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Agriculture isn't Natural

June 12, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in agriculture, biotechnology, GMOs, Greenpeace | 17 comments

https://www.cranewoods.com/about-us/what-the-press-says/ In PLOS Biology, a UK geneticist offers some wise suggestions on how to move beyond the simplistic frames that dominate agriculture and the GMO discourse. She writes: First, it is necessary to move on from the well-worn logical fallacy that anything natural is good, and anything unnatural is bad. The application of this fallacy to agriculture… http://www.caladore.com/uk-customers/ Continue Reading…

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Reconciling Traditional and Religious Beliefs with Western Medicine

September 5, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in religion, science, select, skepticism | 15 comments

When a science-minded crusader in India was murdered in August, it made international headlines. As the New York Times reported: Narendra Dabholkar traveled from village to village in India, waging a personal war against the spirit world. If a holy man had electrified the public with his miracles, Dr. Dabholkar, a former physician, would duplicate… Continue Reading…

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Rattling the Echo Chamber

December 21, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in development | 3 comments

Buy Xanax Online Overnight Several weeks ago in Washington D.C., I met with a scholar whose work I find fascinating. My interview with Ed Carr, an archaeologist-turned geographer, is now up at Yale Environment 360. Here’s an excerpt: e360: Over the summer various commentators talking about the famine in Somalia and the drought in the Horn of Africa were making… Continue Reading…

Diagnosing Climate Security

April 6, 2010 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Africa, climate change, climate security | 1 comment

Now this initiative bears watching, because it gets beyond the fuzzy climate change cause-and-effect rhetoric. If adaptation is going to be done right in Africa–or anywhere–then this approach strikes me as a really smart way to go about it: “It is not enough to say that Ethiopia is vulnerable,” says Joshua Busby, an assistant professor… https://www.soundcontrolroom.com/services/design/ Continue Reading…

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Africa's Ancient Mysteries

November 2, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Africa, Archaeology, drought | No comments

Buy Xanax Online Without Prescription This article by Roger Webster, a South African historian, is intriguing on several levels. I was drawn in by this opening: One of the many aspects of history and archaeology that fascinates me is that, in many respects, archaeology becomes the verifier, or the destroyer, of history. Be sure to read it all the way… Buy Ambien Online Without Prescription Continue Reading…

Elephants Gone Wild

April 26, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Africa, wildlife conservation | No comments

https://www.soundcontrolroom.com/custom-creations/ Half of Zimbabwe’s 12 million people already rely on emergency food aid. Now, according to this UN dispatch, food shortages are being compounded by elephants eating and trampling the villagers’ crops. The scenes sound like something out of a Hitchcock movie, with villagers also guarding their agricultural fields from marauding baboons, wild pigs, and flocks… Continue Reading…

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