Naut's Tidbits & Snippets for Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

And Everywhere: One Person’s Food is Another Person’s Poison...

In the early 1900s, the German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch staved off global starvation by turning nitrogen from the air into fertilizer for crops. Their explosive discovery fed millions, but it also kick-started the chemical weapons industry and helped fuel Hitler’s rise to power. The... Sign in to see full entry.

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