American - Scientist | September 27, 1969 -
There is a fundamental and culturally learned power imbalance between men and women, and it follows us into the workplace. The violence born of this imbalance follows us also. We would like to believe that it stops short of following us into the laboratory and into the field - but it does not.
Hope Jahren
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I am not a farmer; I am a researcher who studies the plants that come to your dinner table, which means that I ask questions for a living.
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You can't drive through Iowa and not think about farming: No less than 85 percent of the land in the state is devoted to farms, many of them more than 1,000 acres. This is the place where seeds are sown. It's where farmers grow the corn that will be fed to pigs as grain or fed to you as syrup or fermented to ethanol for your gas tank.
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We must feed, shelter, and nurture one another as our first priority, and to do so, we must avail ourselves of our best technologies, which have always included some type of genetic modification.
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Regardless of politics, our world will continue to change rapidly.
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I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home.
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We must continue as in millennia past, nourishing the future as we feed ourselves and, each year, plant only the very best of what we have collectively engineered.
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There is nothing in the world more perfect than a slide rule. Its burnished aluminum feels cool against your lips, and if you hold it level to the light you can see God's most perfect right angle in each of its corners.
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Even a very little girl can wield a slide rule, the cursor serving as a haft.
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Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us.
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I like weeds and hardy plants.
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I have learned that nothing gets readers so fired up as saying something everyone knows is true.
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