What's with the cosmic dick-measuring contest?

[link:http://hopedance.org/home/awakenings/2051-lindsey-vona|This is a test]

Saying we're right, and there was a "big bang" and that's how and when it started, it'll be interesting how we settle on the "age" of the universe. We base our years on the very specific metric of how long it takes our planet to revolve around our star - a planet which didn't even exists for roughly 10 billion…

That's cute. I remember when I had my first beer.

Don't be silly, fish and tomatoes fuck in nature all the time! That is, when fish aren't getting fresh with strawberries.

Same to you.

And therein lies the rub - anyone who questions the wisdom of GMOs gets insulted, belittled and branded a "Luddite" by those in the Very Serious Scientific Community. Most well-meaning scientifically-oriented then feel the need to have to qualify their concern with a "...not to sound like a Luddite, but...," lest…

http://youtu.be/ There's a much broader environmental concern than pests rapidly evolving resistance (even though that in itself is pretty fucking huge, the implications of which no one really knows). With these monospeciated, transgenic, chemical fertilizer heavy, one-size-fits all practices, you also have to take…

All articles on the wonders of fungi need to come with an obligatory Paul Stamets clip.

What about raising soil fertility through biodiversity (by mixed farming, and rotating crops and livestock) and encouraging natural predators like birds and bats? Healthier soils boost plant vigor, which renders them more resistant to pests and diseases. Plant monocultures leech nutrients from the soil and leave…

Visiting this lady, apparently.

Hey, had never heard of that term/method/type of soil before! Thanks!

Hopefully, but those are the only two "major" media outlets that I could find that even mentioned it (and the Time article was from well over 2 years ago). Guess we'll have to wait and see.

Most of the soy, wheat, and corn that's grown in the US is used solely for feeding livestock (mainly herbivores). And by that, I mean somewhere in the 60%-70% range (some figures had corn as high as 75% at one point - [www.cias.wisc.edu]). You may be well aware of this already, but it goes to show that a good deal…

Fuck it. I don't know how many times I have to mention this here before someone catches on and covers it.

Perfect...

No article about fungi is complete without a talk from the mycelial master himself, Paul Stamets.

Yeah, the "calories in, calories out" mantra is a bit maddening, considering the metabolism isn't a closed system (i.e. the body digests different foods/nutrients differently). Matter of fact (wrote this elsewhere so just gonna quote it):

My pleasure! I really was taken aback when I read this in the second article:

Have they added to their chromosome count? Wheat went from 14 to 42 in less than 10,000 years. When einkorn was cross-bred with another wild grass to produce emmer, it jumped to 28. So, instead of mixing the 14 chromosomes from each parent, it added them together. And it kept growing until it hit 42, where…