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Pamela Ronald on 10 March 2012
From Tomorrow's Table
The New Earth Archive is a resource network of powerful, inspiring books on climate change, sustainability, social justice, and human nature.The students ask you to vote for up to 15 of your favorite books.
So pleased, Tomorrow’s Table made the list!
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/808430/neweartharchive-ballot
Whoie Earth Discipline, by Stewart Brand is also on the list and so are many other great books.
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Frank N. Foode™ on 7 March 2012
Hi everyone, Frank N. Foode™ here. For the past few years, we at Biofortified have usually had an Editor present at the Maize Genetics Conference each year. (Even when it was in Italy!) And I’ve been there, too – meeting and greeting. But next week when the 2012 Maize Meeting happens in Portland, Oregon, none of our editorial posse will be able to attend. But wait – Biofortified will still be there – in poster form! 
We have arranged for a courier who will bring our poster to the conference for all to see, but can someone grant this ear of 
corn a little favor? It would be great if one of you who is attending the conference could stick around during the poster sessions to say a thing or two about the blog and what we do. Any takers? Please let us know in the comments or drop us a note on our contact page!
And maybe if the right person comes along, I may be able to join you for the conference. You’ll be famous by association! 
Hope to hear from you!
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Karl Haro von Mogel on 29 February 2012
Recently, we received a message from an enterprising Floridian who wants to help people identify every plant they come across – with nothing more than a smartphone and a camera – and an application that he is building. His name is Steve Bowen, and he is trying to raise money for his smartphone app, called iBoPlanet™. He explains it in detail with a video on his Kickstarter fundraising page. The basic idea is that if you had a plant you wanted to identify and learn more about – all you would need to do is take a photograph of the leaves and iBoPlanet will match it to its database of plants and tell you the name, species, and some nutritional or environmental details about it. Add in the ability to tag your plant find with your location via GPS and see other people’s finds, and the plant-oriented folks out there might find this useful for research, ecology, and for educational purposes!
Being a plant-oriented person myself, I was intrigued, and so I asked Steve some questions about his project. Having taken a floristics course while an undergrad at UC Davis, I know how difficult it can be to key out and identify plant species, and that process often involves the use of flowers. We had a good conversation about it, which I shall present to everyone here to read and consider:
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Misuse Of A Vietnam Era Tragedy
Mark Twain once said, “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” There was a perfect example of that last month. The Center for Food Safety (CFS) spread the term, “Agent Orange Corn” for Dow AgroSciences’ new biotech corn hybrids that are working their way through the regulatory process. These hybrids have been modified to be more resistant to 2,4-D, an herbicide that was introduced in 1948. This is being cast as a return to the use of Agent Orange and that is completely untrue. There is a lot of interesting detail behind this, but the CFS moniker for the corn is a classic case of information twisting – twisting in a way that is intentionally misleading. The reason that the term “Agent Orange Corn” is inaccurate can be discovered in a 1-minute Wikipedia search, but this did not prevent a host of of bloggers, environmental and Organic organizations, and even “news outlets” from uncritically passing along the disinformation.
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