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[profpr]

I finally learned how to use layer mask in Photoshop. Combining the layers now is so much easier. Will be a good help for my new album with the photos from Yucatan and the US SW.

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Pollan I am reading is way too long for the content. And I noticed quite a few factorial errors in it. The C4 plants are not outcompeting C3 because they capture 4 carbon atoms in one "cycle"! But overall I like it as long as I skip over the watery pages, at least I start understanding what constitutes organic produce/farming. Mushrooming experience is described excellent. "If I show you the place I pick'em, I'll have to kill you." Very Russian attitude towards guarding your sacred mushrooming places. Another thing I discovered from this book is that in English dilemma does not mean "choice from two alternatives" anymore. Yak.

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[ssteplana.livejournal.com]

Have you finished the book? So, how organic farming concept correlates with genetically modified food? It is my perception that through cross-opyleniye (forgot the term) almost all crop/veggies/fruit harvest is gen-modified.

[profpr.livejournal.com]

Not finished yet. Reading through. But your point on pollination is something I read in a few papers. Indeed, the genes from "experimental" corn varieties escape from the supposedly safe study fields and are soon found in the regular crops. Europeans are more responsible.