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Pre-holiday diets are an opportunity for change
With Halloween over, many of us are in the throes of pre-holiday diets. Good thing, too.
More than just “cows and plows”
The groundwork to help close the huge gap between what we should know about agriculture, compared to what we actually do know,...
The electorate needs to know farmers are also pro-environment
In these early days after the federal election, there’s a continuous line of fingers wagging at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, telling him he...
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Early sippy cups may have help hasten population growth
Q. What amazing feat did Apollo 8 achieve seven months before Apollo 11’s historic lunar landing? And what little-known part did astronaut Jim Lovell’s...
Today’s language has a real courtship with Shakespeare
Q. A riddle for you: It resembles a baked potato, with 22 symmetrical tentacle-like appendages sprouting from its nose. The wiggly, fleshly nose-fingers are...
Beyond a delicious beverage, teabags a good monitoring tool
Q. With trouble brewing over carbon emissions in the Arctic, how might the humble teabag help determine the severity of the problem?
