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Phylloxera: The American Grape Vine Pest That Almost Ruined My Saturday Nights
Can you imagine a world without French wine? A world without the wines of Champagne, Bordeaux, Burgundy and Provence? A world in which French people don’t look down their nose at the wines of the rest of the world? Is such a world even possible? Well, in the late 19th century this is exactly the… Continue reading
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Trophic shadows and the tyranny of the energy pyramid
Ernest Rutherford, the famous physicist, supposedly claimed that “Science is either physics or stamp collecting”. At the cost of no longer being welcome in the biology department Rutherford was making the point that everything is subject to the laws of physics and ultimately these laws can describe any natural phenomenon. In real life we usually… Continue reading
The Science of Food 