Daily Archive for June 6th, 2007

Yellow Pear Tomatoes

Published on June 6, 2007 in food and drink and gardening. 3 Comments

Tasty yellow pear tomatoes (click for larger):

tasty yellow tomatoes

They have been showing up all of a sudden (it seems) on this plant from last year. I’d read that this is quite a hardy plant and it certainly is, lasting through from last season, through the cold snap, and now coming back more strong than last year. Apparently, it is quite an old variety, going back to at least the 1750s.

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Griffin Apologizes

Published on June 6, 2007 in environment, global warming and science. 31 Comments

Interestingly, NASA’s chief administrator, Michael Griffin, apologized for his somewhat bizarre remarks of last week. What remarks? The ones that (among other things) essentially sidelined a huge amount of the work people in his own organization are busy with. See here for a reminder. He made his apology at JPL on Monday:

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