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In the 1980s, Howard-Yana Shapiro, now chief agricultural officer at Mars, Incorporated, was looking for new kinds of corn. He was in the Mixes District of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, the area where the precursors to maize (aka corn) first evolved, when he located some of the strangest corn ever seen. Not only was it 16 to 20 feet tall, dwarfing the 12-foot stuff in American fields, it took six to eight months to mature, far longer than the 3 months needed for conventional corn. Yet it grew to those impressive heights in what can charitably be called poor soil, without the use of fertilizer.. But the strangest part of the corn was its aerial roots--green and rose-colored, finger-like protrusions sticking out of the corn’s stalk, dripping with a clear, syrupy gel.
A new worthwhile 2 hour NOVA episode Human Nature covers the new CRISPR DNA tool including discussion of ethics of DNA work. The above corn is an example of something researchers are trying to inject into other corn variety DNA.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/human-nature/
Switching between considerable photo processing work, this retired person rarely watches TV, doesn't play video games or that favorite activity of the bored, drinking alcohol. Instead outside of hiking, backpacking, photography, also been doing much science reading as is my passion. I buy used books on amazon, especially dated textbooks. Can highly recommend the below technical best seller book I finished recently with amazing large electron microscope photographs of the incredible machines that are living cells. He includes much in the bacteria realm also. It is really an introductory textbook in its presentation and explanation that also includes many diagrams of what the images show then explains how cells work with much only recently unraveled.
The Cell by Jack Challoner 2015
www.amazon.com/Cell-Visual-Tour-Building-Block/dp/022622418X/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=The+cell&qid=1599745831&s=books&sr=1-3
The book I am now half through reading is a more ambitious effort reading one of the most popular university botany textbooks for introductory botany that I recall picking up for just $24. Also with many images and diagrams and goes into much cell level science.
STERN Introductory Plant Biology 9th Edition by Kingsley Rowland Stern 2002
www.amazon.com/Introductory-Plant-Biology-Kingsley-Stern/dp/0072909412/ref=sr_1_14?dchild=1&keywords=stern+botany&qid=1599745948&s=books&sr=1-14
Our brains have vast potentials due to neural plasticity that depends more on what we feed it than the old narrative of IQ expected. We become what we fill it with and experience during our years of life. Just as we need to exercise our muscles to stay fit, we also need to exercise our brains, especially we seniors lest such fade and degenerate.
In the 1980s, Howard-Yana Shapiro, now chief agricultural officer at Mars, Incorporated, was looking for new kinds of corn. He was in the Mixes District of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, the area where the precursors to maize (aka corn) first evolved, when he located some of the strangest corn ever seen. Not only was it 16 to 20 feet tall, dwarfing the 12-foot stuff in American fields, it took six to eight months to mature, far longer than the 3 months needed for conventional corn. Yet it grew to those impressive heights in what can charitably be called poor soil, without the use of fertilizer.. But the strangest part of the corn was its aerial roots--green and rose-colored, finger-like protrusions sticking out of the corn’s stalk, dripping with a clear, syrupy gel.
A new worthwhile 2 hour NOVA episode Human Nature covers the new CRISPR DNA tool including discussion of ethics of DNA work. The above corn is an example of something researchers are trying to inject into other corn variety DNA.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/human-nature/
Switching between considerable photo processing work, this retired person rarely watches TV, doesn't play video games or that favorite activity of the bored, drinking alcohol. Instead outside of hiking, backpacking, photography, also been doing much science reading as is my passion. I buy used books on amazon, especially dated textbooks. Can highly recommend the below technical best seller book I finished recently with amazing large electron microscope photographs of the incredible machines that are living cells. He includes much in the bacteria realm also. It is really an introductory textbook in its presentation and explanation that also includes many diagrams of what the images show then explains how cells work with much only recently unraveled.
The Cell by Jack Challoner 2015
www.amazon.com/Cell-Visual-Tour-Building-Block/dp/022622418X/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=The+cell&qid=1599745831&s=books&sr=1-3
The book I am now half through reading is a more ambitious effort reading one of the most popular university botany textbooks for introductory botany that I recall picking up for just $24. Also with many images and diagrams and goes into much cell level science.
STERN Introductory Plant Biology 9th Edition by Kingsley Rowland Stern 2002
www.amazon.com/Introductory-Plant-Biology-Kingsley-Stern/dp/0072909412/ref=sr_1_14?dchild=1&keywords=stern+botany&qid=1599745948&s=books&sr=1-14
Our brains have vast potentials due to neural plasticity that depends more on what we feed it than the old narrative of IQ expected. We become what we fill it with and experience during our years of life. Just as we need to exercise our muscles to stay fit, we also need to exercise our brains, especially we seniors lest such fade and degenerate.