YouTube has the video The Health Dangers of Roundup (glyphosate) Herbicide. Jeffrey Smith & Stephanie Seneff

Tina Kingston put me onto the video “The Health Dangers of Roundup (glyphosate) Herbicide. Jeffrey Smith & Stephanie Seneff” I am making this a separate post from the Roundup (glyphosate) post because this also addresses the issue of GMOs. I have known about the connection between Roundup and GMOs, but i have never heard such a detailed discussion of why this connection is so bad. It is too bad that Neil Degrasse Tyson has jumped on the pro GMOs bandwagon. He thinks his deep scientific knowledge qualifies him to pontificate on this subject. He claims that there is no scientific connection between genetically modified organisms and harm from that modification. What he does not realize is that it is the GMO in our plants that makes it more likely that Roundup will be used when growing these plants.

Wired magazine has the article The Ultra-Pure, Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible‘

It’s quartz, but not just any quartz. Spruce Pine, it turns out, is the source of the purest natural quartz—a species of pristine sand—ever found on Earth.

Having been involved in one way or another with silicon for all of my career, I thought this article was very interesting without being too overly hyped up except for, perhaps, the title.