix may be breaking new ground in the what-to-blog-if-you’ve-nothing-to-blog-about realm. Not content with that old standby of blogging the search terms people have used to find you (as I am) she’s sharing the sites she has Stumbled Upon using the fine Firefox extension of that name. Of...
