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How The Internet Of Things Could Help Feed The World by Lorin Fries See: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorinfries/2018/08/19/how-the-internet-of-things-could-help-feed-the-world/ There's Never Been A Better Time To Be Part of The Global AgTech Community by Connie Bowen Agriculture is THE world’s largest industry. Period. According to World Wildlife Fund, it employs more than 1 billion people and generates $1.3 trillion dollars worth of food. Agriculture faces perhaps the most challenges moving forward, but it also offers the most potential for innovation to address these global challenges. Agtech investment is exciting today, and it’s only going to continue to grow. Arama Kukutai of Finistere believes that ”As the ramifications of climate change become more pronounced and threaten not just farmer income but food security globally, the agtech investment community will rally behind the innovators who can best support the effort to combat the effects of climate change.” See: https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.forbes.com/sites/conniebowen/2018/08/07/theres-never-been-a-better-time-to-be-part-of-the-global-agtech-community/amp/
The Precision Ag Corner (in New Ag International) > Data Management in Precision Ag. & Precision Ag for Africa See: https://newaginternational.r.worldssl.net/images/PA/PrecisionAg_June18.pdf > Coloured maps in PA See: https://newaginternational.r.worldssl.net/images/PrecisionAg_March2018.pdf > What do sensors tell us about crops? See: https://newaginternational.r.worldssl.net/images/flipbooks/PA-NovDec2017-LR-20N.pdf > When Datanomics meet Agronomics. Report from the New Ag International Conference in Berlin See: https://newaginternational.r.worldssl.net/images/flipbooks/NewAgJuneJuly2017PrecisionAgCorner.pdf > Purpose and applications of geolocation/navigation capabilities See: https://newaginternational.r.worldssl.net/images/PA/PrecisionFarming.pdf > Precision Agriculture: What's behind the name? See: https://newaginternational.r.worldssl.net/images/PA/WhatsBehind_theName.pdf Ecommerce, Genomics, Crop Intelligence: Opportunities for Colombia’s Agtech Entrepreneurs See: https://agfundernews.com/ecommerce-genomics-crop-intelligence-opportunities-for-colombias-agtech-entrepreneurs.html Is St. Louis the Silicon Valley of Agtech? (November 2017) by Louisa Burwood-Taylor and Emma Cosgrove See: https://agfundernews.com/stlouis-silicon-valley-for-agtech.html
Epidemiologists Link DDT From The 1970s To Modern Autism Diagnoses, by Hank Campbell DDT was banned by a politician in the US in 1972 and was banned a few years later in Finland, so how can it be causing autism now? The answer is statistics. The same curve that can show autism is linked to organic food can link autism to anything and if you are at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health you are very much against corporations and in need of a way to get in the New York Times, so a recent paper links DDE, a metabolite of DDT, in the blood of pregnant women to autism. .../... See: https://www.science20.com/hank_campbell/epidemiologists_link_ddt_from_the_1970s_to_modern_autism_diagnoses-233771
Enough of the bee-apocalypse stories (Jacqueline Rowarth, NZ) See: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12108166 The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation See: https://xerces.org/ Anti-livestock rhetoric in wealthy west impacts poor nations by Susan MacMillan See: https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2018/07/anti-livestock-rhetoric-wealthy-west-impacts-poor-nations/ The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners: 1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time. 2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole. 3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. 4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly. 5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future. 6. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating. 7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. 8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. 9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. 10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.) 11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer. 12. Decafalon (n): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. 13. Glibido: All talk and no action. 14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web. 16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
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