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Data dumps inhibit a more genuine way of handling ecological knowledge
… Scientists are suggesting that a thin layer of floating calcium carbonate can cut sunlight over reefs by 30% and save some high value reefs from bleaching. This should work well on all the reefs that evolved in the last fifty years and which don’t have moving water. But half of the coral genera around today have been around since the Oligocene (23-34 million years ago) and for most of that time
Facebook tracks its users online, far beyond the app and other services. Given the latest data privacy scandal involving Trump-linked data firm Cambridge Analytica , Mozilla is letting internet users fight back. SEE ALSO: Mozilla pulls ads from Facebook until Zuck makes good A new browser extension called the " Facebook Container " lets Firefox users isolate their activity on Facebook to Facebook
President Donald Trump is currently short on attorney , and since it looks like he's gonna need one (or two), an anonymous good Samaritan decided to put a job posting on Craigslist to help Trump out. SEE ALSO: Donald Trump's 'pee tape' controversy, explained Under the title, "SEEKING LEAD ATTORNEY FOR DIFFICULT CLIENT," the listing , firs spotted by reporter Igor Bobic , puts the place of busines
If you think you are having a bad day, spare a thought for this unfortunate metro commuter in Istanbul. The incident, which reportedly took place on F...
Salt particles, he argues, would reflect more of the Sun's rays back in to space and help to reduce global warming. The brainchild of US Planetary Sci...
On today's BradCast : the Overton Window regarding gun safety reform may have just taken a dramatic lurch towards "the left". And, then, the heated battle to block a new 100% unverifiable computer voting system (disguised as a "paper ballot" system) from being implemented in Georgia reaches a climax, as this year's legislative session in the state nears its end. [ Audio link to today's show is po
This is a fight between a young, diverse, feminist generation against an old, white, male minority desperate to hang on to power Young activists raised on social media and memes were bound to come up with the best protest signs. At the March for Our Lives, and the national school walkout earlier this month, teenagers held posters blasting politicians and declaring, “I should be writing my college
British politician, broadcaster, and writer George Galloway has slammed Donald Trump's decision to expel 60 Russian diplomats and close the Russian consulate in Seattle. Galloway regards it as tantamount to a "declaration of war." Galloway contrasted the US' actions with those of EU member states. Those EU countries who rushed to follow the lead of Britain and the US in response to the poisoning o
Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May’s evidence to the Commons liaison committee Wylie’s evidence about Cambridge Analytica and Vote Leave - Summary 5.08pm BST May says that to say it is disappointing that the international development committee were not issued with visas so they could visit Myanmar to investigate the plight of the Rohingya is
The scandal around mass data harvesting by Cambridge Analytica took a new twist on Monday. A Channel 4 news undercover investigation revealed that the company's Eton-educated CEO Alexander Nix offered to use dirty tricks - including the use of bribery and sex workers - to entrap politicians and subvert elections. Much of the media spotlight is now on Cambridge Analytica and their shadowy antics in
Stevens says that getting rid of the "relic of the 18th century" would weaken the NRA. The opinion goes further than most gun control advocates. (Image credit: Danny Johnston/AP)
“I was driving when I heard ‘The President Sang Amazing Grace,’” Joan Baez told The Atlantic , “and I had to pull over to make sure I heard whose song it was because I knew I had to sing it.” The 77-year-old folk legend included the song in her final album, Whistle Down The Wind , released in early March . Originally written and performed by Zoe Mulford following the 2015 mass shooting in a histo
A newly discovered network of fluid-filled channels in the human body may be a previously-unknown organ, and it seems to help move cancer cells around the body
Parts of the Amazon previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million people, new research shows.
NASA is delaying the launch of its next-generation space telescope—its highest science priority—until at least 2020.
When drawing scientists, US children now depict women more often than ever, an analysis of five decades of “Draw-A-Scientist” studies conducted since the 1960s shows. The change suggests that children’s stereotypes linking science with men have weakened over time, the researchers say, consistent with more women becoming scientists and children’s media depicting more female scientists on televisio
