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TMI Friday: I'll never look at carrots the same way again
Carrots are a brilliant and versatile vegetable.You can grate them into salads, you can roast them and you can even try frying them. We humans have such great degrees of ingenuity that we are forever...
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Parent Child Relationships
Relationships between parents and children are complicated. This is not only true for people and animals, but it is also true for plants. In this research paper Dr. David Haig explores the relationship...
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An Absolutely Beautiful (and Incredible) Fossil from the Early Triassic of...
Fernandez, V., Abdala, F., Carlson, K.J., Cook, D.C., Rubidge, B.S., Yates, A., and P. Tafforeau. 2013. Synchrotron Reveals Early Triassic Odd Couple: Injured Amphibian and Aestivating Therapsid Share...
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Garden walkers' reactions
Mrs. Phactor is pretty pleased; the yard and garden look very neat and tidy, just a bit raw in some small areas, some new projects got done in time, and enough flowers are open to provide some color...
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Donald Baird and His Fieldwork in the Triassic-Jurassic of Nova Scotia
Sues, H.-D., Hook, R. W., and P. E. Olsen. 2013. Donald Baird and his discoveries of Carboniferous and early Mesozoic vertebrates in Nova Scotia. Atlantic Geology 49:90-103. Abstract - Donald Baird...
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Sheep-eating plant?
Sure. TPP calls BS on a sheep-eating plant. Puya chiliensis, a member of the pineapple family, is a tough, spiny native of the Andes. Sheep ain't, so right there the story falters. How does a plant...
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Negative Strand Virus meeting 2013
I have just returned from the Negative Strand Virus meeting held in the city of Granada in the south of Spain. The above is the view from the historic Alhambra palace overlooking the city. This 6 day...
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Helping the NSA keep us safe
So the NSA is spying on us to keep us safe and sound from terrorism while trampling on our constitutional rights, even though that is what the terrorists so despise, our freedoms. Did it ever occur to...
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Extreme rituals promote prosociality
We last met Dimitris Xygalatas (Aarhus University, Denmark) on this blog back in January, with a study of how being in a religious location can affect generosity. What was interesting about that study...
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#MicroTwJC: Bacteria in SPAAAAACE !!
In 2011, Stephen Hawking declared that humanity may not survive to see the next millenium "without escaping beyond our fragile planet." That may seem like an overly dramatic statement, but there is...
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Runners: Stop the Pronation Panic
If you walk into a sporting goods store and ask for shoes, you're likely to be thrown on a treadmill and have your strides dissected on video as if you were crossing an Olympic finish line....
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What Works for Knee Pain? Good Medicine, Bad Medicine, and Wasted Money
Knee pain is a very common problem, affecting young and old alike. Among athletes, knees take a beating, particularly in sports that involve running and twisting. Among older people, the cartilage...
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Plan ahead - invest in coastal property
Here's an idea for you long-term investors. Get a contour map and figure out where coastlines are going to be once the ice caps in the Arctic and Antarctic have melted. Buy cheapo property now, far...
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RE coastal property as an investment
If you actually thought about taking TPP's suggestion about buying coastal property before it becomes coastal property as an investment, you might need to shorten your timetable a bit according to some...
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"Francosuchus" trauthi is Not a Phytosaur - Implications for Late Triassic...
This eliminates the marine tie for the Otischalkian Land Vertebrate Faunachron, although the identification of this specimen as 'Paleorhinus' was already pretty weak as argued by Irmis et al....
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A grave alarm
posted by @ulaulaman about an invention by #AugustLindquist My invention relates to improvements in grave alarms, whereby persons who are prematurely buried before life is extinct, can sound an alarm,...
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KILLER ALGA EATS PEOPLE!
In the category of outrageous "news" stories about plants, can TPP play? Just a couple of days after seeing the blooming of a spiny pineapple touted as a "sheep-eating" plant, another image comes to...
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First record of Colognathus (?Amniota) from the Middle Triassic of Europe
This is a short note redescribing material from the Middle Triassic of Germany that is referable to the enigmatic vertebrate taxon Colognathus, which has been considered everything from a 'fish' to and...
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The unified theory of gumbo
The Botanical Society of America is meeting in New Orleans Louisiana about a month from now. The fact that it will be hot and humid hardly matters because botanists are basically cheap-skates and they...
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Your Bird Feeder Could Be Bad for Birds
A free meal might seem like just the thing for your bird friends in winter, especially if that meal takes place in front of your picture window. But your feeder could be harming some bird species more...
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