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March 31, 2009
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
You know the story: we can have Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock costarring and filmed in scenes where they are frantically blogging to make sure they reach a certain number of readers per day. Why? Because a crazy Dennis Hopper...
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March 30, 2009
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
With the exception of my slip up during the introductions (I introduced Charles as "Sir Charles..."), here is a pretty great video of old Chuck talking to a class of high school students....
Posted by David Ng at 11:18 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Industrial Agriculture
Just an accounting of the last month of local food, sustainable agriculture, and science/food/safety articles is difficult to produce. Let alone a full understanding of them.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2009
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Eight choices for the best example of a design flaw. You decide.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:30 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 18, 2009
Category: Guests at the Fair
From eviscerating Rorty to sharing breakfast with him, from handing out candy and chewing out Heidegger to yelling at me, Grene was a giant of 20th century philosophy and biology.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 12:00 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 16, 2009
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Landfills are leading consumption indicators. Some are seeing 30% declines of late.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 13, 2009
Category: The Book Building
And our own Jonah Lehrer is responsible for one of them
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 12:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 6, 2009
Category: Industrial Agriculture
Science studies outside the lab; new science in fields of genetically engineered nature
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March 5, 2009
Category: Industrial Agriculture
lots of sugar beets, mechanized tomato harvesters, and some lobbying for the importation of Mexican workers
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 4, 2009
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
From the Greeks to the so-called Rice Krispies paradox to Granola Revisionists to Bush's anti-cereal science agenda
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 2:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