Researchers have identified a previously unknown feature of human anatomy with implications for the function of all organs, most tissues and the mechanisms of most major diseases.
NASA reveals major delay for $8-billion Hubble successor NASA reveals major delay for $8-billion Hubble successor, Published online: 27 March 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-03863-5 Setback for James Webb Space Telescope could have broader effects on agency’s astrophysics programme.
Rather than the usual California-based event in March, this year Apple took its team to Chicago to make its spring announcements, most of which revolved around a new iPad geared toward the education market. In addition, the company also introduced updates to iWork, a new app for teachers, and a new stylus called Crayon that’ll also work with the new iPad. Since the event took place at a high scho
The new Apple iPad has the same design and overall features as its predecessor, but has a new processor and support for the Apple Pencil. It will be available this week for $329 for consumers and $299 for educators. Dan Seifert reports from Apple’s education event in Chicago. *Correction: The processor is actually an A10 fusion not A10x.* Subscribe: https://goo.gl/G5RXGs Check out our full video
For more inspiring imagery visit eliasaikaly.com or instagram.com/eliasaikaly/ Experience the beauty of Mt. Everest at night in time-lapse. While most climbers slept, I attempted to capture some of the magic that the Himalayan skies have to offer while climbing to the top of the world. These time lapse Images were captured as high as 6200m (camp 2) above sea level on Mt. Everest. We slept at 6000
In the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, brave rescuers risk their lives to keep the 21,000 whales living in the sanctuary safe. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmaker
When a man discovers that his bathroom has been visited by a large lizard, he has to call for assistance. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that m
Taken from the album Dialogues, released in 2016, the 21st of October Shot on Kodak 500T,16mm in Moscow and Barcelona wearemotorama.com Directed by Kinopravda Produced by Excuse My French, Stereotactic & Kinomoto Director of photography: Alberto Bañares D.O.P. 2nd Unit: Mark Ziselson Producer: Anna Szijártó, Dañila Kostil Executive producers: Constance Guillou, Robin Giraud, Pavel Karykhalin Edit
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode333-lq.mp3"][/audio] We all know that privacy is a thing of the past, right? Pfff. The government spying on everyone? That's yesterday's news. But if you think you've heard it all when it comes to the obtrusive police state panopticon, you've got another thing coming. Here are five privacies you didn't even realize you lost.
Today we talk to Dr. Paul Connett of the Fluoride Action Network (fluoridealert.org) about Food & Water Watch Inc., et al. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, a lawsuit that could bring an end to the practice of water fluoridation in the United States. We discuss the Toxic Substances Control Act under which the suit is being filed, how recent court rulings have allowed the case to p
Cambridge Analytica is in the news for its psychographic profiling of the population via Facebook data scrapes. So do you know about the scandal and its background? Well you would if you listened to The Corbett Report. Here's the backstory.
We all know that privacy is a thing of the past, right? Pfff. The government spying on everyone? That's yesterday's news. But if you think you've heard it all when it comes to the obtrusive police state panopticon, you've got another thing coming. Here are five privacies you didn't even realize you lost.
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode332-lq.mp3"][/audio] Now openly admitted, governments and militaries around the world employ armies of keyboard warriors to spread propaganda and disrupt their online opposition. Their goal? To shape public discourse around global events in a way favourable to their standing military and geopolitical objectives. Their method? The Weaponization
To many, the cafe represents a trend of commercialism and 25,000 people petitioned to stop it from opening
To many, the cafe represents a trend of commercialism and 25,000 people petitioned to stop it from opening
The US military plans to use ocean critters, including transgenic ones, as underwater spies
The forest-dwelling Sengwers have been repeatedly targeted by the government
The forest-dwelling Sengwers have been repeatedly targeted by the government

