pronald | September 20, 2012Recently, a number of very informative article about global food security, genetically engineered crops and the CA labeling initiative have been published. Here I provide links to a few:
Food Crises and Technological Phobia « Biofortified.
GMO Crops: To Label Or Not To Label http://j.mp/S3ie0i
Scientific and Academic Community Responds to CA initiative on#GMO Labeling http://www.noprop37.com/press/scientific-and-academic-community-responds-to-qualification-of-ballot-measure-mandating-labeling-of-genetically-engineered-foods/ …
Stop worrying; start growing - Fagström &al (2012) - EMBO…
pronald | September 17, 2012Find out more about the man behind the funding for the California Proposition 37 labeling initiative.
"Many of Mercola's articles make unsubstantiated claims and clash with those of leading medical and public health organizations. For example, he opposes immunization [4] and fluoridation [5], and mammography [6]; claims that amalgam fillings are toxic [7]; and makes many unsubstantiated recommendations for dietary supplements. Mercola's reach has been greatly boosted by repeated promotion on the "Dr. Oz Show."
FDA Orders Dr. Joseph Mercola to Stop Illegal Claims.
pronald | September 17, 2012Endorsement: Prop. 37 is a sour plan for food labeling - Endorsements - The Sacramento Bee.
pronald | September 4, 2012
The Top American Science Questions: 2012
"Whenever the people are well-informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government."
Science now affects every aspect of life and is an increasingly important topic in national policymaking.
ScienceDebate.org invited thousands of scientists, engineers and concerned citizens to submit what they felt were the the most important science questions facing the nation that the candidates for president should be debating on the campaign trail.
ScienceDebate then worked with the leading US science and engineering organizations…
pronald | September 4, 2012ScienceDebate 2012 | Obama, Romney Answer Top American Science Questions.
pronald | August 31, 2012Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering series on Sustainable Agriculture and modern biotechnology #KSLA2012 with tweets · KamounLab · Storify.
pronald | August 3, 2012A story by Guest Blogger Kay Watt
Rice steamed in the husk and left to dry, then threshed is one of the subtle specialties of the region.
In Panama the rainy season lasts most of the year. Rivers flood, runoff pours down hillsides, and the red clay roads become impassable. Horses strain forward against thick mud rising almost to their chests, soaked riders urging them on. The village of Limón, 300 people and a two-room school house, both depend on and fight against the rain. The small town grew up near a river that used to serve as transportation to the coast. Although the area was…
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pronald | July 31, 2012What Is Life? A 21st Century Perspective | Conversation | Edge.
In February 1943 one of the most distinguished scientists of the 20th Century, Erwin Schrödinger, delivered a seminal lecture, entitled 'What is Life?', under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, in Trinity College, Dublin. The then Prime Minister, Éamon de Valera, attended the lecture and an account of it featured in the 5 April 1943, issue of Time magazine.
The lecture presented far-sighted ideas on how hereditary information could be encoded in a chemical structure (aperiodic crystal) in living cells.…
pronald | July 21, 2012Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software - NYTimes.com.
Hey women scientists, does U.S. Swim Coach McKeever's story sound familiar? Don’t Call Her a Pioneer
pronald | July 19, 2012Love this story
Pinnacle for U.S. Swim Coach McKeever, but Don’t Call Her a Pioneer - NYTimes.com.
Many women scientists could tell a similar one, I think.
pronald | July 19, 2012ScienceDebate 2012 | The Questions.
"Whenever the people are well-informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government."
Science now affects every aspect of life and is an increasingly important topic in national policymaking.
ScienceDebate.org invited thousands of scientists, engineers and concerned citizens to submit what they felt were the the most important science questions facing the nation that the candidates for president should be debating on the campaign trail.
ScienceDebate then worked with the leading US science and engineering organizations listed at…
pronald | June 20, 2012Journalist Kevin Kloor discusses the spread of disinformation about GMOs The latest, most egregious example is a report with an Orwellian title, “GMO Myths and Truths”
via Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Look Beyond the Scientific Veneer of a GMO Report.
He makes a plea to influential and well-respected scholars like Marion Nestle: Dont be fooled by a scientific veneer.
pronald | June 17, 2012F. Cunningham gave a great talk today at the ASM 2012 meeting on the discovery of provitamin A synthesis, Vitamin A deficiency and the creation of Golden Rice. Read my twitter stream here.
pronald | June 13, 2012New study concludes" "The western bean cutworm is neither a 'new plant pest' nor 'caused by GE corn' as stated by Greenpeace."
pronald | June 13, 2012Over the past 16 years, vast plantings of transgenic crops producing insecticidal proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have helped to control several major insect pests and reduce the need for insecticide sprays. Today, a report in Nature shows that planting of BT crops is also associated with an increase of ladybirds, lacewings and spiders, which are natural enemies of certain pests that harm the crop.
On the basis of data collected from 1990 to 2010 at 36 sites in six provinces of northern China, the authors show a marked increase in abundance in these three arthropods…
pronald | June 13, 2012#GMOFAQ: Transferring genes from one species to another is neither unnatural nor dangerous