Here’s this week’s compendium. This week…
1. Treehugger pointed to new data favourably comparing the yield from organic agriculture with that from non-organic agriculture [1]. The former’s bigger in a drought.
2. still talking organics, I liked an old Nutrition Diva piece titled Are Organic Foods Worth the Cost? [2]. Very sensible.
3. still talking eating, recent research confirms that a little dirt’s a good thing – because colonisation with a variety of microbes from early childhood appears important for balanced immunologic development [3]. Yep.
4. Meander Valley Radio, a community station, began broadcasting [4]. Also its home page has a link for internet streaming.
5. a US study showed best-performing nursing homes are sued only marginally less than worst-performing ones [5]. Which, interestingly, demonstrates that litigation doesn’t occur rationally.
6. I discovered bicycletutor.com which has 48 bike maintenance video tutorials [6a, 6b]. A picture’s worth…
7. I learnt what an aptronym is [7]. Did you know of this word – before now?
8. I read of how to hack any elevator to go direct to your floor without stopping [8]. Worth knowing.
Finally, I wish you, dear Farmdoc’s Blog readers, a wonderful week.
