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"Genetically modified (GM) crops can save farmers using conventional seeds even more money than those using the transgenic varieties, according to an analysis published in Science this week1. And ensuring that some fields are kept free of the GM crops seems to be key to the overall success of the transgenic variety. Researchers, led by entomologist William Hutchison of the University of Minnesota in St Paul, assessed the effects of planting maize (corn) genetically modified to produce Bt toxin, which kills the European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis). They found that since the crop was introduced in 1996, US farmers in the key maize-growing states of Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin and Nebraska had saved nearly $6.9 billion. Of that, conventional farmers saved just over $4.3 billion, some 62% of the total. "We were surprised to find that a higher proportion of the total benefit is actually going to the non-Bt farmers," says Hutchison. The reason for the conventional farmers'... more... - Eivind from Bookmarklet

Thanks Jenny. What Eivind says. I see I need to read more on the subject. :-) - Maitani

"Purim (Hebrew: פורים (help·info) Pûrîm "lots", related to Akkadian pūru) is a festival that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people living throughout the ancient Persian Empire from a plot by Haman the Agagite to annihilate them, as recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther (Megillat Esther). According to the story, Haman cast lots to determine the day upon which to exterminate the Jews. Purim is celebrated annually according to the Hebrew calendar on the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Adar (Adar II in leap years), the day following the victory of the Jews over their enemies. Purim begins at sundown on the previous secular day. In cities that were protected by a surrounding wall at the time of Joshua, including Shushan (Susa) and Jerusalem, Purim is celebrated on the 15th of the month, known as Shushan Purim. Purim is characterized by public recitation of the Book of Esther (keriat ha-megillah), giving mutual gifts of food and drink (mishloach manot), giving charity to the... more... - ◄ 道 ► D/\\/|I|D ッ from Bookmarklet

"This Friday, June 25th, it will have been sixty years since the beginning of the Korean War in 1950. After decades of Japanese occupation, Korea was divided in two by Allied Forces at the end of World War II, with the south administered by the U.S. and the north by Soviet Russia. Deep divisions built over several years, leading to skirmishes and finally an invasion by North Korean troops on June 25th, 1950. The United Nations sent troops and support from 21 countries to support South Korea, primarily from the United States and Britain. The war lasted for three years, with large advances and retreats on both sides, and many casualties. Hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers were killed. The two Koreas are technically still at war since hostilities ended in a ceasefire, not a peace treaty in 1953. Though it is often referred to as "The Forgotten War", I hope this collection of photographs helps us to remember the events of 1950-53, those involved, and the legacy that still remains, sixty years later." - Pilkiz from Bookmarklet

28. fotoğraf çok başarılı - Pilkiz

The first couple of poems in particular are lovely. - Eyoki from FreshFeed

I love those two too. He is a favourite read when I am in a certain mood. - José Kilbride

"Louise Bourgeois, the French-born American artist who gained fame only late in a long career, when her psychologically charged abstract sculptures, drawings and prints had a galvanizing effect on younger artists, particularly women, died on Monday at the Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. She was 98." - Pilkiz from Bookmarklet

:( ah maman vah maman... - ipek tuna

"This is a barking owl, photographed at Caversham Wildlife Park in Perth. It’s a well-named creature, which, according to Wikipedia, emits noises that “range from a barking dog noise to a shrill woman-like scream of great intensity”. It’s said to be a potential source for Australia’s Bunyip legend, and I’m sure the striking yellow eyes don’t help either." - Eivind from Bookmarklet

I'm a Guesser. I think most British people are, although I think we've moved further towards the Asker end of the spectrum over the last 30 years. - Eyoki from FreshFeed

Begs the question" are you a doer or a thinker?" ;) - alapinto

Teeeeey! yılların Gandalf'ına bak yaaw!!! ne oldum dememeli... - Nazif Tunç

üşenmemiş godot olmuş sanki, şukela - pagan

bırak kardeşim herkes kafasına göre harita çiziyo nolcak bu işin sonu - SavaŞ

zaten bu herkesin kendi kafasina göre cizdigi avrupa haritalarindan birisi.. buldugun yerde diger memleketlere göre olanlar da vardir.. - azuth winchester

almanyaya göre bu. - ferayebach

"Sogdiana or Sogdia (Old Persian: Suguda-; Ancient Greek: Σογδιανή; New Persian: سغد - Sōġd; Tajik: Суғд - Sughd) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a province of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the eighteenth in the list in the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great (i. 16). Sogdiana is thought to be "listed" as the second of the "good lands and countries" that Ahura Mazda was believed to have created. This region is listed after the first, Airyana Vaeja, Land of the Aryans, in the Zoroastrian book of Vendidad, hence one can see how notice of this region has been taken since ancient times.[1] Sogdiana, at different periods of time, included territories around Samarkand, Bukhara, Khujand and Kesh in modern Uzbekistan. The inhabitants of Sogdiana were the Sogdians, an Eastern Iranian people." - Eivind from Bookmarklet

This is as good a summary as any I've seen of the disease that's eating away at Quakerism. - Eyoki from FreshFeed

I really must explore his work. Somehow or another, when I was going through my craze for all things Japanese in the mid-90s I never got round to Kurosawa. - Eyoki from FreshFeed

It's something for me to explore properly too. I saw the Hidden Fortress at the BFI in London a few years ago, and there was a BBC 2 series of his films in the late 1990s, but I've really only scratched the surface. - tangleofwires