Flood-resistant crops could aid developing nations: Biologists have found a gene that enables rice to live longer underwater. The new breed can survive underwater for up to two weeks, researchers say -- most rice plants die within days of being submerged. Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
