A Conversation with Don B. about Maize

Don B. lives in a village about ten miles from Guanajuato in the state of Guanajuato in Central Mexico.  He began working the fields at age 8 and still tends…

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Most Mind-Boggling Sentence of the Day

With respect to GM maize: “Indigenous communities in Mexico, after lengthy discussions, are taking action. At times their moves are surprising:  for instance they have decided that contaminated maize should…

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Some considerations on obesity

Well, the problem of obesity had to come up sooner or later.  It’s a subject that puzzles me.  I don’t find most of the standard answers for the surge in…

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