Category Archives: BIODIVERSITY

When it comes to food, technology won’t save us

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

A fellow blogger Janina commented on it. I am reproducing his words here. This is a great argument against the technology-driven, big-ag “food security” approach which focuses on the “need to feed the world” through more and flashier technological inventions. … Continue reading →

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Mud Pot or Mud Pool and Paint Pot: Landforms Resulting from volcanic and Biological Activity

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

One of the most interesting looking features of a thermal area is mudpots. A mudpot  or mud pool is an acidic hot spring, or fumarole, with limited water. It usually takes the form of a pool of bubbling mud. The acid … Continue reading →

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Terraced Rice Field, China

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Source: Green Yaatra Blog

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And Now Biological Computer(link)

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Using only biomolecules like DNA and enzymes, scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed  an advanced biological transducer, a computer capable of manipulating genetic codes, and using the output as new input for subsequent computations. The breakthrough might someday … Continue reading →

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