Really interesting article about a co-op seed distributor that decided to stop using a seed company after Monsanto bought it. Good for them.

Quoted: In January 2005 Monsanto announced that they were buying Seminis for $1.4 billion in cash and assumed debt. Noted for its aggressive advocacy of genetically ...

Yes.

Quoted: New research published in Biomass and Bioenergy shows that kudzu could produce up to 270 gallons of ethanol per acre: Not very much when compared to rapeseed, jatropha or palm oil but easily as much as can be produced from corn.

I love this graffiti.

Quoted: Reaching across the Israeli-Palestinian divide, G.ho.st is developing a free, Web-based virtual computer.

Nice.

Quoted: “It’s much better for employee morale if a small-business owner never offers health benefits, than it is to offer them and then be forced to take it away because it is too expensive to continue,” said William J. Dennis, NFIB’s senior research fellow.

Quoted: Craig Coleman, assistant professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Connecticut and co-author of the study, said that it suggests that more research on ...

What a weird study.

Quoted: "MySpace has most of the kids who are socially ostracised at school because they are geeks, freaks, or queers," she said.

Why to avoid the hospital if you can at all...

Quoted: As many as 1. 2 million hospital patients are infected with dangerous, drug-resistant staph infections each year, almost 10 times more than...

Kind of a neat lab.

Quoted: Not many systematic studies have been performed on the question of how humans are able to change the rules in commons dilemmas.

Following the bee story.

Quoted: It's far from the first bee die-off. In 1975, so-called Disappearing Disease hit 27 states.