You’ve heard of white rice, brown rice, and long grain and wild rice. But you may not have heard of Golden Rice. It’s the brainchild of some scientists who recognized a problem and used genetics to try to solve it. They recognized that in many rice-eating cultures in Asia and Africa, people were not getting […]
Today on KTRS, I continued the conversation I began a few weeks ago with Michael Mann, one of the world’s leading climate researchers. Since he began publicly warning about the Earth’s rising temperatures and the effects of climate change 15 years ago, he and his colleagues have been attacked by the fossil fuel industry, right-wing […]
br> A couple of week ago, scientists introduced the world to the first test-tube hamburger, a piece of meat grown in a laboratory. Josh Schonwald was the first journalist to taste the in vitro meat, so I asked him to join me on America Weekend today to describe how it tastes, the science behind the […]
“Breaking Bad” returned to AMC tonight for the eight episodes that will finish the sage of chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-making-drug-lord Walter White. I didn’t watch the show when it first aired, but caught up with it by binge-watching the first four seasons last summer. I was hooked worse than a meth-head by the brilliant storytelling and acting and […]
Michael Mann is one of the world’s leading climate researchers, as well as (as he describes himself) “the central object of attack in what some have characterized as the best-funded, most carefully-orchestrated assault on science the world has known.” Those attacks come from front groups for the fossil fuel industry, right-wing politicians, and climate change […]
A front-page story in today’s NY Times reports on efforts in Florida to save the orange industry from a disease that has been turning millions of oranges half-green. The answer seems to be to modify the DNA of the oranges to fight off the bacteria causing the disease. But as soon as you start talking […]