Before GMOs there were Atomic Seeds and Muriel Howorth
Muriel Howorth, founder of the Atomic Gardening Society, was a woman we wish we had personally known. Now we know about her because of the efforts of the author of the blog, "Garden History Girl". You can enjoy the most recent post at http://gardenhistorygirl.blogspot.com/2013/02/more-on-atomic-gardens.html Howorth is the subject of a new article in the British Journal of the History of Science that you can read at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2mfa2lmy9ZERnVhU3hSbm1LUUk/edit?usp=sharing with the compliments of the Journal and the author, Paige Johnson (nanotechnology researcher at the University of Tulsa). Johnson's earlier writing about Howorth can be read at http://gardenhistorygirl.blogspot.com/2010/12/atomic-gardens.html Another article was written about atomic seeds last year, "Strange and Beautiful Seeds from the Atom" by Nicola Twilley in the online blog Edible Geography at http://www.ediblegeography.com/strange-and-beautiful-seeds-fr...