Sheep Mountain

June 26, 2011

I celebrated the Aestival solstice last Tuesday with a brief stop at the turnout where the road up Sheep Mountain in the Badlands National Park turns into a track for four-wheel drive vehicles only. We were in a mini-van and with a thunderstorm already visible across the prairie to the west, it seemed [...]

Let's Get Small

June 19, 2011

My friend Mike from Edinburgh writes expressing some concern about nanomaterials in food. I blogged about nanotechnology over a year ago, but Mike has a question that may be of more general interest.

Some of my colleagues are concerned about the welfare implications for lab animals used in testing for such risks, and we [...]

Wieners on Parade

June 12, 2011

I was sitting in the Missoula airport this morning at about 4:45 AM waiting for my flight home from the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society meeting when I saw this headline flash across the video screen: “Famous wiener caught in a hot dog war.” My first thought was to assume that this [...]

She's Hot

June 5, 2011

Hot and wet. Diane was not looking forward to another year of hanging out at the Allen Street Market on Wednesday afternoons, waiting for Thornapple CSA members to come by and pick up their shares. We’ve already had a week of August temperatures here in June this year. And it has been pretty [...]