All posts in September 2024

Anne in the drawing represent a collection of Leonardo’s maternal figures . In the cartoon, Saint Anne and Mary both caress the Christ child, who is playing with Saint John the Baptist. For Freud, these two figures have a double significance. First, they represent Leonardo’s father’s second wife, Donna Albicia, and his paternal grandmother, Mona…

Earlier in this introduction, I mentioned that it was my texts’ emphasis on space, both narrative and physical, that combined with their focus on memory to create a monument. In his book Spatiality and the Novel, Joseph Kestner calls space in text a “secondary illusion” . In the otherwise timebound narrative, in which events happen…

Bio-fuel mandates are one of several policies, including crop insurance and research funding priorities, that currently maintain the profitability of corn production; however, these policies need not be the ones that define rotational landscapes, and increased funding for policies such as the Conservation Stewardship Program could better align farmers’ economic incentives with improved environmental health.…

Thus, as with the 1956 Soil Bank Program from which the CRP grew, it is the least productive land and lowest income households that are often enrolled and kept profitable. Second, studies have shown that conservation compliance does not present a strong economic deterrent for landowners who want to crop former CRP acreage after the CRP…

During the 1990s there were numerous mergers between agricultural, pharmaceutical, and chemical firms tied to the global seed industry that aimed to take advantage of potential synergies and secure even greater corporate profit and strength. Because the mergers took place within the globalized market where most seed industry markets exist beyond one nation-state, however, these expected…

Such changes have been facilitated by a mix of high-tech globalized financial systems and labor markets, speculative financial markets, corporate control over the public sphere, increased commodification of human heritages , and increased consumerism. inequality, are also antithetical to one another, despite recent gains in terms of USDA Civil Rights settlements and slowly increasing participation…

Interestingly, in 2007 there was an increase in the number of dairies with a milk cow herd size between 500 to 1,000, but then a subsequent decrease the following year. In 2017 there was a clear increase in the number of commercial dairies with a milk cow herd size between 1,500 and 2,000. New Mexico…

Large dirt clods cause poor germination because seeds planted in or under them have little contact with the soil or may be buried too deeply. If the soil is too wet, it will be difficult to break up the large clods. In this case, allow it to dry a few days and try again. You…

A noticeable spike in PURE indices appeared in 1998 for organic agriculture caused by a single application of copper sulfate with an application rate of 150 lb/acre, which is ten times larger than the average application rate and clearly a data abnormality. The PURE index is a measure of environmental impacts on the per acre…

Lastly, future studies examining the effect of marijuana legalization on adolescent marijuana use should assess mediation by marijuana availability as a potentially important locus of intervention, particularly as more governments are likely to adopt liberalized marijuana policies. Researchers should seek to better understand this association and its environmental determinants, including in South America with additional years…