The Rules of Exposition

IZQuotes Which two of these statements mean the same? Every draft is a Bill of Exchange Every draft is not a Bill of Exchange No draft is a Bill of Exchange Number 2 means the same as number 3. Number 1 means the opposite. Easy, right? You'd think so. How bout this: Some drafts are Bills of Exchange. Some drafts are not Bills of Exchange. Not every draft is a Bill of Exchange. All three are equiv

A Closer Look: Jody Paterson

People change. I get that. But I still feel a flash of furious disbelief every time I see one of my soft-left acquaintances embracing the writing of a man who not so long ago was the powerful architect of a most terrible era in BC - one that we're still trying to recover from. Martyn Brown is the former chief of staff of former BC premier Gordon Campbell. Everything that right-minded people hated
Social justice is the absence of injustices against individuals in society. But social justice is also a Liberal brand that powerfully connects citizens to the Liberal government, via superficial and institutionally manufactured "good person" self-identity. The gravy train is back with the latest federal budget. Canned high-impact Liberal social justice programs have hit the jackpot. In
I’ve written a petition for the parliament petition site: Don’t send England football team to Russia, hold alternative tournament instead In view of the nerve agent attack in Salisbury, we shouldn’t sent the England team to the 2018 FIFA world cup. Instead we should persuade FIFA to hold the tournament in another country. If that isn’t possible, we and our allies should hold our own rival tournam
Imagine you were designing an online messaging system. On your system, people could write messages, and other people could reply to them. And people could reply to the replies, and so on. So imagine you had a sequence of 5 messages, [1] to [5], where each is a reply to the last. In what order would you display them on the screen? I’d like you to think about that for a bit before you scroll down…
We are reposting this call to action released by supporters of Herman Bell. Please do what you can! Dear friends, Last week the New York State Board of Parole granted Herman Bell release. Since the Board’s decision, there has been significant backlash from the Police Benevolent Association, other unions, Mayor De Blasio and Governor Cuomo. They are demanding that Herman be held indefinitely, the
I've voted New Democrat in all Federal elections since 1972 with membership since 1981. With the woeful inexperience and bad judgement of the current Leader, I don't feel comfortable in the Federal Party anymore. Under his short leadership, major Party issues have been sidelined by 'Khalistan & Palestine'. Ongoing affiliation for me is very shaky. I am actively looking for reasons to stay. As wel
Is the US Government Criminally Insane? March 21, 2018 | Categories: Guest Contributions | Is the US Government Criminally Insane? Read these articles and make up your mind: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49037.htm https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/03/21/russian-military-warns-major-war-in-syria-imminent.html https://www.uawire.org/lavrov-us-british-french-and-other-number-of-
Putin’s State of the Union By: 3 | 01 March , 2018 | Putin’s State of the Union Paul Craig Roberts Putin has given a remarkable address to the Federal Assembly, the Russian People, and the peoples of the world. In his speech Putin revealed the existence of new Russian nuclear weapons that make it indisputably clear that Russia has vast nuclear superiority over the United States and its pathetic N
One of the best things about the new attestation for the Canada Summer Jobs program -- besides cutting off funding to anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ organizations -- is that it represents a strong message that respect for women's and LGBTQ rights is NOT a matter of opinion. It is the norm. And the corollary is that anti-choice is a fringe position. Anti-choice seeks to deny and rescind rights that the
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See Video on Newsmax Also, in the interview, Holy Joe mentions: “I’ve been a Democrat all my life. I got rejected by the Democratic Party in 2006 and went on as an independent, and thank God and the people of Connecticut, I got re-elected. “So I’m up again in 2012. I probably will run again. I’ve got to make that decision by the end of this year, I would say. You know, it’s possible. I haven’t de

