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The GMO debate needs more people like Pollan and Ronald.

The GMO debate needs more people like Pollan and Ronald.

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These days Google+ gets overwhelmed with dodgy blogs lacking any kind of credible backing that are using fear to influence the GMO debate. Between all this noise it is great (thank you +The New Yorker) that some people, even if they are from opposite sides, talk to each other on a more mature level.

A must read article ( also do read the referenced articles ) for all that do engage in the debate here online!

#gmo #monsanto #science

Michael Pollan and Pamela Ronald Debate G.M.O. Food – Peacefully
Michael Pollan told the audience, “If anyone can make the case for this technology, it’s Pam Ronald.”

Mounting and reading an Encrypted Sparsebundle image (OSX) keeps on making small file changes and thus triggers Google Drive syncing.

Mounting and reading an Encrypted Sparsebundle image (OSX) keeps on making small file changes and thus triggers Google Drive syncing.

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If anyone has an idea why this is happening and if I can stop it let me know. If possible I'd keep it on r+w mounting as it contains some text files that I now and then have to change.

#osx #googledrive #encrypted #sparsebundle

OSX Encrypted Sparsebundle Image keeps making small file changes
I’ve created an encrypted sparsebundle image to store some files that I want to keep safe in my Google Drive. However, I noticed, that even when just mounting this image and reading files (simple text files) the Google Drive application is constantly uploading “changes”. Why is this? I just perform a reading on files? More importantly, is there a way of stopping this? There is no point to have to re-upload constantly blocks that in essence didn’t…

Sequencing sewers to detect health fluctuations, sounds awesome!

Sequencing sewers to detect health fluctuations, sounds awesome!

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"'Smart toilets and sewer sensors are coming'" http://feedly.com/e/HJV0MazF

‘Smart toilets and sewer sensors are coming’ (Wired UK)
Advances in genomics are moving the bioengineering laboratory into the city sewers. In 2014, our wastewater systems will become smart, with automated sampling and lab-on-a-chip biosensors