In the past week I have heard far more about Golden Rice than I had imagined I would. I first read of the vandalism of a test plot of Golden Rice in the most ironic of ways… I saw the news of it tweeted by Toby Bruce, one of the researchers at Rothamsted. Sorry to hear of @RiceResearch golden rice… Read More
The Akihabara area of Tokyo is also called the electric city and our friends Yoshiyuki & Tomoe included it on our quick tour of Tokyo. Although you are immediately struck by the bright colors (and bright lights at night), the area gets it’s name from all the shops that sell and fix the latest in electronics. But as Japanese electronics grew,… Read More
This weekend if you were watching “This Week in AgriBusiness” on TV, you may have done a double take as this blog was featured there alongside Katie Pinke’s The Pinke Post, Leah Beyer’s Beyer Beware and Aimee Whetstine’s Everyday Epistle. If you didn’t have a chance to catch it, you can watch Kristin Decker and Max Armstrong talk with us ag bloggers from… Read More
I recently read an article about how teaching is harder than it looks. It was a great article. But I have a really easy way to help inspire kids to read. Here’s the step-by-step: Find a teacher who is really committed to teaching. Who spends a good bit of summer “vacation” coming up with new ways to inspire her students…. Read More
Last Thursday, like thousands of other women from all around the country, I headed to BlogHer ’13 — the leading conference for women bloggers looking to network with their peers and chart a course of growth and development for themselves. To say it was a great experience is an understatement. I went for work, but was also able to find… Read More
Lots of things I saw in Japan were unique or exciting, but this was by far the most surprising. Those mangoes are definitely the prettiest I have ever seen and they certainly grabbed my eye while my nephew and I were shopping for snacks one night last week when we were in Hiroshima. The price tag warranted me taking a… Read More
