Wednesday, 25 August 2021

Today, he sits, his name truncated; his prospects nil

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Tony Benn has risen in place. He now sits high on the Opposition backbench, In 1959, he was known as 'Anthony Wedgewood Benn', soon ...
Monday, 23 August 2021

As much as a third of all the greenhouse gases that human activity has added to the atmosphere can be attributed to the saw and the plow

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A diverse enough polyculture of grasses can withstand virtually any shock and in some places will produce in a year nearly as much total bi...
Sunday, 22 August 2021

Small farms are actually more productive than big farms;

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It's simply more cost-efficient to buy from one thousand-acre farm than ten hundred-acre farms. That's not because those big farms a...
Saturday, 21 August 2021

All the usable nitrogen on earth had at one time been fixed by soil bacteria living on the roots of leguminous plants

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Until a German chemist named Fritz Haber figured out how to turn this trick in 1909, all the usable nitrogen on earth had at one time been f...
Friday, 20 August 2021

There are forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn

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The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation compr...
Saturday, 31 July 2021

Scholars customarily overvalue the influence of historical truth as against historical myth

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Scholars customarily overvalue the influence of historical truth as against historical myth. Thomas Innes, by exact scholarship, revalued th...
Saturday, 10 July 2021

All the myths of England come not from the Anglo-Saxons but from the Celts

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For what people believe is true is a force, even if it is not true. Myth may be a driving force: such as the myth of inevitability, encounte...