Hello everybody. This morning I caught a red eye flight to Atlanta, Georgia. Although this trip has been almost three months in the making, I’ve been so busy getting ready that I have not had the time to give everyone the heads-up with a blog post. (Busy making time in my research, that is. Packing took one evening.) Today through Friday, I will be at the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s 2009 International Convention, representing Biofortified and blogging about it. Let me give you a few more details.
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Earlier this year, I heard about a plant science video contest called Chlorofilms. Supported by a grant from the American Society of Plant Biologists, (ASPB) they wanted to encourage people to produce informative and entertaining plant science videos and organize the best of them on one website. Their deadline was in early March, and I was busy getting some of my videos ready to be entered when they extended the deadline to April 15th. This was good, because up until they announced the extension, there were very few videos entered in the contest. As a result, over 60 videos were entered for their first contest! This morning, I received a press release from Chlorofilms – They have chosen their winners and I’m counted among them!
Continue reading… The April Fools joke that fooled an OpEd “News” contributor last week, has admittedly been started by GM Watch.
They also noticed my post:
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While skimming a section on “GMOs in the G20 Agenda”, I found a proliferation of ellipses (…) in quotes. One in particular stuck out to me:
Applying our lesson from before, I did a search for that quote to find out what was removed. It seemed dubious because I have never heard of anyone claiming that we do not need any regulation of GE crops. All searches traced to an article reproduced in multiple locations, such as on GMWatch.eu. Titled GM may be on the agenda at the G20 summit, The Times, by Mark Handerson/Henderson (depending on which reproduced article you look at). But there is no such article at The Times Online by their science editor, Mark Henderson. So I immediately emailed Stephen Lendman to find out what was going on. While I was waiting for my response, I actually read through the article and it hit me. This was an April Fools joke!
Continue reading… So last week I said to my spouse Ariela, ‘which would be funnier, if the Biofortified Blog got bought out by Monsanto, or instead, taken over by Greenpeace?’ “Oh, Greenpeace. Definitely!” Plus given that I just heard that Monsanto already has a blog, it wouldn’t quite be as funny. So a little creative photoshopping later and a couple post ideas in my brain I set the stage for a little April Fools prank on our readers, and my fellow bloggers, too. Biofortified By Greenpeace! I looked for famous dead people with common enough sounding names, and decided on William Harvey, born on April 1st, 1578. This physician also died in 1657, and left a few quotes lying around the literature, one of which I used in a post. Then, after coming up with a believable sounding title, Director of Global GMO policy, it was time to write a little something to get people riled up.
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