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It is estimated that by 2026, more than three million farmers in India will be able to access underground water using solar pumps. Once they are installed, these pumps can supply water using light from the sun without additional expense. This will increase badly needed food production in parched rural communities throughout India, Africa, and elsewhere. With the extra water they can even grow cash crops which provide income for poor communities. That’s the good news.
CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a sophisticated genetic technology which can engineer changes in the DNA blueprint of plants and animals. History was made in 2023, with the launch of a salad blend made from the first genome-edited plant product using CRISPR. Purple and green mustard greens, naturally bitter to the taste but with a higher nutritional value than lettuce, were gene-edited to remove the bitterness. The result tastes more like lettuce, while retaining its original nutritional content.
A Ford® Focus that wasn’t working quite right was brought into the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Ford service department in September. Mechanics quickly discovered they had no tools to fix it.
The following quote is from a new book, Science After Babel, by David Berlinski. The author is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute in Seattle. It is quoted from World Magazine, October 21, 2023, p. 32.
There remains, at the heart of the universe, the profound mystery of life itself: “a kind of intelligence evident nowhere else,” whose “fantastic and controlled complexity, its brilliant inventiveness and diversity, its sheer difference from anything else in this or any other world” is beyond the reach of science to explain.
