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A sense of perspective... We forget how flippin' huge our economy is . This map may help. [click on map for larger image] By linking G...

Why they invented "yadda yadda"... Behold the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island. [via Metafilter]

Are you doing your part?... Americans are only 40th in the world in alcohol consumption . Some of you obviously aren't trying. Actually...

Inquiring minds want to know... It's kinda like Googling yourself for farmers. Look up your entry in the EWG database. Regardless of ...

I hope they use it for football scholarships... The USDA has made subsidy data much more personal . It's not just wealthy individuals wh...

The Iowa situation... Gets even more byzantine. Rudy Giuliani: Six visits to the state show that Giuliani at least knows where Iowa is. But...

Send him the $100... Farm Journal's $100 Ideas oughta include farmers from all over. Like this Chinese dude who drank beer just to hel...

Feel first, think later.. A recent report in the journal Science corroborates something most of us have suspected for some time. We are bas...

You are here.... An atlas of the universe . For when really need to get away. [via Futurismic]

It's not about insurance... Masked by the political persiflage of the '08 Campaign is the quiet realization that the health care iss...

Technology responds... Science is not the awe-inspiring tool many of us grew up believing in. Not that it has changed, but I suspect the m...

No wonder she was crying... Observers close to the action at Paris Hilton's court appearance were struck by her tearful denunciation of ...

Paris Hilton's cell phone... May not work well in some rural areas - especially Downstate Illinois. And if landline companies have thei...

Any minute now... A breathless announcement of a cellulosic ethanol breakthrough . At a Brazilian ethanol conference June 4-5, Brazilian gov...

Uh-oh... Guiliani is skipping Iowa. So is McCain . Farm policy may never see the light of day in this presidential campaign. I wonder what ...

What do you get when... You cross Star Trek with J. R. R. Tolkein ? It's not pretty.

Go figure... The livestock industry asked some economists to estimate the effects of letting ethanol tax credits and tariffs expire in 2008....

The precedent problem... There are many cattlemen in disagreement with the voluntary BSE testing appeal decision by the USDA. One is our o...

The sausage recipe... Interesting commentary on how the farm bill process might develop. “So this is a huge deal. If Pelosi blocks amendmen...

How we got here... A tragic and touching reminder of the the kind of people who made the Midwest . "Went to Kansas" - from diarie...