Public talks, writing and interviews
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• The Most Deceptive Graph Ever?
• Good Luck with the Corn, RFK You A-hole
• Bonus Eventus and Childless Cat Ladies
• CRISPR and the Monsanto Problem
• GM Foods: A Moment of Honesty
- BlueSky feed (not very active TBH)
- 2025 Food Sleuth radio/podcast interview on food production technology, GMO's, and the Green Revolution (dropped November 14)
- 2025 Univ. Missouri College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, keynote address, "Academic Dilemmas and the Underlying Philosophy of Agricultural Research", Oct 1.
- 2025 "Malthus Got It Backwards: Modern Agriculture and the Ungreen Revolution" talk at Virginia Tech Univ., March 4.
- 2024 Golden Rice: Why has it been banned and what happens now? The Guardian podcast interview, June 6.
- 2024 Food, Power and Eugenics in the Blue Ridge. Washington & Lee Univ., Just Food series.
- 2023 The Green Revolution is a warning, not a blueprint for feeding a hungry planet. The Conversation, Oct 4.
- 2022 Rethinking the Green Revolution. The Received Wisdom podcast interview, Nov 2.
- 2022 On the agricultural dilemma. Between the Lines podcast interview.
- 2020 The Philippines has rated ‘Golden Rice’ safe, but farmers might not plant it. The Conversation, Feb 7 (with D. Glover).
- 2019 Historians rethink the Green Revolution. Geography Directions, Feb 26.
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2018 The Dubious Virtue of Apostasy (review of Mark Lynas's Seeds of Science). The Common Reader, Dec 13.
- 2018 The future of food. Medium magazine, interview
- 2017 Forget GMOs. The next big battle is over genetically ‘edited’ foods. Washington Post interview, 13 June.
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2017 Pioneers of GMO Research” interview, NC State.
- 2016 Morley Science Medal speech, Western Reserve Academy
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2015 On Golden Rice. Secret Ingredient podcast interview with Tom Philpott & Raj Patel, 16 Feb.
- 2015 The FoxNewsization of GMOs. EnviroSociety blog.
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2014 Japanese Agriculture Show Village. Culture and Agriculture blog. AAA website.
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2012 Al Jazeera TV interview on biopiracy, Jan.
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2011 Down To Earth magazine interview, Dec.
- 2010 Science Friday with Ira Flatow, interview on genetically modified crops, March.
An entertaining academic/trade book:
My Agri-Food Workshop speaker series
Amherst History