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(or, I’m back!) So the last couple months have been a real wringer for me. As many of you know, my mother lost her ability to walk and started to weaken due to progressive spinal deformation ca...

https://skydancingblog.com/2011/06/01/midweek-tidbits-from-sima/

We’ve been following the Wikileaks saga here at Sky Dancing, and at the end of January/beginning of February, an interesting twist appeared in the story. As you might know, a ‘hacktivist’ g...

https://skydancingblog.com/2011/02/22/opening-the-hive/

I was thinking about writing a gardening and food post, then Kat mentioned gardening in the Monday Reads and so I ran with it. Up here in the northern-westernest part of the lower 48 La Nina has ...

https://skydancingblog.com/2011/02/14/monday-afternoon-sky-dancing-in-the-garden/

I recently commented that I thought GM crops had more to do with colony collapse disorder in the European Honey Bee than is normally suspected. I want to expand on that comment. But first, we nee...

https://skydancingblog.com/2011/02/07/more-gm-fun-now-with-bees/

I wrote about GM Alfalfa several days ago, and wanted to post a short followup. First, do we really need GM Alfalfa? Probably not. It’s not like Alfalfa is riddled with a weed problem in this c...

https://skydancingblog.com/2011/02/02/follow-up-gm-alfalfa/

The Center for Food Safety took the USDA’s decision to allow unregulated planting of Round-Up Ready Alfalfa to court in 2005, all the way to the Supreme Court, and managed to stop any planting ...

https://skydancingblog.com/2011/01/29/more-proof-that-the-world-is-run-by-the-rich-for-the-rich/

(In which Sima works herself up into a frothing rant.) Commodity futures prices, wheat, rice and corn, are rising again after a brief fall. In fact, they are supposed to top the records set in 20...

https://skydancingblog.com/2011/01/05/didnt-we-just-do-this/

Recently our own Grayslady posted an excellent article about Wikileaks, Monsanto and GMO Corn. She discussed a cable sent in late 2007 from our then Ambassador to France, Craig Stapleton, in whic...

https://skydancingblog.com/2010/12/28/wikileaks-and-gmogm-food-more-cables-more-fun/

One of the crazy things I do with my copious free time (haha) is Medieval/Renaissance re-enactment. I try to combine that with my love of research and recently wrote a small article for a very lo...

https://skydancingblog.com/2010/12/21/once-upon-a-time-christmas-in-medieval-england/

Notice anything on the mainstream news about an anti-war rally in DC?  Yea, me neither.  However, the rally was reported at the Huffington Post, at Democracy Now, at Raw Story and at Real News,...

https://skydancingblog.com/2010/12/18/december-16th-came-and-went/