Monthly Archives: October, 2013

Agriculture Update: Thanksgiving Here in Canada Makes Me Grateful for What We Have

Why should we here in Canada be grateful on October 14, 2013, Thanksgiving Day? Because we live in a part of the world where...

Headlines: New Breakthrough in Biofuels Improves Output by 50%

October 13, 2013 - The article appeared in Nature, the weekly science journal, on September 30, 2013, and is entitled Synthetic non-oxidative glycolysis enables complete...

Agriculture Update: GMO Crops Safe to Eat But a Challenge for the Environment

I have read so many diatribes about GMO foods, the Frankenfoods that Monsanto has released into the world of agribusiness, that I am more...

Headlines: Today is the 45th Anniversary of the First Manned Apollo Launch and a Day to Remember Scott Carpenter

October 11, 2013 - It is also a day to commemorate the second American astronaut to fly around the Earth, Scott Carpenter, who died...

Headlines: Oil Company Exec Says Knowledge of Geophysics Will Come in Handy for Carbon Capture

October 10, 2013 - Dirk Smit, Vice President of Royal Dutch Shell, heads up the Exploration Technology Division. Seen in the picture at the...

Water and Waukesha, Wisconsin – A Symptom and Freshwater Challenge

Waukesha, Wisconsin is a suburban community west of Milwaukee (see map below). In 2012 the population was 70,920. Waukesha is a relatively prosperous town...

Final Stage Testing for Gene Therapies – A Revolution in Biomedicine

What does final-stage testing mean when talking about gene therapies? It means advanced human trials are on the go and governments shortly will begin...

Biomedicine Update: The Human Brain Project is All Systems Go

The 21st century is the century of the brain according to scientists and researchers from 135 institutions around the globe who have launched the...

Water – A Graphical Representation of the Resource

I credit Rashid Faridi, another Wordpress blogger for alerting me to the video graphic of All the Water on Earth. The video is only...

Did You Know that Food Wastage is the 3rd Largest Greenhouse Gas Contributor on the Planet?

We humans are careless with food. Every year as much as a third of what we produce goes to waste. So says the FAO,...

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