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The Colorado Genebank That Keeps Foods from Going Extinct
- always_good 9y agoI wonder if they can sell me some Pepsi Blue.
- nitrogen 9y agoThough this comment alone may not add much to the discussion, I'd like to use it to point out how ridiculous and subtly manipulative headlines are getting -- using second person pronouns, tenuous emotional connections, faux mystery, etc. When does it end? And no mention of the phrase "seed bank"? Edit: the original headline was "The Colorado vault that keeps your favorite foods from going extinct"
- always_good 9y agoYeah, puts you in kind of a dumb state of mind where you click in and go "honeybee semen? Not one of my favorites, you don't know me." The headline substantially waters down the mission of the program.
- georgecmu 9y agoI wish this article provided more context. Apart from the Svalbard facility, there are more than a 1,000 seed banks [1] around the world. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, the world's first, and for a long time largest seed collection isn't mentioned in either article. A heroic story [2] associated with that collection is worth knowing. [1] https://www.agprofessional.com/article/update-worlds-15-largest-seed-banks https://www.agprofessional.com/article/update-worlds-15-larg... [2] https://www.rbth.com/blogs/2014/05/12/the_men_who_starved_to_death_to_save_the_worlds_seeds_35135 https://www.rbth.com/blogs/2014/05/12/the_men_who_starved_to...
- dang 9y agoURL changed from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/inside-colorado-vault-keeping-your-favorite-foods-going-extinct-180968430/?no-ist https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/inside-colorad..., which points to this.