Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's Super-Wheat!

British scientists say they have developed a new type of wheat which could increase productivity by 30%. The Cambridge-based National Institute of Agricultural Botany has combined an ancient ancestor of wheat with a modern variety to produce a new strain. In early trials, the resulting crop seemed bigger and stronger than the current modern wheat varieties. That is quite impressive, but it will take at least five years of tests and regulatory approval before it is harvested by farmers. While we wait for the harvesting of said wheat to commence, I suggest visiting an Argentine town which has risen from the briny deep in the Argentinian farmlands southwest of Buenos Aires. Villa Epecuen was once a bustling little lakeside resort, where 1,500 people served 20,000 tourists a season. But disaster struck when the town was flooded without warning after a long period of heavy rains finally sent the lagoon bursting over its banks, submerging the small community in 1985. The town hasn't been rebuilt but it has become a tourist destination again, for people willing to drive at least six hours from Buenos Aires to get there, along 340 miles (550km) of narrow country roads. People come to see the rusted hulks of automobiles, furniture, crumbled homes, and broken appliances. They climb staircases that lead nowhere and wander through a graveyard where the water toppled headstones and exposed tombs to the elements. It's a bizarre, post-apocalyptic landscape that captures a traumatic moment in time.