Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)
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Re: Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)
#2For years the holy grail has been for corn to produce its own nitrogen. This could be a small step in the right direction. Interested to see what happens when some of the great American agricultural schools further this experiment.
Re: Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)
#3I thought this was going to be an eats, shoots, and leaves style discussion.
A wart-covered pea plant is what they refer to (near Cork, Ireland)
Re: Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)
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Re: Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)
#5This content is from 2014-15; perhaps they AI-rehashed the Yahoo! News story about them?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/16-old-girls-win-google-science-f...
They posted a video summarizing their efforts in 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL9N7O0uJoU
Vice did an interview in 2016:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/these-teenagers-science-proj...
Ciara Judge went on to join the research effort to stop Covid in 2021:
https://ciarajudge.github.io/about
And recently earned her Ph.D publishing GPL3 software:
https://github.com/ciarajudge/EpiFusion
> EpiFusion uses particle filtering to simulate epidemic trajectories over time and weight their likelihood according to both case incidence data and a phylogenetic tree using separate observation models, resulting in the inference of trajectories in agreement with both sets of data.
Re: Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)
#6For years the holy grail has been for corn to produce its own nitrogen. This could be a small step in the right direction. Interested to see what happens when some of the great American agricultural schools further this experiment.
Putting aside the cultural imperialism (this happened in Ireland, which is in Europe, which is also where two of the greatest agricultural schools in the world, if not also the two greatest for this, are based), it also happened over a decade ago, so I guess everyone has tried furthering it by now.
Re: Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)
#7For years the holy grail has been for corn to produce its own nitrogen. This could be a small step in the right direction. Interested to see what happens when some of the great American agricultural schools further this experiment.
I thought all those school/systems of colleges had their budgets cut last year?
Re: Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)
#8For years the holy grail has been for corn to produce its own nitrogen. This could be a small step in the right direction. Interested to see what happens when some of the great American agricultural schools further this experiment.
> ... what happens when some of the great American agricultural schools further this experiment.
"Brawndo! It's got what plants crave!"
Re: Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)
#9Cool a science blog! But it's a rehashed article, followed by an infinite amount of random Taboola scams, arbitrage posts, clickbait articles with jarring content.
Why does shit like that work better than quality contextual advertising?
Re: Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)
#10Using nitrogen-fixing bacteria is not a new concept and it's the life's work of Dr Mariangela Hungria, who recently received the 2025 World Food Prize for her achievements in the field:
https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/20202026_laureat...