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Food/Ag
Feathers, beaver butt excretions and CHEMICALS!! in your food? Yeah, but it's not what you think.
Bill Gates weighs in on GMOs and their potential to feed to world.
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In a lot of places, there's a lot of capacity to increase crop yields, just by catching up to the rest of the world
Microbiology
Rob Knight - How Microbes Make us Who We Are (TED talk)
A new link between diet, the bugs in your gut and inflammatory disease
Antibiotics, man... we've got some problems
Other
"Your sciencey rocks made my kid cross-eyed" - This hits a little too close to home.
Net neutrality... excellent.