Our Daily Bread 12 - The inside story http://ow.ly/sT1F30lmWqK That kernel of wheat isn't actually a seed or a berry, at least not to a botanist. I have no intention of getting into the whole pointless is it a fruit or a vegetable debate, so lets

Our Daily Bread 11 - It's not natural http://ow.ly/dVGu30lkIs3 Wheat has a hugely diverse genetic background, being made up of three different species, and genetic diversity is what allows breeders to find the traits they need to produce wheats tha

Our Daily Bread 10 - Dwarf wheat: On the shoulders of a giant http://ow.ly/GMGm30lkIm5 Norman Borlaug created the wheats that created the Green Revolution. They had short stems that could carry heavy ears of wheat, engorged by loads of fertiliser.

Our Daily Bread 09 - Red Fife http://ow.ly/U7aJ30liK2e �For more than 40 years, one wheat variety dominated the Canadian prairies. Red Fife -- the red-seeded wheat grown by David Fife, a Scottish immigrant -- gave the highest yields of the best qual

Our Daily Bread 08 - Nikolay Ivanovich Vavilov http://ow.ly/nxbJ30liJUz This short episode fails to do justice to the man who, more than anyone, first grasped the importance of knowing where and how wheat arose. It does, however, explain why Vavilo

Our Daily Bread 07 - Bake like an Egyptian http://ow.ly/6CJ430lfJ7K Kamut® is a modern wheat -- registered and trademarked in 1990 -- with an ancient lineage. The word is ancient Egyptian, and the hieroglyphics may literally mean "Soul of the Earth

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Switching between multiple open windows in the same application – ldstephens

Learn something new and useful almost every day.

It was really good while it lasted; ...

It was really good while it lasted; thanks Ryan.

Our Daily Bread 06 - Hulled wheats http://ow.ly/hjYO30lfIYw Farro is not spelt. It isn't einkorn or emmer either. Farro "is an Italian ethnobotanical concept".

Our Daily Bread 05 - At last: agriculture http://ow.ly/tA7x30lfEr1 Very quick or slightly slower, in just a few hundred years, domesticated wheat spreads all over the Fertile Crescent.

Our Daily Bread 04 - What exactly is wheat? http://ow.ly/XhGe30lfEid How, and when, did modern wheat arise from its the wild ancestors?

Continuing my daily podcast series, Our Daily Bread 03 - Crumbs; the oldest bread http://ow.ly/krTX30lfEc5 Bread, the archaeologists suggest, is not the product of a “civilized society” but perhaps a precursor to it.

A thousand little suns.

Our Daily Bread 02; Boil in the Bag http://ow.ly/WIsU30leAFe When did we start to eat wheat? "There's no proof yet that the Neanderthal in Shanidar actually swallowed the porridge, but he definitely put it in his mouth."

My contribution to the Dog Days of Podcasting, every day in August. http://ow.ly/luL830leqsV Our Daily Bread 01; The Abundance of Nature Jack Harlan's experiments on the slopes of the Karacadağ mountains in Turkey offer a perfect gateway to this exp

One Foot Tsunami: An Idiotic Idea Doesn’t Deserve Branding This Good

The Old Reader: behind the scenes - Thanks, Google!

While there is good stuff in there about #RSS, this is the bit that, to me, matters more:But online publishing isn’t supposed to be easy. And being an informed citizen isn’t supposed to be easy, either. The idea that we just casually check our phone every hour or so and Google, Twitter, or Facebook would give us a quick dose of everything we need to read is a fantasy. 

Stepping back from POSSE

I like that Chris would prefer a ...

I like that Chris would prefer a pig without tags, but my suspicion is that by the time the tag becomes important for tracking, the pig is well past caring.

Episode 01 of my contribution to Dog ...

Episode 01 of my contribution to Dog Days of Podcasting is up. The Abundance of Nature

I’m going to be exploring the history of wheat and bread every day in August.