A Litre o’ Carbon
It’s been a while but I took a hiatus to complete an MBA. Anyways… In recent years, verbiage such as “carbon,” “climate change,” and “emissions” has become pretty common. Actually, …
Biotechnology
Blockchain in Digital Marketing, Agriculture, & Science
This post is a bit different, but it’s a good excuse to formulate my thoughts around a topic that’s been on my mind for a while: blockchains. This is in …
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Organic GMOs & Other Sins
What’s your preference: Food that is organic, or not organic? Genetically modified (engineered), or not? How about neither genetically modified nor organic? What about both organic AND genetically modified?? The …
How are crops “made”?
A brief overs-simplified description of plant breeding for the non-specialist When driving past vast fields of purple or yellow this time of the year, do you ever wonder where those …
Building Blocks: Toys or Tech?
I decided to write this post after back-tracking several times with other post drafts, and realizing it was always to describe a smaller part of a greater process. There are …
Tiny Transcript, Huge Impact
Alltech, a Kentucky-based company aiming to improve agricultural sustainability via biotechnologies, hosts a competition each year called the Alltech Young Scientist competition, for both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Submissions …
Oil tell you all about it (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 1, we looked at the fundamental underlying structures of fats & oils, and naming conventions. Now, we’ll explore how this is relevant in a more practical sense. First, …
Oil tell you all about it (Part 1 of 2)
A few decades ago, low fat diets were all the craze. From what I can tell, it the trend was based on a partial truth that aimed to eliminate what …
A microessay-turned-poem
Recently, I submitted an entry to a microessay competition, limited to 150 characters, and responding the questions, “Should society trust science? Why, or why not?” (https://crastina.se/the-crastina-microessay-competition-2020/). For some reason when …
Nerd Art
I’m planning to do a full in-depth post on each of these, but here’s a teaser in the meantime. I made these for the purpose of entering a science graphic …