Ken asks…
What’s your opinion of gorilla gardeners(illicit cultivators)?
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/
http://www.mnn.com/food/organic-farming/blogs/international-sunflower-guerilla-gardening-day
http://foodfreedom.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/guerilla_gardening_vb.jpg
http://amerasiaorg.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/guerilla_gardening_2.jpg
Seemingly certain local councils are opposed to the gorilla gardening movement,but where’s the harm?
Fair point Prop,all the drivers I know would consider it a game to run over the pothole flowers so they wouldn’t last long anyway.
GardenersCardiff answers:
Wonderful!
Except, “pothole guerrilla gardening?”
That might be going a little too far as the roots could possibly damage the pavement further,
and make it more difficult and costly to repair.
That would be a valid point coming from local councils.
And was that a sewage drain in the picture?
That would be a no-no also.
Otherwise, brilliant!
Sharon asks…
Spiritually speaking: Who knew that potash was a fertilizer?
http://blogs.wsj.com/source/2010/08/18/bhp-loses-potash-patience/
I mean, it seems like such a waste. We used to just empty our bowls in the trash. Who knew we could have emptied them in the garden to help the plants grow?
GardenersCardiff answers:
I do…but then I grew up on the prairies.
Robert asks…
Why do some Christians consider curiosity a vice?
I just read a blog over at the New York Times’ website by a Christian apologist who insists that curiosity is a bad thing. He mentions the story of the Garden of Eden and quotes several Christian leaders over the last few centuries who believed that the pursuit of knowledge was a bad thing. Do many Christians feel this way? If so, why?
http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/does-curiosity-kill-more-than-the-cat/?ref=global-home
GardenersCardiff answers:
This is more knee-jerk anti-science rant than anything. Without any evidence or justification, Stanley Fish claims that research scientists “are obsessive and obsessed,” and “have no power of self-control because they have no allegiance — to a deity, to human flourishing, to community — that might serve as a check on their insatiable curiosity.”
That’s an insulting generalization. No allegiance? I wonder if he knows how running a research lab works. You don’t needlessly subject animals to torture. You don’t run experiments on any old thing. It’s very much directed by money, by IRB approval, and by what the public at large wants to fund. Which is spurred by real human problems (and profit motive).
Yes, new ethical situations arise as science develops, but that simply means we should put in money and effort towards neuroethics and bioethics, not stop research altogether.
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