RIP Dr. Norman Borlaug

For you print pedants, this from the Gaea Times:

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Norman Borlaug, father of the ‘green revolution,’ dies at age 95

September 12th, 2009

Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug dies at 95

DALLAS — Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the “green revolution” who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday in Texas, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman said. He was 95.

Borlaug died just before 11 p.m. Saturday at his home in Dallas from complications of cancer, said school spokeswoman Kathleen Phillips. Phillips said Borlaug’s granddaughter told her about his death. Borlaug was a distinguished professor at the university in College Station.

The Nobel committee honored Borlaug in 1970 for his contributions to high-yield crop varieties and bringing other agricultural innovations to the developing world. Many experts credit the green revolution with averting global famine during the second half of the 20th century and saving perhaps 1 billion lives.
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For myself, I prefer this peppier micro-bio from Penn & Teller, which is hewn from a much longer episode of their Showtime teevee series "Bullshit", wherein they spend most of the rest of the show calling various people from "Greenpeace" poopy-heads.

Still, this part stands up pretty well on its own

and if saving the lives of a billion of people doesn't get you into the Almighty's own Executive Club Lounge where you can wait in comfort until your angel is prepped and ready to fly you to Heaven, then I don't know what will.