Greg Mankiw's Blog

Perfect for wearing when you teach Chapter 9 of my favorite textbook . (Make sure to check out the image on the back.)
The End of the F***ing World . A compelling coming-of-age/crime/love story, like a merger of The Breakfast Club and Bonnie and Clyde . On Netflix in eight brief episodes. Most definitely binge-worthy.
How often do Jeffrey Sachs and the Wall Street Journal editoral writers agree?
March 21, 2018 ( Joseph Thomas - NEO ) - US soft power is included in US policy papers and promoted by US politicians and diplomats on a regular basis. It is also included as the admitted purpose of US, UK and European international programmes like Chevening and Fulbright scholarships. Foreign Affairs magazine, published by big-business-funded US policy think tank, the Council on Foreign Relation
March 16, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - As the West rallies around recent allegations by the UK against Russia regarding the alleged poisoning of former Russian military intelligence officer-turned British spy - Sergei Skripal - it is crucial to point out the alarming lack of actual evidence involved. It is also important to point out the history of the accusers predicating entire wars on alle
March 2, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - Propaganda used by the United States and its partners amid its destructive campaign of regime change aimed at the Syrian government has collapsed. Western media platforms find themselves relying on increasingly absurd narratives told to an increasingly smaller audience. They also find themselves the targets of growing criticism from around the world. The
A 2012 US policy paper admittedly sought to "bleed" the Syrian government, and with it the Syrian people. Today in Syria, the consequences of America's depraved foreign policy is being blamed by Western special interests on the very victims it targeted. March 5, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - From the beginning of Syria's conflict the United States presented to the world its unyielding ultimatu
March 14, 2018 ( Ulson Gunnar - NEO ) - The United States has spent over a year now leveling accusations against the Russian Federation regarding alleged political meddling during the 2016 US elections. While accusations range from everything including "fake news" spread across the Internet to direct ties to the administration of US President Donald Trump used to assist him into power, no evidenc
March 10, 2018 ( Joseph Thomas - NEO ) - From Cambodia to Thailand American and European media companies have launched a campaign of disinformation aimed at reversing Washington's waning influence in the region vis-à-vis not only Beijing, but the growing strength of nations the US and Europe once saw as mere geopolitical pawns. Cambodia Expels US-Run Opposition Party and Media In Cambodia, articl
At first glance, this story headlined "Brooklyn man wins nearly $1M lawsuit after NYPD cop tried to frame him on DWI charge" might almost seem like a feel-good story. A cop in a marked SUV ran a stop sign and crashed into another car. What did the cop do? Being one of those "few bad apples" we often hear about, he of course arrested the guy for DUI! Alas, he made one critical mistake — the guy he

Middle East Today

Very important political and cultural changes were introduced in the past few months in Saudi Arabia, which is considered the most conservative Arab and Islamic state. The changes were introduced by prince Mohamed bin Salman. Such changes were considered as quite daring political reforms. The new political reforms are as important if not more than the Spring Revolution of 2010-2011, which took pl

Morton's Musings

Under section 23 of the Courts of Justice Act the Small Claims Court has a limited jurisdiction. The CJA provides Small Claims Court has jurisdiction in any action for the payment of money or for the recovery of possession of personal property up to a value of $25,000. The recent Newfound decision in Baker v Harmina, 2018 NLCA 15 deals with a similar jurisdiction in a curious case involving the o
Winners are always champions of the status quo. Like Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson. He was asked whether it was fair that employers had paid MSP premiums for 40 per cent of workers, while the rest had to pay the premiums out of their own pockets. “Fairness is always a matter to be sorted out in the marketplace,” he said. “That’s what employers have to do is compete for good workers and pay them
Great. The lives of seniors in B.C. care homes, where they are already over-drugged and under-supported, now depend in part on the Chinese government. On Friday, the government seized control of Anbang Insurance Group, a financial giant with investments around the world. It cited corruption, fraud and a risk the whole $390-billion company could go broke. Last year, Anbang spent an estimated $1 bi
As many of you know, I've been researching the assassinations of the 1960s for more than 25 years now. I've had a particular interest in the assassination of Robert Kennedy. I started and stopped this book a couple of times over the last ten years, but got really serious about writing it over the last three and a half. Here is a preview of the cover. Jim DiEugenio was kind enough to write a
As someone who has handled employee-side employment law for many years, I run into the same frustrating mistakes over and over again. I thought I'd touch on a few that are common so that maybe I can stop you (or a friend or family member) from destroying their career. Here are the most common career-killing mistakes I see in my practice: Complaining about harassment : This is really the number one
As much as potential employers might try to lure you in with big promises, one major red flag that indicates an employer to avoid is high turnover. Bad employers will give all kinds of excuses for why so many have left or been fired, and none of it was their fault, of course. It's all bad luck, bad employees, bad fit, but never, ever, that they're a bad employer. I mention this, of course, in ligh
Frances McDormand made an impassioned plea during her Oscar speech for more diversity. She mentioned the term, "inclusion rider" at the end of her speech. So what is an inclusion rider , and can it be used in non-Hollywood employment agreements? The idea of the inclusion rider is that stars with lots of negotiating power can help those with little or now power by protecting them in the stars' cont
Okay, okay. So I've been promising these for awhile. It has taken me a bit to wrap my head around things that have happened so far since the presidential election. The good news is that the GOP remains the party that couldn't shoot straight (no pun intended). So far, little has been done against employees on the legislative front. It's mostly been done by executive order. So what can we expect for
Intervention in Syrien: Sollten wir eingestehen, dass der Krieg gegen das syrische Regime verloren ist? By Nikolaos van Dam – @ nikolaosvandam Vortrag gehalten am 7 März 2018 am Bruno Kreisky Forum für Internationalen Dialog, Wien Veröffentlicht am 8 März auf Syria Comment Ãœbersetzung der Rede in Englisch by Dr. Ann Vogel, a German sociologist, who did her Ph.D. at University in Washington, Seatt
Foreign intervention in Syria: Isn’t it time to admit that the war against the Syrian regime is being lost? By Nikolaos van Dam Lecture presented at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna 7 March 2018 & published on Syria Comment Tonight, the 7 th of March 2018, it is exactly 55 years ago, that a group of young Syrian Ba’thist officers secretly mobilized their military support

