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Meet Monsanto’s newest vegetables (non GMO!)

February 1, 2014Brian Brinks

This is an interesting article because it points out that Monsanto, whom everyone hates (for all the right reasons I might add), seems to be shying away from GMO’s. Maybe shying away isn’t the correct statement here, but they do seem to be putting some r&d into alternatives. Read the article here on GRIST by Jesse […]

Fracking FAQ: The science and technology behind the natural gas boom

September 18, 2012Brian Brinks

Full article can be found here on Grist …. “Fracking”: It sounds more like a comic-book exclamation (kapow! boom! frack!) than a controversial method for extracting natural gas and oil from rock deep underground. By turns demonized as a catastrophic environmental threat and glorified as a therapy for our foreign oil addiction, fracking has become […]