asapscience:

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ucresearch:

Why we need GMOs to survive climate change

Genetically modified organisms get a bad rap for many reasons, but we’ve actually been genetically altering what we eat since the dawn of human history.

“For 10,000 years, we have altered the genetic makeup of our crops,”explains UC Davis plant pathology professor Pamela Ronald.

“Today virtually everything we eat is produced from seeds that we have genetically altered in one way or another.” (You can read more about Ronald’s thoughts on genetically engineered food here.)

Right now her focus is on rice. It’s one of our basic crops and without it, we would struggle to feed much of the world.

With climate change, we’re seeing an increase in flooding in places like India and Bangladesh, which makes it harder to grow this important food staple.

So Ronald and her lab have developed a flood-tolerant strain of rice. It’s known as Sub1a or “scuba rice” and millions of farmers in South Asia are now growing it in their fields. 

Today is National Food Day, a day dedicated to hunger awareness. But as we focus on food insecurity, we need to talk more about how global warming will make the problem worse.

As our climate continues to heat up, it has huge impacts on what foods we are able to grow. Will our crops be able to survive droughts and floods? The University of California leads six labs that are working to develop other climate-resilient crops including chickpea, cowpea and millet.

Find out what other scientists are doing to improve our food.

Your daily reminder that GMOs are not evil - profit-mongering corporations are.

This is literaly what happens in nature. this gene ‘might’ have been able to transfer eventualy over time. so instead of waiting we just give the genes a little nudge,

see also the rice and bananas that were given a gene to produce vitamin A so that thousands of kids dont go blind due to vitamin A deficiencies

@chazemspren

ALL OF THIS!!! When you discuss GMOs please be mindful to not conflate the science, which is good and vital, with the awful business practices of companies like Monsanto.

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jazztronic:

No trouble at all, my friend! I love doing these sorts of things. Plus it gives me a reason to talk about Giorno which I always enjoy doing.

The beginning of Vento Aureo is one of my favourites because of its pacing when it comes to the revelation of Giorno’s identity. It is very meticulous and keeps throwing metaphorical bricks of uneasiness at the reader. Pretty much all of us (to not say 100% of us) read VA in one go. JJBA is such a huge thing it’s very likely a lot of people went into part 5 at least having a vague idea about who Giorno was. But you have to think that back in the day VA was a weekly publication, and the people reading it had no way of guessing all the twists and revelations Araki threw their way during the entirety of the first tome - as in, Giorno’s whole introduction.

Let’s look at the first pages of Vento, shall we? (this gets really long winded, so I bolded the parallels if you just want to check those out and skip all my analysis - because I’m aparently incapable of making a bullet-point list like a normal person)

Keep reading

fotocopi:

YaYaHo: Low-Voltage Halogen System
All elements are adjustable horizontally, and in some cases vertically
by INGO MAURER 
1984

unconsumption:

A brand new product developed by PEGA will soon be able to replace the plastic shelling of your laptop. Paper PP Alloy is a material that is both strong and sturdy. It is also environmentally friendly and cost effective.

The material is made from a combination of recyclable paper and PP (Polypropylene)

More at: Recycled Paper Laptops Are The Future Of Computing @PSFK