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2009 Visualization Challenge
Posted by Pamela Ronald on March 5, 2010
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Science Magazine this week published the winners of this year’s International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. Self-Fertilization: Heiti Paves and Birger Ilau, Tallinn University of Technology Within its tiny white flowers, thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) does what most plants avoid: It fertilizes itself. Heiti Paves of Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia took this photograph…
Let ‘em starve
Posted by Pamela Ronald on February 13, 2010 When I give lectures about the global food supply and the environment, often someone in the audience will comment that the best way to solve the problem is to quit producing so much food. I find this type of “Let ‘em starve” approach quite horrific from a humanitarian view. It also makes no sense scientifically.
