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1. ESCAPE ARTIST: Trump's China blaming and conspiracy theories have undermined the real debate about the labs that handle the world's deadliest viruses

Author

Jacobsen, Rowan

Subjects
Viral research -- Research -- Safety and security measures, Disease transmission -- Research, Coronaviruses -- Research -- Safety and security measures, Biosafety -- Management -- Research -- Safety and security measures, Research institutes -- Safety and security measures -- Research, Conspiracy theories -- Evaluation -- Research -- Safety and security measures, Company business management, General interest, Political science, Social sciences
Abstract

FEW PEOPLE in the United States had heard of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)--the high-security biolab in Wuhan, China, that does cutting-edge research on coronaviruses--until mid-April, when the Trump [...]

Published
2020

2. Designer genes

Author

Jacobsen, Rowan

Subjects
Human genetic engineering -- Health aspects -- Forecasts and trends, Preimplantation diagnosis -- Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, Political science, Social sciences
Abstract

Fixing the human genome is the easy part. The hard part is knowing when to stop. THE FIRST STEP IS a no-brainer. Say you are one of the tens of [...]

Published
2017

3. Empty nest syndrome: starving puffins, stray whales, invading sailfish: something is very wrong on the East Coast

Author

Jacobsen, Rowan

Subjects
Eastern United States -- Environmental aspects, Hot weather -- Environmental aspects, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects, Puffins -- Food and nutrition, Ocean temperature -- Environmental aspects, General interest, Political science, Social sciences
Abstract

The new poster child for climate change had his coming-out party in June 2012, when Petey the puffin chick first went live into thousands of homes and schools all over [...]

Published
2014

4. Forgotten fruit: before there were factory orchards full of patent-protected galas and fujis, there was the Blake. The Queen's pocket. The Esopus Spitzenburg. John Bunker is on a mission to bring back the apples that made America great

Author

Jacobsen, Rowan

Subjects
Grafting, Business owners -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Practice, Apple -- Varieties, General interest, Political science, Social sciences
Abstract

Every fall at Maine's Common Ground Country Fair, the Lollapalooza of sustainable agriculture, John Bunker sets out a display of eccentric apples. Last September, once again, they covered every possible [...]

Published
2013

5. The rockweed rush: corporate harvesters are ripping up native seaweed--for use in everything from dog food to fracking

Author

Jacobsen, Rowan

Subjects
Biologists -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Practice, Kelps -- Protection and preservation -- Supply and demand -- Usage, General interest, Political science, Social sciences
Abstract

ROBIN SEELEY SAW them back in the summer of 2008, in Cobscook Bay, a pristine Maine estuary near the Canadian border. 'All of a sudden this small fleet of blue [...]

Published
2016

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