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Africa’s Oldest DNA Is Helping Address Science’s Racial Bias | Wired
PHOTOGRAPH: MIRAGEC/GETTY IMAGES Human history is written in DNA. Where our ancestors lived and who they loved—the story is right there if we can see into their genes. The trouble is that the ravages of climate and time degrade DNA, … Continue reading
A Beginner’s Guide To Buying Great Coffee
The first 1000 people to use this link will get 30% off an annual Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/jameshoffmann05211 Let me know if this is useful! Learn more about tasting coffee: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx… Chapter timecodes: 0:00 Intro to the series & overview … Continue reading
35 Informative Maps People Shared On This Group That Might Change Your Perspective On Things (New Pics) | Bored Panda
Liucija Adomaite and Justinas Keturka #2 The Baltic Way. On 23 August 1989, Two Million People Joined Their Hands To Form A Human Chain Spanning 675.5 Km Across The Three Baltic States. The Protest Was Against The Soviet Occupation, … Continue reading
Tasting The Lost Species That Might Save Coffee
The new paper, from April 2021: “Arabica-like flavour in a heat-tolerant wild coffee species” – https://www.nature.com/articles/s4147… Finding Stenophylla (2020 full paper): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/… Kew Science: https://www.kew.org/science CIRAD: https://www.cirad.fr/en/our-research/… University of Greenwich Research: https://www.gre.ac.uk/research Thank you to Kew and Dr Aaron Davis … Continue reading
Beyond the Gardens: The Forgotten Home of Coffee
Coffee is one of the world’s favourite drinks, one of the most important commercial crop-plants, and the second most valuable international commodity; Arabica coffee is considered to produce the finest coffee beans. A study conducted by scientists at the Royal … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 – The Food Programme, Fresh Grounds: The Search for the World’s Rarest Coffee
Dan Saladino meets the plant hunters looking for the world’s forgotten coffee varieties. Source: BBC Radio 4 – The Food Programme, Fresh Grounds: The Search for the World’s Rarest Coffee
What identical twins separated at birth teach us about genetics – BBC REEL
t’s one of biology’s biggest questions: is it nature or nurture that makes us who we are? Now, thanks to twin studies, scientists like Dr Nancy Segal may just have some answers. By studying identical twins separated at birth scientists … Continue reading
Why Are There No Tornadoes In Europe? | Answers With Joe
[…] Anybody who grew up in the Midwest is familiar with the threat of tornadoes, but why are tornadoes so prevalent in the American Midwest and not other places in the world? Today we talk with Pecos Hank to learn … Continue reading
