Unnatural selection: Wily weeds outwit herbicides
The Lazarus File
First look at Ion Torrent data: De novo assembly
Ion Torrent's Data Quality Is Pretty Good (and Better Than Ion Claims)
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Punished for Poll on New Mother
Paper Tigers: What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends?
Taxes and work
"I Totally Lost the Picture. I'm Like, 'Oh S***.'"
Graduate Education: Economic Voodoo with Silver Lining?
South Dakota Banning Abortion Without Banning Abortion?
Norway's controversial 'cushy prison' experiment - could it catch on in the UK?
What is Inflation
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At last! Scientific proof of the psychic power of plants!
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Thanks for the link. Odd I almost didn't post that post, since I thought that everyone who knows what inflation is also knows that most people think it means rising prices and shrinking real incomes by definition.
Yeah, and they are shape-shifters too. In rice, barnyardgrass evolves to mimic rice at the stage where hand weeding occurs.
Until we have weed-killing robots that do instant DNA tests, it's probably a Red-Queen's race even with herbicides and integrated pest management techniques.
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