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Star Date: 2010.01.25.0800
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2009 was the second hottest year on record, but urban green spaces might be bad for global warming. Blueberries help memory formation, if you expect a product to work you will think you feel it working right after taking it, slime molds make good maps for wireless communication networks, asteroids pass the Earth and pick up quakes, and NASA launches WISE spacecraft to look for near-earth objects with infrared camera.
Interview with Pam Ronald and Raoul Adamchak on combining Genetic Engineering with Organic Agriculture. They are co-authors of the book, Tomorrow’s Table, and my review of their book is available here.
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Rotating Bumper theme = Dune by Toto.
Main theme is Visions and Miracles I all joy wills eternity, composed by Chris Theofanidis, performed by the String Orchestra of New York City (SONYC). Published by Albany Records.
This episode is the first one to broadcast over WSUM in Madison, WI.
[...] Click here to go to the site and listen to Episode 79. The interview starts at about 24:00 into the show. It was pre-recorded because the air date, January 25, was the day Anastasia and I had dinner with Michael Pollan. On that note, my guest for this week’s show (Feb 1) was Anastasia Bodnar herself, and we talked some more about the Pollan dinner date and about his new book, Food Rules. I’ll be sure to put up a link when that episode is online later this week. And when I know in advance about future interviews about genetic engineering, I might put out a call for some ideas for questions. Vandana Shiva is coming to Madison in March… [...]