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For Me Science Is Not Different From Art, Except In The One Small, Crucial Detail That Experiments Speak Their Own Truths, Not Ours.

We Are Sliding Back Into A Dark Era, And There Seems Little We Can Do About It. I Am Profoundly Depressed At Just How Difficult It Has Become Merely To Get A Realistic Conversation Started On Issues Such As Climate Change Or Genetically Modified Organisms.

We Have Domesticated Crops Over A Very Long Period Of Time, Like Tens Of Thousands Of Years. And Crops Get - Seeds Get Carried. Sometimes, If They're Very Small Seeds, They Get Scattered Off Trucks. Pollen Travels.

We Have Six-and-a-half-billion People On The Planet, Going Rapidly Towards Seven. We're Going To Need A Lot Of Inventiveness About How We Use Water And Grow Crops.

In Agriculture, People Have Taken Wild Plants That Can't Be Eaten By People - And Turned Them Into Wonderful Food Sources. And That's Because Genomes Can Change, And People Working With Plants Have Picked Mutations. Mutations Are Nothing More Than Genetic Changes.