The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage

I submitted the following comment on the American Thinker site, in response to another comment stating that the United States suffers now from an "ideological imbalance" -- specifically, towards the far Left, or Democrat end. It may, and should be, of interest here (and, by the way, I will take no political comments on this science blog): The ideological imbalance came from cutting man off from t
Once more, good ol' Yahoo Mail has decided to screw things up totally. Their new mail form does not work on desktop. At ALL. Here's a brief list of problems: Mail is not marked as read when read. It remains unread. The reply links (both of them) are non-functional. I cannot reply to mail. The top-frame buttons to delete, mark read, etc. are non-functional. The buttons to go to previous/next
I AM BRAINWASHED. YOU ARE BRAINWASHED. WE ARE BRAINWASHED. PART FOUR: The Hosing of History: James Laxer (1941-2018) . Written By Robin Mathews March 2018 James Laxer was an attractively warm Canadian who made important Canadian history in the 1960s and 1970s … and then slipped into the political shadows (relatively) until his death on February 23, 2018. His large Obituary in the Globe and Mail (
Written by Grant G " a good plan today is worth more than a brilliant idea tomorrow" .....For John Horgan, neither is true, there is no good plan today and as for tomorrow, tomorrow will have to wait while Premier Dithers hand out more homework assignments to his chosen "consultants" ....the delayers, the make cover for premier Dithers' decisions.... In other words.....if this is leadership or vi
The European Union. Self-Destruction in Process. Written by Robin Mathews (March 2018) It didn’t come together quickly … and its collapse won’t happen in a blinding flash. But the growing dissatisfaction among European populations will grow. Misrepresented by the likes of Mario Draghi, European Central Bank head – and former Goldman Sachs employee, and Jean-Claude Junker, President of the Europea
“The Law’s delay, the insolence of office” (Shakespeare/ Hamlet) Written By Robin Mathews (March 2018) One of the most important legal cases in the history of Canada is presently in shadows as three B.C. Appeal Court justices weigh arguments in the Crown-appealed case (Jan. 15, 2018) against socially-challenged and recovering heroin addicts, John Nuttall and Amanda Korody. Put simply – they were

thwap's schoolyard

Of all the things you could be going after that degenerate Trump for, you choose to go after his "maybe avoiding nuclear war with Russia" thing. This is why I've given up. Humanity is simply TOO FUCKING STUPID to survive.
So, in Part I , I talked about the Russian-origin "fake news" that supposedly destroyed Hillary Clinton's campaign (all on its own, with no help from the fact that Clinton was a terrible, uninspiring candidate, offering traditional Democratic voters more of the same rotten status-quo; who pissed-off the progressive base of the party by stealing the nomination from Bernie Sanders and then telling
So, there's this insultingly stupid meme going around that Russia's Vladimir Putin stole the 2016 US presidential election for Trump. He didn't. Trump is not Putin's puppet. Trump is a con-artist and he has a lot of financiers in Russia. Because there are a lot of uber-crooked oligarchs in Russia with lots of liquid assets they need to launder. This access to dirty money endears Russia to Trump a

