First the link to this week’s complete list as HTML and as PDF.
If I read Gassmann et al. correctly, the susceptibility of the current regime of maize growing for breeding resistance was well known beforehand, but it was adopted regardless. Are humans innately too stupid to use things like antibiotics sensibly?
Reading Nigro it seems that finally there begins to be some movement in the historical chronology that’s 100 years off compared to the established date of the Thera eruption.