It's ironic that a subset of people inclined to believe that ordinary farmers and the companies that supply them are built on an elaborate corporate conspiracy willingly suspend all logic and sense when it comes to organic food.But there you have it. However, not only is Whole Foods competing using aggressive marketing, a new article shows that they are outright lying to people; about pesticides,...
read moreThe Advanced Wonder Excitement Surprise Original Mechatronic Excellence lab is usually devoted to robot design but recently they took a break to go old school. How old school? The 13th century, that's how old school. read...
read moreGlen Tickle, a comedian and Senior Editor at Geekosystem, recently received a lovely gift: a note card with a recipe for a chemical-free weedkiller. A note card recipe! How grandmotherly! Except there is nothing chemical-free about it. And Dawn dishwashing liquid was nothing my grandmother ever used, when it came out it was so quasi-futuristic and chemical-company new that it might as well have...
read moreThe Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is a group that is basically right on a big issue - the freedom of family farms and consumers - and then takes that libertarian philosophy and does something really wrong with it: they think there is some natural right to foist off raw milk on a public which, let's face it, is not agrarian any more. Raw milk will make a lot of people sick, especially if it...
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In an Internet world where everyone is told they have to shamelessly promote and Buzzfeed and Upworthy "What I Saw Next Made Me Cry" titles are the norm, it is weird to see something like this, the self-chosen bio for the man who basically invented the World Wide Web. And that makes it even more awesome:And I thought my job title slightly understated my actual role......
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