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- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 1 day ago:
My wife has a couple graduate degrees on this subject. This is one that I got to be the unwilling editor on her papers for.
Its a lack of understanding how students need to learn the information: memorization by usage versus memorization by rote.
Memorization by rote: This is the old school method of teaching. You memorize random facts figures with no context or usage. Its a bit of standalone information that is often not useful. Memorization by rote leads to kids that can say all of the letters but not recognize the symbols or associated them with sounds and words.
Memorization by usage: This is a much more effective method to teach. Its also much harder. This requires teaching the concepts and systems and linking the information together. You memorize the same information by repeated usage but it’s in context. It takes a ton more skill to teach this way because you have to engage the student through the entire process, repeatedly.
- Comment on Don't touch my corn asshole..... 2 days ago:
He’s also a dust mop for the warehouse.
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- Comment on Fair's fair. 2 days ago:
The USDA-NASS is responsible for making an estimate of the number of corn cobs in the U.S. Most other countries have similar organizations.
To do so they send surveys out to ask farmers what they think. The farmers answer completely truthfully because lying would inflate the prices they get on their corn cobs.
- Comment on ( ^-^)ノ∠※。.:*:・'°☆ 2 days ago:
doi.org/10.4161/21645698.2014.945883
Here’s a paper discussing the issue.
Corn to teosintes GMO contamination is also huge issue especially in southern states.
20+ years after a failed introduction of GMO RR wheat, they are still finding it in fields.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
A form of sexual dimorphism. Honestly compared to real examples like the angler fish it’s not even that weird.
- Comment on ( ^-^)ノ∠※。.:*:・'°☆ 3 days ago:
The so called terminator gene was developed in and to attempt to limit the spread of GMO genes into the wild populations. It was a USDA-ARS program. Not their best work but it would have prevented today’s clusterfuck of contamination.
- Comment on Gotta commend them for the effort 6 days ago:
When I worked in unloading package trucks in college there was always a few idiots who would ship dangerous stuff in totally unacceptable ways.
That looks like a repackage job. Somebody put an axe into a regular box and shipped it. The axe came cutting out of the box somewhere along the journey. This is the type of repackaging that we would do if it didn’t endanger anyone. We’s also put a no belt sticker on it and put a hold on the shipment until the asshole paid for shipping an dangerous object. Everyone then knew what it was and it was shipped safely.
I once had a box fall off a tier and 10 sharp unsheathed bayonets stabbed into the deck less than 1cm from my foot. Some idiot had stacked a whole bunch of lead bullets for reloading on one side of the box and placed the unsheathed bayonets on top of them at an angle. Since all the weight was on one side, it tipped over off of the stack and fell. The blades came out on on impact and stuck 2cm into the deck next to my foot.
We returned the box to the sender, after using a bunch of bubble wrap and several rolls of clear tape to turn each bayonet into a ball.
- Comment on It's really ugly but it's a sign of a healthy environment for soil microbes. 1 week ago:
Trichoderma is the genus, there is currently 89 different species classified.
That being said, they did use the species that became a primary pathogen as an antifungal for many years. As soon as the species was identified as a primary pathogen the suppliers changed to another related species. They also claimed to have mislabeled the species on what they sold before (bullshit of course).
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 1 week ago:
It tastes like a corny mushroom. Do not try them from a jar. Those taste more like a slimy snot rag.
It’s an obligate parasite that enters the corn plant via tiny wounds when it’s the plant is small. The most common source of wounding is insect damage or wind. Sandy soil + wind creates the highest incidence. Once you find some hotspots it’s easy to find.
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 1 week ago:
Since corn is a critical crop in many regions its one of the most studied species on the planet. Even a post about shitty corn is interesting.
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- Comment on Time to plow 1 week ago:
Nobody spreads corn seed. It needs to be planted at least 1.5" deep.
It needs to be DRILLED in 2-3".
- Comment on Wanna get in shape? Bar bell corn is the answer. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 1 week ago:
I would sent you pictures of it but I don’t save smut to my phone.
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 1 week ago:
It doesn’t just grow on the ears either. It often grows on the stalk or tassel.
Wait a bit until that little fella matures and then produces spores. It will be about 4x the size in those pictures. Bumping into them covers you in dark black spores that sticks around on your clothing.
- Comment on It's really ugly but it's a sign of a healthy environment for soil microbes. 1 week ago:
Damnit I forgot to mention that the trichoderma rot causes the kernals to suffer from premature-germination. The stress causes them to pop off too soon.
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- Comment on A lovely 98 Day variety for your viewing pleasure. 1 week ago:
Not bad for a cell phone picture. Eventually I’m going to get myself a decent camera.
- Comment on The ugly side of corn 1 week ago:
Huitlacoche is quite tasty. I’ve had it several times in Mexico.
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- Comment on Nitrogen fixing corn 1 week ago:
It’s also a myth. Corn doesn’t have the biochemical pathway. It does however produce exudates from the roots that promote nitrogen fixing bacterial in some environments.
In most environments applying these bacteria does jack shit.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
My wife didn’t completely believe how my family treated me growing up. She just couldn’t comprehend the level of assholeness.
So I took her to Christmas with my family once. That’s all it took. She quickly realized that I was barely mentioning some of the larger things they had done. I wasn’t even mentioning all the smaller things.
- Comment on geological contingency plan 3 weeks ago:
Molecular biologist: repeatedly spike their samples and reagents to cause random failures. Eventually lack of sleep from running it “just one more time” will kill them.
