Tuesday August 11th, 2009

The Tomato Famine

Here in the Northeast, we’re experiencing the coldest, wettest and darkest summer in recent memory.  The tomato crops of many farm and home gardens have been decimated by a disease that thrives on just this sort of weather.  The disease is late blight, caused by a water mold named Phytophthora infestans.  The severity and incidence […]

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Thursday May 14th, 2009

The Neo-Luddites

Mankind has really been put in its place over the last 500 years.  Why only the other day, back in 1400, the sun orbited the earth; man was God’s consummate work of art; humans were masters of themselves and the domain God provided for them.  Our secular fall from grace began with Copernicus, who dislodged […]

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