Yuan Longping was a Chinese agronomist and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, part of the large changes in agriculture happening during that period. For his contributions, Yuan is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice". Hybrid rice has since been grown in dozens of countries in Africa, America, and Asia—boosting food security and providing a robust food source in areas with a high risk of famine.
Yuan was both professionally and personally interested on rice production. He spent a majority of his time in the field, rather than staying confined in a lab or publishing papers. As such, he played a large role in Chinese agriculture by mentoring and leading others in the field, which helped foster future achievements in Chinese agriculture. In 1979, his technique for hybrid rice was introduced into the United States, making it the first case of intellectual property rights transfer in the history of the People's Republic of China.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization 1991 statistics show that 20 percent of the world's rice output came from 10 percent of the world's rice fields that grow hybrid rice. Yuan advocated for sharing the success of his breakthroughs with other nations. He and his team donated crucial rice strains to the International Rice Research Institute in 1980. These donated strains were used to create hybrid rice strains that could sustain and grow in tropical countries to help their food supply chains. In addition to donating important rice strains, Yuan and his team taught farmers in other countries to grow and cultivate hybrid rice.
On March 10, 2021, Yuan Longping collapsed at his hybrid rice research base in Sanya. On April 7, he was transferred to Changsha, Hunan Province for treatment. At 13:07 on May 22, Yuan Longping died of multiple organ failure at Xiangya Hospital of Central South University Considered a national hero, tens of thousands of people sent flowers to the funeral home.
:07: to a real one
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reading about the twilight zone on wikipedia, and this show fucking rules. if i was a suburban american in the 50s this shit would have blown my mind. it feels years ahead of its time.
Twilight Zone is amazing and holds up and everyone should watch all the episodes. Some of the best ones aren't as famous.
reading about rod sterling's favorite episode rn
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A woman who lives in a log cabin with no modern amenities noticed a flying saucer. The aliens in it are tiny, and shoot at her with ray guns. Neither the woman nor the aliens talk. The aliens hunt her down, attacking her with her steak knife and cutting her leg pretty badly, but she manages to kill one and throw it in the fireplace. The other one escapes back to his ship, where he says in English 'My partner was killed. This planet is inhabited by giants, who we can't win against, we should stay away.' And the camera reveals that the shop belongs to the US air force searching for new places to exploit.
Definitely. The Twilight Zone was groundbreaking on a ton of different fronts, not the least of which tackling racism. I don't remember the episode well enough to say how good of a job it did (and I'm almost afraid to go back to find it to be cringe) but there was an episode with George Takei exploring post WWII racism wrt a Japanese man. To my knowledge, there was nothing else like that on TV at the time. I think there was some issue even with that episode airing because of it, I'll have to go read up about it.
(Here's the wikipedia article, but I haven't read it yet, right now I'm just pulling from memory.)
I do remember it being pretty anti-communist, but what the fuck wasn't back then. For the record, I'm not that old to have watched it when it aired, but I did watch 'em all as a teen in the 90's and early 00's. But even if it was anti-communist, it still feels like it served to spotlight some capitalist contradictions, and despite itself, still had what I would say are pro-communist ideals. Obviously it varied from episode to episode. But yeah... Twilight Zone rocked.
I remember I watched the episode about the SS officer going back to the concentration camp he worked at and being driven to insanity by the ghosts of his victims and thought that seemed pretty cool. I also remember the episode about the aliens invading, but all they do is watch as the town they visit starts to kill each other out of suspicions that there's an imposter among them. I watched it in class and my teacher said the aliens were an obvious metaphor for communists, and I almost said that it seemed like it was opposed to mccarthyism mostly, but felt like that might be a bad idea.
Yep, I remember those too now that you mention them. I think the Simpsons did a version of the ones about aliens invading and the town killing each other. Or wait, is that the same one as the bomb shelter without "enough room"? Gah. Memory. But yeah, that shit about it being a metaphor for communists I suspect is a lot more on your teacher than it is on TZ.
I also remember another one where there's a tiny alien UFO terrorizing an old woman who is desperately trying to save herself from it. In the end, turns out the tiny UFO was actually the United States. Or I hope it was - it was earthlings at least, but I think the ending twist was an American flag rising up or on the terrorizing ship. I'm sure it was more a commentary on bad first impressions and fear of the other than anything against the US, but it still wasn't exactly a common trope at the time that the ones you thought were the bad guys were actually American!
I mentioned that one under spoilers up above, that one was actually Rod Sterling's favorite episode (along with the one about the guy who has all the time he wants to read, but a broken pair of glasses.)
Oh yeah, sorry. I'm not sure how I missed your other comment about it, but that's certainly the one. Interesting that that was a favorite of Sterling's.
The broken glasses one was exceptional as well. A classic of ironic stories. "All the time in the world." Edit: "Time enough at last"
looking it up on amazon, and the complete series is $130. i was considering buying it, but i guess not!
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I've been mailing it in as hard as fucking possible at my job for months now, just doing everything super slowly and generally just killing time every day til 5 PM, and I keep expecting to get talked to about it but I just got a glowing performance review :shrug-outta-hecks:
still hate it here tho
Just made some tasty udon with tofu, peppers, onions, and mushrooms. The sauce was a mix of tamari, hoisin, water, with finely minced ginger. I let the tofu marinate for a bit then slowly added that and the marinate/noodles to the veggies/mushrooms. I have like 2-3 more meals of this too 😎
The recipe didn't call for it, but of course I added a bit of sriracha to make it a bit spicy
'Das Kapital' for children wins China's top children's books of 2018
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A colored child-edition of "Das Kapital" has been honored as one of the 24 best Chinese children's books of 2018.
The 150-page book outlines the essence of "Das Kapital," the great work on political economy, and introduces its author Karl Marx, its global influence and its Chinese characteristics.
Intended for children aged between eight and 14 years old, the book is adorned with hundreds of hand-painted illustrations.
Man the anti heroin use hostile architecture is actually the worst. It's a bright blue light that makes your eyes hurt. I feel awful just peeing quickly, like who thought it's a good idea.
> need to rid the city of drug users
> drug users are human beings
> make the city hostile to human beings
> ???
> profit!capitalism creates huge masses of dispossed, desperate people who are less and less able to be controlled
humans need food and shelter to stay alive
food and shelter comes from nature
destroy nature/biosphere
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Blackshirts and Reds sadfact of the day: Due to extensive subsidies for the arts, 3/5 of all books worldwide were written in the Soviet Union
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What if instead of living vicariously it was living bicuriously and we kissed just to see if we enjoyed it :crush:
