Good piece here from the always incisive Carl Zimmer on the recent (not-very-surprising) news of weeds developing resistance to Monsanto's widely-used Roundup herbicide (so-called "superweeds"):
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/05/04/how-to-make-a-superweed/
In turn he links to this NY Times piece on the same subject:
http://tinyurl.com/2alf6n3
"Our sense of wonder grows exponentially; the greater the knowledge, the deeper the mystery."
-- E.O. Wilson
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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