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Unravelling genetic origins from the potato to cinchona

Starting with the humble potato, Nataly Allasi Canales reveals how researchers unearth the genetic origins of modern plant varieties, and explains why their work is so important for biodiversity.

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Active pensioners, blooming gardens

To reach your 70s with over 300,000 Twitter followers or running a music festival is not the stereotypical image of retirement. But does this energetic engagement with life equal happiness?

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What distinguishes the human?

Are we human, or are we just potatoes with feelings?

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Intertwined with air

Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.

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  • Potatoes plus : provide thrills- without frills / Bovril Ltd.
  • Potatoes plus : provide thrills- without frills / Bovril Ltd.
  • Diseased potatoes ... / Andrew Ure.
  • Summer salads and new ways with old potatoes / Stork Margarine Cookery Service.
  • Summer salads and new ways with old potatoes / Stork Margarine Cookery Service.
  • Scouts in a summer camp at Kapellen near Antwerp, peeling potatoes. Photographic postcard, ca. 1951.
  • Scouts in a summer camp at Kapellen near Antwerp, peeling potatoes. Photographic postcard, ca. 1951.
  • Children play a game with potatoes and a rag hanging from the beam. Process print after Erskine Nicol.
  • Nepal; agriculture in the Khumbu, 1986. Growing potatoes at Phortse (altitude 4000 metres). At this altitude, in breathtaking but inhospitable terrain, potatoes are the principle crop of the Sherpas. Phortse is one of the highest permanent village settlements on the journey to Sagarmatha (Mount Everest).
  • Nepal; agriculture in the Khumbu, 1986. Pangboche (altitude 4200 metres), showing the tiny, walled terraced fields on which Sherpas cultivate their staple crops (potatoes, barley, wheat). Potatoes are rarely grown beyond 4000 metres but barley is grown at higher altitudes. Scattered juniper and birch trees share this terrain with sub-alpine grasses. Few people live permanently beyond this village amid the last scattered trees below the treeline.
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