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Have a Happy Thought:      Here in the southern hemisphere, spring is starting to... well, spring. Longer days and warmer weather, as well as flowers and leaf buds and growing plants everywhere. So today I bring you two stories of seeds that have lasted the test of time. One comes to us courtesy of Michigan State University and a team of scientists stretching back 145 years (yes you read that right). Basically, a professor in the late 19th century decided that it would be good to know how long seeds of various plants - mainly human food crops - could last as seeds, and still germinate. In other words, how long can we store future food as seeds? So, he buried a bunch of seeds in a time capsule, and then dug them up a year later. He put a sample of seeds into dirt and water, and watched whether they would grow.  Many of them did. So, he tried the same thing five years later. And then five years after that. By 1920, the original researcher had handed on the project, and his successor ex