Orts #989
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell
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- Maine was once a land of shepherds -
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/travel/lens-sheep-island-maine.html
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We are in the war zone against this disease.
-- George Sundin, a fruit-tree pathologist at Michigan State University, referring to fire blight, a disease of apple trees
https://www.northernexpress.com/news/feature/we-are-in-a-war-zone-against-this-disease/
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- The first use of corn may have been for an early form of liquor. -
“We hypothesize that maize stalk juice just may have been the original use of early domesticated maize plants, at a time when the cobs and seeds were essentially too small to be of much dietary significance. Humans are good at fermenting sugary liquids into alcoholic drinks.”
http://news.unm.edu/news/releases-20200601-6803126