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Marathon Man
By LUIGI GUARINO | Director of Science and Programs
Quick, who won the marathon at the London Olympics? Come on, it was only a couple of weeks ago. No? Well, don't worry, I can't remember either. So here's an easier question. Who...
24 Sep 2012
24 Sep 2012
The Individual Mandate to Conserve Crop Diversity
Luigi Guarino
The US Affordable Care Act has proved complicated, divisive and controversial, but it will help to protect people against disease and medical misfortune. The world’s crops have the same sort of health problems....
29 Jun 2012
29 Jun 2012
Genebanks Meet Donors, Live Happily Ever After
Luigi Guarino
I’m not saying for a moment that the world of crop diversity conservation is anything like a screwball comedy. But I do sometimes wish meet-cutes happened in that world as Billy Wilder would have written them.
A...
26 Jun 2012
26 Jun 2012
Let Them Eat Quinoa Cake
Luigi Guarino
Getting a chenopodiaceous Andean pseudo-cereal on a coffee shop menu is as difficult as it sounds. My friend Stefano Padulosi is endearingly self-effacing about this achievement in a recent blog post extolling the...
20 Jun 2012
20 Jun 2012
