Tag: Fruit
With fewer animals to spread their seeds, plants could have trouble...
Evan Fricke, Rice University; Alejandro Ordonez, Aarhus University; Haldre Rogers, Iowa State University, and Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University
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The magnificent history of the maligned and misunderstood fruitcake
Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
Nothing says Christmas quite like a fruitcake – or, at the very least, a...
A nutrition report card for Americans: Dark clouds, silver linings
Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University
Many of the latest findings on the American diet are not encouraging. Almost half of...
Love avocados? Thank the toxodon
Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
Given avocado’s popularity today, it’s hard to believe that we came close to not having them in our supermarkets at...
American farmers want trade partners not handouts – an agricultural economist...
Amanda M. Countryman, Colorado State University
The Trump administration plans to give American farmers and ranchers hurt by the current trade war US$12 billion in...
EXPLORING NATURE
From ancient texts to modern practices, Daoism provides a profound framework...
Michael Naparstek, University of Tennessee
Daoism, China’s indigenous religion, is one of the country’s five officially recognized religions today....
