Michael Specter

All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn't whether our food has been modified, but how.

American Journalist

Adrienne Mayor

I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical reality - in stories about nature that are perpetuated in oral myths. That's how I got interested in it.

American Historian

Linus Torvalds

It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

Finnish Businessman

Forest Whitaker

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

American Actor

Zac Posen

A great trick for frying is to put a popcorn kernel in the oil, and when it pops, you're ready to fry.

American Designer

Harry Dean Stanton

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Alan Dundes

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

American Educator

Charles Spurgeon

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

British Clergyman

Bill Hayden

Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.

Australian Politician

Joe Bob Briggs

American Critic

Often describes the nutritious center within a hard shell, suggesting health and vitality.

Nutritional Focus

Some kernels may be inedible due to bitterness or toxicity, so context matters.

Not Always Edible

Sometimes used metaphorically to represent potential growth or development.

Symbol of Potential

Used to describe a central element that is fundamental to understanding a larger concept.

Essential Element

May denote a simple, undeveloped idea that has the potential to be expanded upon.

Starting Point

In complex situations, it can refer to the hidden but important aspect that needs uncovering.

Hidden Significance

Refers specifically to the core software managing system resources in computers.

System Core

A term primarily used by those familiar with computer systems and software development.

Technical Jargon

In IT, often surrounded by other technical terms; understanding context is key.

Layered Context

 in the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean. We've been looking specifically at krill, one of the most important food items in this habitat. These half-inch long shrimp-like critters are about the caloric equivalent of a heavily buttered kernel of popcorn. And they're eaten by everything from birds and fur seals that pick them up one at a time

How giant sea creatures...

 the way you unravel the peels of an onion. So peel by peel, you take away the layers of the onion to get at some fundamental kernel of truth. I don't think that's the way it works either. Another one, a kind of popular one, is the iceberg idea, that we only see the tip of the iceberg but underneath is where most of the iceberg is hidden.

Stuart Firestein: The...

 She started interacting with people in these online spaces, and they made her feel smart, they made her feel validated. She started feeling a sense of community, started wondering if maybe some of these shocking memes might actually contain a kernel of truth. A few months later, she was in a car with some of her new internet friends

Inside the bizarre world...

 And we harvest those seeds, and those are the wheat kernels. Now, in order to harvest it -- I mean, what's harvesting? It's just a euphemism for killing, right? I mean, that's what's harvest -- we say we harvest the pig, you know? Yes, we slaughter, you know. Yes, that's life. We harvest the wheat,

Peter Reinhart: The art...

 It's memes, videos, social posts. And most of it is not fake; it's misleading. We tend to fixate on what's true or false. But the biggest concern is actually the weaponization of context. Because the most effective disinformation has always been that which has a kernel of truth to it.

How you can help...

 started disclosing classified information, there were some kernels of truth in there, but a lot of extrapolations and half-truths in there, and I'm interested in helping to address those. I think this is a really important conversation that we're having in the United States

Richard Ledgett: The NSA...

 such a buzz around this dish. There is lye in Hickory ash, which is extremely corrosive. I'm excited to be shown what this unique ingredients will do to humble corn kernels. And it also makes some more amino acids available to you, and you have less vitamin deficiencies.

Gordon Makes Hominy PIPE...

 have been discussed here and yet a hope that was so resilient I hope that that was so powerful that left a kernel of optimism and that has that has been an engine in the passion and in the mission that has been my life's work which is really to empower people with

WorldSpace: The world’s...

 the idea that there's a kernel of truth thought to be important, passed down from generation to generation, so that it actually ends up shaping human behavior? I wanted to test this idea. I wanted to put some science to this anecdotal evidence,

A shark-deterrent...

 but we hit a problem the kernel of wheat is a lovely nugget of nutrition but it's hard and indigestion so what we need to do is break down that grain to release the nutrition so that our bodies can absorb it and the most important

Kernel