Great big Fat Nobel Prize!
The Scientists Osamu Shimomura of Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA; Martin Chalfie of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, and Roger Y. Tsien of the University of California,...
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This is a tough time for our country. A lot of people have lost their jobs, almost 600,000 last month alone, (7.6% unemployment at the time I wrote this,) and a lot more people are going to lose their...
View ArticleHow I Thought Of The Obama Garden (and a poll)
I don't usually get too personal in blogs, but there are very personal reasons about how I thought of the Obama Garden.Three weeks ago, I thought we were perfectly secure, economically. Indeed, I was...
View Article623,004 Reasons To Plant A Garden (and a poll)
The number of initial jobless claims was lower than week (ending 2/7) than it was last week, but 623,000 people lost their jobs and filed for benefits last week. In addition, 4.8 million people...
View ArticleTomatoes for Obama Gardeners (Share Your Tomato Wisdom, and a poll)
KetchupophobiaI'm a beginning gardener, and I fear tomatoes.People who grow tomatoes seem like Master Gardeners. Someone who pulls a tomato out of their harvest basket might as well say, "Look upon my...
View Article700,000 Reasons To Plant A Garden, Newspaper Seedling Pots, and a Poll
February private-sector job losses are worse than expected, as expected.In the NYTimes:ADP said private employers cut 697,000 jobs in February compared with a revised 614,000 jobs lost in January. The...
View ArticleThe 8.1% Solution: Multicultural "Companion" Gardening (and a poll)
Unemployment has reached 8.1%, a staggering figure and the highest since 1983.Really, it's even worse than that.When you include people who have stopped looking for work but would like to work, the...
View ArticleHunger in America: A Personal Story (And a Poll)
I have been hungry. There were four months of my life (detailed below) when I had a very small income and (yes, it’s a cliché,) medical bills. Relatives and friends of mine have been hungry. Here, I...
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