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9brandon

  1. The Scientific Search for the Essence of a Tasty Tomato ff.im/-XiyfS
  2. Politics of the Plate: The Price of Tomatoes is.gd/vuLxYp
  3. @riverdaughter @natashachart @clarajeffery Seriously. Greatest medical advance of the 20th century, crumbling with nothing to replace it.
  4. @NatashaChart @clarajeffery Not quite duh! Impt diff b/t fueling drug resistance & increasing evolvability itself.
  5. Antibiotic Overuse May Increase Microbial Evolution Rates ff.im/-Xekzz
  6. @TheTakeaway Research for upcoming story on new tomato research. Will link to the radio piece when it comes out.
  7. @TheTakeaway Aha! It was a Firefox issue. Thank you.
  8. +1 for @medskep's word for a word to describe the paralysis caused by too-long to-do lists: listlistness.
  9. @TheTakeaway Link to Estabrook/Klee talk on tomatoes doesn't work in iTunes -- is there an alternative to thetakeaway.org/2011/jul/12/ad… ?
  10. Needed: A word to describe the paralysis caused by too-long to-do lists #neologue #language @lexicalgaps
  11. @geneticmaize @keithkloor @calestous Words to live by.
  12. @keithkloor @calestous @geneticmaize (Pulls foot from mouth, learns lesson abt finishing before talking) Which is exactly what Keith said.
  13. @keithkloor @calestous @geneticmaize Emma Rosi-Marshall example from the Waltz article.
  14. @keithkloor @calestous @geneticmaize Physically harming the crops (or the researchers) definitely not OK. But it goes both ways -- note the
  15. @matthewherper That's a really interesting proposition. Will ask around when I'm reporting on GM in the future.
  16. @keithkloor @calestous @geneticmaize superweed evolution. It's not a fault of GM per se -- it's a fault of efficiency-worship & bad planning
  17. @keithkloor @calestous @geneticmaize FWIW, while I don't know the particulars of that report, it's clear that glyphosate overuse led to
  18. @keithkloor @calestous @geneticmaize Absolutely. NGOs/activists every bit as vulnerable to bias as industry.