Michael Pollan and Raj Patel invite me to their class to discuss “GMOs”
"Many worthy people objected to the production of hybrids on the ground that it was an impious interference with the laws of Nature." This comment by Maxwell T.
Stories by Pamela Ronald
Lab Life: The Anatomy of a Retraction
Scientists travel on the edge of the known world, exploring nature through observation, experimentation and repeated testing. Our building blocks are pieces of experimental evidence that are linked into coherent models of the universe...
Update to Boston Review Forum on GMOs
Doug Gurian-Sherman at the Union of Concerned scientists wrote me a polite email yesterday. He protested that one of the sentences in my response to Margaret Mellon’s response to my recent Boston Review piece on “GMOs”, was “not professional and far from worthy of my typical efforts”...
Buddhist Economics and A GMO rethink
Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful. E. F.
Environment
Lets Talk: A Story of Interspecies Communication
It was Sept 4, 1939, the day after the UK declared war on Germany, when mathematician Alan Turing reported to work at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park.
Environment
Genetically Engineered Crops--What, How and Why
By the turn of the century, the number of people on Earth is expected to increase from the current 6.7 billion to 10 billion. How can we feed the growing population without further degrading the environment?Because the amount of land and water is limited, it is no longer possible to simply expand farmland to produce more food...
Environment
Genetically Engineered Crops--What, How and Why
By the turn of the century, the number of people on Earth is expected to increase from the current 6.7 billion to 10 billion. How can we feed the growing population without further degrading the environment?...
