So if you haven't heard, Direct to Customer (DTC) genomics has hit the mainstream. Multiple companies (23andMe, deCODEme, etc.) will now...

It used to be a common sight for me this time of year (on the way to the maize experimental fields) to see straw and hay being raked into wi...

It's 3 am local time and I'm wide awake, fixated on the challenge of brand differentiation in ketchup... I recently spoke with one...

It's how the Dutch do it. A couple people told me it's common to see trees pruned like this out in rural areas - particu...

I just discovered the local international supermarket (which is awesome by the way). It's filled with exotic fruits and vegetables, asso...

Yes!  Personally, I'm a big fan of data visualization as a way of mining complex information. Pictures of data tend to contain more info...

Michelle tipped me off to yet another " all the bees are dying " article. The new wrinkle in the story is a leaked EPA memo that...

I was watching cable just now and came across Glenn Beck accusing Monsanto of being part of some kind of paranoid socialist conspiracy. This...

The supermarket's now selling brussel sprouts still-on-the-stem. It's a pretty clever marketing tactic - makes people think they...

I just got back from Wageningen, NV.* The Netherlands is a very wet country, but we had excellent weather and I had a lot of fun meeting eve...

It feels weird to be packing up my bindle-Civic again .

h/t: Mass Spectrometry Blog

The NY Times has a great article about environmentalism in the Fashion & Style section: " Buying into the Green Movement " Ba...

Humans sure love tobacco . It's the world's most widely-grown non-food crop (117 countries) and exists as 1500 varieties in the USD...

I shouldn't have been so surprised to learn that the same trends I've seen in plant ag research are going on over in the veterinary...

Anti-GM activists love to point out how the much-hyped promises of genetic engineering never really came to pass, and they're absolutely...

Corn meal in Africa is white. Although the carotenoids that color yellow corn are great for human nutrition, they make make corn meal more...