Here is a relevant article. I used to work for Syngenta & the talk was the head breeder for brassicas
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True, visited a vegetable breeding station in Holland. Don't remember the details, but 19th century sprouts were mild, but some breeding decisions in the 20th century unintentionally brought back bitterness. In the 80's they figured out the cause & bred it back out. I'll look for a pop sci article

A brother in law used to hate vegetables, till he married my home-economist sister. Turns out his mom's veggies all came out of a can

Dry ass macaroni &cheese, mostly with out cheese

Likewise! Somehow in the past year he has been radicalized & just doesn't give a shit if he violates the expectations of the centrist media

Love to see it. I'm an OLD biochemist who predates plate readers, anything you can do on a plate system can be don manually with a simple spectrophotometer. I'll follow progress eagerly.

Yes

One can find small used absorbance instruments at very low cost, particularly if single cell (cuvette) measurement is all you need

Of course no one wants to remember that the same Spain that sent settlers also practiced human sacrifice to their god... somehow they forgot the many Jews, Muslims & "heretics " burned at the stake in the same time period

Once, I rented a small apartment in Trastevere for a week. It was great!

Family lore says one of my great grandfathers regularly did that thing. Get drunk in town & rely on horse pulling wagon to get him home

Judging by the stories told by my farmer relatives (born 1890 to 1920's) horses were very frequently the cause of injuries, usually when panicked.

Love that album. I wore out my LP

folxx NOW WITH ELECTROLYTES!!

And she lived on a pig farm, it's not like she was a nooby re foul smells

My aunt, who famously had a poor sense of smell, banned it from the house. The garage refrigerator was used, and vigorously cleaned afterwards

My uncle used to make lutefisk, I could never get over the smell