Vagabond Scholar

I've posted this song before, but it's one of my favorite picks for the day. Here's Dead Can Dance (with Lisa Gerrard singing) performing a striking rendition of the 19th century Irish tune, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley": My copy of the The Irish Songbook says: This is an excellent example of many songs that serve both as love lyrics and rebel song. The scene described refers to the 1783

Weekly Geo-Political News and Analysis

The start today (March 26, 2018) of oil futures trading in gold-backed Chinese yuan is being widely seen as a Chinese victory in the ongoing financial war for control of the planet Earth. It is also a good time to remind China that the world will NEVER swap Khazarian mafia control for Chinese mafia control. The West will be eternally grateful for the help provided by Asian secret societies in its
The purge at the very tip top of the U.S. secret power structure is nearly complete, meaning a much larger purge is now about to take place, according to Pentagon, CIA, and other sources. The top leadership of the White House, the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, the Pentagon, and other U.S. agencies is now composed almost entirely of white hats. This means that a systematic purge of the lower ranks is now
The Khazarian mafia faction that has been trying to start World War III and kill 90% of humanity is now on its last legs, multiple sources agree. The clearest sign of this was an executive order and a 636-page annex issued on March 1 by U.S. President Donald Trump and the Department of Defense that prepares the way for Nuremberg-style tribunals. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/201
The final defeat of the Khazarian mafia is now visible on the horizon as their world control grid continues to collapse. This is being seen most recently with dramatic political events in Italy, Japan, Korea, and the U.S. Soon we will also see change in the UK, France, Germany, and Israel, multiple sources agree. The biggest news in the past week was the announcement of a planned summit meeting b
For the first time since Friday, October 13th, 1307, the Knights Templar have been invited back into the inner sanctum of monotheism, according to Templar and P2 Freemason lodge sources. So, a 711-year-old injustice, one that gave rise to the superstition of Friday the 13th being unlucky, is finally being addressed. This is just another sign that we are experiencing events that can only be descri
Hi Ben: One of your subscribers noticed the linked video of Bandar’s supposed suicide. This was actually an event that took place at Atlanta International Airport on Feb. 28, 2018 as reported by local media: http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2018/02/28/atlanta-airport-jump-over-railing/ Drunk & Threatening Guy Jumps Over Railing At Atlanta … onemileatatime.boardingarea.com The story of a man
UNC Beats Dook! Going for Virginia tomorrow night!!!!____________________ In my afternoon mail, I found some really terrific political insight from my favorite reporter, Lee Camp at "Redacted Tonight," when he interviews the incredibly still alive ex-CIA operative, Ray McGovern. Hey - In this gripping interview with 27-year CIA veteran Ray McGovern, he tells me that Deep State is very

What Is Sustainable

Cue up the marching band, majorettes, flag-waving veterans, and cheering crowds. The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone is a proud celebration of American greatness. The hero of the story is David Fairchild (1869–1954), a botanist and agricultural explorer. Working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, his group was responsible for sending home seeds and cuttings of thousands of plants from nations
Cue up the marching band, majorettes, flag-waving veterans, and cheering crowds. The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone is a proud celebration of American greatness. The hero of the story is David Fairchild (1869–1954), a botanist and agricultural explorer. Working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, his group was responsible for sending home seeds and cuttings of thousands of plants from nations
Cue up the marching band, majorettes, flag-waving veterans, and cheering crowds. The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone is a proud celebration of American greatness. The hero of the story is David Fairchild (1869–1954), a botanist and agricultural explorer. Working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, his group was responsible for sending home seeds and cuttings of thousands of plants from nations
Once upon a time, the Great Plains of the western U.S. resembled the Serengeti of Africa, a vast prairie inhabited by abundant wildlife. Each year, during the wet season, grasslands produce far more new biomass than forests do, per unit of land. The greenery converts sunlight into carbohydrates, nutrients necessary for the existence of animal life in the ecosystem. Thus, the usually sunny plains 

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