I’ve blogged before about sky farms, and how I think they’re a truly excellent idea. When last I wrote about it in 2009, it was a mad (yet extremely rational), science fictional solution to agriculture. Now, as with so much… Read more ›
Well, I’m back! We survived not only the Mongol Rally, but the ensuing two weeks in Ulaanbataar (more on that in another post, though). In the meantime, I bring you some Chinese science journalism, courtesy of the free newspaper* on… Read more ›
Hurrah! Today, I introduce the first of a number of new bloggers starting over the next few months. The Southern Genes blog, to be contributed to by a number of people from Genetics Otago, aims not only to talk about… Read more ›
Apologies for the slightly dodge agrarian pun in the subject line. Reading the headline for this, however, has had me hanging onto my chair in hysterics for the last 5 minutes (a long time, believe me). And, given the extent… Read more ›
Statistics New Zealand’s just released its figures for New Zealand’s agricultural production to June 2009. The overall message? Dairy cows are up 5% to almost 6 million, with a particularly big increase in the South Island. On the other hand,… Read more ›
The discussion of how to increase our agricultural/horticultural output is hardly a new one. In fact, it’s been a mainstay of human development – ever-larger populations of people has brought with it the challenge of how to ramp up ways of feeding the… Read more ›
I’m sure everyone is familiar with Shrodinger’s Cat, the infamous quantum-mechanical thought experiment (apparently, it was first posited as a sort of laughing attempt to put in real terms some of quantum mechanics’ more…interesting…theories). We… Read more ›
So, our urge to mess with our food continues unabated, it seems, and as usual, aesthetics are a fundamental part of this (as with many of our endeavours, I think).So yes, a few new instances of pleasantly pretty produce. In first place (because I live… Read more ›