I thought this article was really cool!
National Geo excerpt:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/07/swarms/miller-text/1
The Genius of Swarms
A single ant or bee isn’t smart, but their colonies are. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck routing to military robots.
To find out how, Seeley’s team applied paint dots and tiny plastic tags [...]
Here is a short video from Scotland showing a farm that uses compost and rock powders to get beautiful healthy vegetables. I use lots of rock powders and I thought this was cool!
The rock powder used in the video is basalt which is an igneous (volcanic) rock. I use other rock powders like soft [...]
Hi Everybody,
Recently someone asked a question about organic insecticides and I wrote this response. Enjoy!
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I would be very interested to know what pesticides you use to grow your fruit organically. Thanks.
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Sugar is a nice insecticide.
Insects don’t have a pancreas so when they eat sugar it does not digest,
it ferments. The by-product of fermentation is alcohol [...]
