Easily taxed grains were crucial to the birth of the first states
The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to the emergence of large societies, rather than agriculture generally ⌘ Read more

Chinese Spies Are Trying To Reach UK Lawmakers Via LinkedIn, MI5 Warns
MI5 has warned U.K. lawmakers that Chinese intelligence operatives are using LinkedIn and recruitment fronts to target them for information gathering and long-term cultivation. PBS reports: Writing to lawmakers, House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said a new MI5 “espionage alert” warned that Chinese nationals were “using LinkedIn pro … ⌘ Read more

Gene variant that protects against norovirus spread with arrival of agriculture, prehistoric DNA reveals
The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter vomiting, researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University report after analyzing DNA from over 4,300 prehistoric individuals and cultivating “mini guts.” ⌘ Read more

China’s rising meat demand drives Brazilian soybean farming and resource use
Behind a steak served in China, there is often a soybean cultivation in Brazil. A new study, published in Nature Food, presents a snapshot of an increasingly interconnected and fragile food system. ⌘ Read more

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Cultivating a successful engineering culture with Platform Engineering
Community post by Or Weis Discover how leveraging a policy-as-code platform helps foster an engineering culture focused on efficient authorization and access control. Platform engineering is rooted in a fundamental principle: cultivating a culture within development… ⌘ Read more

Reflecting on the success of Kubernetes Community Days Islamabad 2024
KCD post by Saim Safdar, CNCF Ambassador In August 2020, I embarked on a journey to establish Cloud Native Islamabad with a vision to cultivate local communities, foster knowledge sharing, and bridge the gap between international and local communities… ⌘ Read more

Is ditching the city for a country vineyard as romantic as it sounds?
Leaving the city and buying a vineyard in the country sounds romantic – the fresh air, drinking wine from the grapes you’ve cultivated, working your own hours, and raising a family in wide open spaces. But does the reality live up to the narrative? ⌘ Read more

When first grown in Australia, this exotic tropical fruit was little-known. Now farmers can’t keep up with demand
In the depths of South America’s Amazon Basin, the achachairú, a highly prized tropical fruit, has been cultivated for generations. But it’s on the side of the world, in North Queensland, that the fruit is grown on the greatest scale. ⌘ Read more

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Peter Saint-Andre: Cultivating Curiosity
In my drive to hold fewer opinions (or at least hold them less strongly), for a while I tried to cultivate a healthy skepticism about things I believe - for instance, by attempting to question one opinion every week. This didn’t work, at least for me, because it felt too negative. Instead, now I’m working to cultivate curiosity. Here are a few thoughts on the process…. ⌘ Read more

** Forth, a tool for cultivating community **
I watch most of the recordings of the Forth2020’s Zoom chats. A topic that comes up from time to time is how to get more folks interested in Forth — especially younger folks. In my weird little corner of the internet I can say that there are certainly young folks interested in Forth!

I wonder if the issue at play is less one of interest, and more one of cross c … ⌘ Read more

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