Raja Krishnamoorthi

The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.

American Businessman

Hope Jahren

Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.

American Scientist

Mike Leach

Oh I've never liked candy corn, I think it's just awful - I think candy corn's awful.

American Coach

Joanna Southcott

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

English Celebrity

Mary Elizabeth Lease

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

American Writer

Peter Navarro

Manufacturing is the seed corn for other jobs in the U.S.

American Economist

Lewis Black

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

American Comedian

William Bernbach

Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.

Michael Pollan

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

American Educator

Bruce Rauner

Corn is a staple food around the world and can be found in many dishes.

Food Staple

In many cultures, especially Native American, corn is a symbol of life and fertility.

Cultural Symbol

Corn can be processed into various forms like kernels, flour, and oil.

Processing Forms

In Britain, 'corn' can refer to any cereal crop, different from American English.

British Specific

In an agricultural context, 'corn' signifies the dominant crop in a region.

Agricultural Term

A corn is a type of foot ailment and not food related.

Health Problem

Corns on the foot often require treatment to remove.

Treatment Needed

Corning is a process used to preserve meat, especially beef.

Food Preservation

Corning has been used for centuries to extend the shelf life of food.

Historical Technique

 root vegetables so sweet potato carrots and then also sweet corn and peppers that sort of thing i think banana would be a very special occasion type of type of treat yeah i think it is more just films and things like that it's so ingrained in your mind as i eat bananas and if they find one they'll eat it but they won't it's not a major part of

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 Instead, we maybe want to freeze the footprint of agriculture and farm the lands we have better. This is work that we're doing to try to highlight places in the world where we could improve yields without harming the environment. The green areas here show where corn yields, just showing corn as an example,

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 You could take a cardboard box delivering shoes, you could add water -- I developed this for the refugee community -- corns, beans and squash and onions. I took several containers -- my wife said, if I could do this, anybody could -- and I ended up growing a seed garden. Then you harvest the seeds --

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 and introduced them to cultivation, to agriculture. And so they grow a lot of plantain and banana a bit of rice as well. And corn, which is originally from that part of the world. And they do "slash and burn" agriculture. They burn, they grow right next to their settlement.

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 So they decided to directly observe the sheep with one scientist even living with the herd for three summers. After a decade of trial and error, the scientists finally found the culprit, wild corn lilies. The lilies contained an active molecule with six connected rings

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 although many others contributed to the idea. It isn't a field, like where you grow corn, but a hypothetical, invisible kind of force field that pervades the whole universe." "Hmmmm, okay. If it pervades the whole universe, how come I've never seen it?

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 Now, corn originated, we think, in Mexico. This is the genetic biodiversity storehouse of corn. This brings back a skepticism that has gone away recently, that superweeds and superpests could spread around the world,

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 Another wartime technology, the chemical explosive ammonium nitrate, also found new life on the farm. With this new synthetic fertilizer, farmers could plant dense fields of corn year after year,