Openings for Postdoc Position at Oxford

For doctors looking for research in the field of demography and with a constitution for travel, a job opportunity: The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing is seeking a quantitative researcher to work with Dr George Leeson in collaboration with Dr Mike Bonsall (Department of Zoology) on the Oxford Martin Future of Food Programme. Main responsibilities will […]

“The New Horse-Powered Farm”

In central New York State, as well as all over the country, an unlikely revival is happening  in sustainably-minded agriculture; the return of work horses and draft mules on the American farm. A recent write-up in the New York Times entitled Farm Equipment That Runs on Oats featured a farm in Ghent, NY, run by a man […]

EU Bans Three Pesticides Thought to be Bee-Killers`

For years researchers and beekeepers alike have been trying to make sense of a phenomenon of massive bee die-offs otherwise known as “colony collapse disorder” that has been occurring on a world-wide scale. Many hypothesis have been given as the reason; a fungal disease, a virus, some new and unknown pathogen, and of course, pesticides. […]