Blogroll
Here, you can find selected blogs, podcasts, and websites about biotechnology, agriculture, and science in general that I’ve found to be interesting or amusing. Are there any sites that you’d recommend? Share your ideas in the comments.
Biotech
- Biofortified A group blog devoted to providing factual information and fostering discussion about plant genetics, especially genetic engineering.
- Tomorrow’s Table On the marriage between biotechnology and organic methods.
- GMO Pundit The Pundit compiles news and research about biotechnology.
- James and the Giant Corn James, a PhD student in Plant Biology at Berkeley, writes about plants, farming, and saving the world through agriculture.
- GMO Africa News about GMOs in Africa.
- Beyond the Rows Monsanto’s blog, addressing issues related to Monsanto, its business, and technology in agriculture.
- PIPRA (Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture) Supporting agricultural innovation for both humanitarian and small-scale commercial purposes by bringing together intellectual property from a number of sources and making this technology available to innovators around the world.
- American Biotechnologist Sponsored by Biorad, the goal of this blog is to encourage productivity of the US biotechnology sector. Their sister site is Canadian Biotechnologist.
Crop genetics and biodiversity
- Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog The resource for news about agricultural biodiversity.
- The Fruit Blog Everything you wanted to know about fruit and fruit breeding.
Science
- Inoculated Mind Karl Haro von Mogel, a PhD student in Plant Breeding Genetics at UW-Madison, writes about science and culture.
- Skeptiod Critical analysis of pseudoscience, science, media, and more.
- Cheshire Insects, evolution, and random splatters from the windshield of the blogosphere.
Growing food plants
- Edible Landscaping Rosalind Creasy presents excellent advice on turning your lawn into food. Includes gorgeous photography and tasty recipes.
Cooking
- Bitten Mark Bittman, my favorite flexitarian and author of How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, provides commentary and recipies.
- Ethicurean Proponents of SOLE food. Not always science based, but always interesting.
- Spicy Food Scott Roberts reviews of hot sauces and chiles from around the world. Yum!
- Great Taste Steve Boss interviews people about food, local cooking, and more.
Humor, satire, webcomics
- Suicide Food At once hilarious and sad, Suicide Food collects images of animals leading themselves to slaughter at the businesses they “work” for.
- xkcd A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
- Dinosaur Comics It’s about dinosaurs, what else do you need to know?
Politics, religion, etc.
- Quiche Moraine Musings from Mike Haubrich and friends about science, politics, religion, and more.
