Hybrids are good. Excellent even. If anyone tells you otherwise, you send them to me. Alright I’ll take a couple of steps back. Hybrids are always hard to explain, I’ve tied myself in nots a couple of times tying to, but maybe this time is the charm. At it’s most fundamental levels, a hybrid is [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2009’
Irrigation in India
An article yesterday on the science website yesterday discusses the loss of groundwater in northern India. The technical details of how this are measured* are interesting in their own right. But just keep in mind what the final outcome will be if nothing changes from the way it is today. The region of northern India [...]
Tomato Blight and Common Ground
Dan Barber had a column in the new york times on Saturday addressing the major attack of tomato blight in the northeast this summer. Late Blight is a fungal disease that attacks tomatoes and potatoes (edit: Maybe also eggplants? They’re all pretty closely related). When potato harvests fail, people starve (see: Irish Potato famine). With [...]