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Baba Tahir (ca. 1000-1060 AD) of Hamadan (Hemedan, Ekbatan in Median era) is one of the very first poets in the East to write rubaiyats. Little is known of the circumstances of Baba Tahir’s birth and death. Baba Tahir’s rusticity and mastery of both Kurdish (Lekí dialect), Persian (and Arabic) have rendered his works unusually…

GMO Crops Mean More Herbicide, Not Less

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By Beth Hoffman: Forbes Over the past 15 years, farmers around the world have planted ever larger tracts of genetically engineered crops. According to the USDA, in 2012 more than 93 percent of soy planted was “herbicide tolerant,” engineered to withstand herbicides (sold by the same companies who patent and sell the seeds). Likewise, 73 percent of all corn…

Hawaiians fight back against GMO experiments

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By John Upton The state of Hawaii has become a lot like the island of Dr. Moreau. Except that instead of Dr. Moreau — the mad scientist in H.G. Wells’s 1896 novel who vivisected animals into beast-people — Hawaii is ruled by the GMO industry. Shutterstock: The Island of Dr. Monsanto. Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences, Syngenta, DuPont Pioneer, and BASF…

The Dark Day

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From the GazetteLive: It was a day that has gone down in Teesside folklore, indeed it has taken on legendary status, a day that would forever be remembered as The Dark Day. Today, July 2, marks the 45th anniversary of this event. So it is timely that we have a look back at what some…

Researchers to analyse sustainability of wild caught fish

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NORWAY Tuesday, July 02, 2013, 23:10 (GMT + 9) In the course of the next three years researchers from three countries will analyse variables related to sustainability of wild caught fish. The idea is that everything from fuel consumption and economic considerations to the impact on local communities will be calculated, as will the welfare of…

Freeman’s Trade and Craft Guild whose history dates back to the 1450’s still exists in Durham

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A Short History of Durham City Freemen The Freemen of Durham today has eight trade guilds or companies. There were sixteen but eight have ceased to survive. The remaining guilds are the Barbers, Butchers, Cordwainers, Curriers, Drapers, Joiners, Masons and Plumbers. The oldest recorded, now defunct, was the Weavers Guild whose records go back to…

Are we alone?

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As previously posted, new observational techniques have allowed us to discover thousands of planets outside of our solar system. In an article in the Oxford University Press, David Wilkinson, a christian theologian and astrophysicist, reveals the science behind their discovery and muses on what impact exra-terrestrial life might have on religion: First, a star should…

New Model of Organic Farming Sprouting in Chinese Suburbs

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By Wan Su: Caixin Online Farmers are contracting with customers to provide a year’s worth of produce, an approach one academic says could be viable. (Beijing) – A new model of locally organized organic farming has taken root in Beijing and Shanghai in recent years, and an academic says it could be a viable way…

Microbes to be ‘last survivors’ on future Earth

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From an article by Rebecca Morelle, Science reporter, BBC World Service: The last surviving creatures on Earth will be tiny organisms living deep underground, according to scientists. Researchers used a computer model to assess our planet’s fate billions of years from now. They found that as the Sun becomes hotter and brighter, only microbes would…

Poetry collections yield many jewels

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