Bio-Based Ideas

I listened to an interesting podcast a few weeks ago and just wanted to share what I learned by listening to "Wissenschaft im Brennpunkt" which translates into "Science in Focus". Today's topic: What is forest agronomy? Following is a partial transcript and summary of this podcast.

On a slightly different angle of the bio-based theme, today's video pick is on "How smart animals are?", a 1 hour video from PBS' NOVAScience, which I have recently become a real fan of. Watch the full episode . See more NOVA scienceNOW.

You may remember that a while ago I blogged about a research group that found a way to produce biogas reactor using the content of a stomachs cow . One of the questions, I had back then was what kinds of bacteria were in the cow's stomach fluids? Today, we'll look at a  massive Science article from January 28 with the title "Metagenomic Discovery of Biomass-Degrading Genes and Genomes from Cow Rumen" from the Rubin Lab with Matthias Hess and Alexander Sczyrba as the primary authors recently hit the science world, and gives us that answer.

TED talks are ever so inspiring. Earlier in the year , Sylvia Earle was speaking about the need to protect our ocean's resources. It appears that ocean protection is getting more on the radar screen of the general public. Today's post features yet another talk with a very inspiring story on protecting our ocean's resources.

As you all know, I have grown quite fond of TED talks. Today, I found Brian Skerry's tells a very visual story of the ocean - both good and bad. Although it's a bit long, I encourage everyone to watch and reflect on the talk.