Stuart Smyth

StuartSmyth

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and holds the Industry Funded Agri-Food Innovation's Chair. My research focuses on innovation and agriculture and the resulting impacts. In also puts out a weekly bl…

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OOPS - Puerto Rican Insects In Forest Canopy Increase With Warmth - Not Decline - And Frogs Like The Warmth Too

This is about that much publicized insect collapse in Puerto Rico, which the authors blamed on climate change. It turns out that they made a natural but rather big mistake, not correcting for the…

What Next For Messenger RNA (mRNA)? Maybe Inhalable Vaccines

No one likes getting a needle but most want a vaccine.

Bottle Feeding Babies Has Been Done For 7,000 Years

Though a modern naturalism movement has tried to shame mothers who don't, won't, or can't breastfeed, using bottles of animal milk - the prehistoric version of formula - turns out to be an ancient…

RIP Richard Garwin, 'The Only True Genius' Fermi Ever Met

Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called “the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of.” He got his Ph.D.