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Inconclusive apple pollination experiment
Poor experimental design is the reason that the results of the apple pollination experiment were inconclusive. However, some pollination did occur because some young fruit are developing on both...
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Interesting profile in the garden - bigleaf magnolia
It's a beautiful morning, brisk and sunny following a big rain event that left things well-watered and very green. TPP is supervising young backs distributing mulch around our gardens. Having moved...
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Inge Lehmann: the core of the Earth
http://t.co/gCOlKccELA about #IngeLehmann #EarthCore #theCore #geophysics Inge Lehmann was a Danish seismologist and geophysicist. Using seismic data, she discovered the inner solid core of the Earth...
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FieldNotes: do African horses do flehmen at the sight of Derby hats?
Domestic Horses of Africa by Darren Naish at Tetrapod Zoology: .......Here in Europe (and elsewhere, I’m sure) we tend not to associate horses with Africa, and we also tend to be tremendously naive as...
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Watch out Texans!
Apparently the US military is going to use the ruse of "war games" to invade all of the hostile territory between Texarkana and El Paso and declare martial law for purposes of, well, that's not clear...
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Recommended Twitter accounts for neuroscience grad students to follow
Next week I'm running a small science-communication workshop for some neuroscience grad students from developing countries. I don't know much about neuroscience, so yesterday I asked the Twitterverse...
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Friday Fabulous Flower - Red Buckeye
TPP hasn't mentioned red buckeye (Aesculus pavia) before and that can't be explained. For one thing, our red buckeyes are from the point of view of the Phactor's kitchen observatory behind the Carolina...
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Wildtype strain weirdness
While looking over some of the RNA-seq analyses done by our summer student (former undergrad, someday grad student somewhere), I noticed something unexpected. We know that cultures in the rich medium...
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Do hyaluronic acid injections help knee pain? Don't waste your money.
As spring turns into summer, we spend more time outdoors, exercising, gardening, or just walking around. And for many people, more exercise means knee pain. Count me among the afflicted.Several people,...
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Price per flower for peonies
OK, TPP is not quite done with peonies yet! Here's two peonies, both 3.5 foot diameter mounds of foliage and flowers, really big flowers! These are Itoh peonies, hybrids between tree peonies and...
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Heisenberg and Dirac in the age of NIH funding
The men who engineered the quantum revolution had some hard tasks cut out in front of them. But as the brilliant Philip Anderson says in his sparkling collection of essays "More and Different", at...
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Tuberiffic! Tuber display wins gold medalat Chelsea flower show!
For those of you unfortunate enough to have not attended a Chelsea flower show, well, how unfortunate indeed! Nothing really compares. It actually isn't all about flowers, but flowers are a very big...
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FieldNotes: How The Bird Got Its Beak
How The Bird Got Its Beak by Greg Laden at 10,000 Birds: ...........Years ago a famous writer turned the idea of finding ancient, possibly dinosaur, DNA and turning it into a theme park with dinosaurs...
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Alan Turing's declassified papers
@ulaulaman via @MathisintheAir about #AlanTuring on #arXiv Recently Ian Taylor has uploaded on arXiv a couple of declassified papers by Alan Turing about statistics, probability and cryptography: 1....
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Botanical art and endangered species
TPP assumes that many of his readers may like botanical art, and that at least some also care about endangered species. Here's an item from the Association or Society (sorry forgot exactly) of...
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Oyama magnolia flower bud
This fairly large (5-6 cm) flower bud superimposed naturally on the plant's leaf was interesting to observe and it made an interesting image; a mature flower bud of our Oyama magnolia (Magnolia...
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The Velvet Spiders: High Society
Communal web of Stegodyphus, copyright V. B. Whitehead.In John Wyndham's novel Web (published in 1979, some ten years after Wyndham's own death), a group of settlers attempting to establish a utopian...
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Too Easy, but What the Hell
I 'belong' to a 'Creation Evolution Debate' group on Facebook. I joined this group, not because I think there is a debate, there isn't, but because I wanted to see what Creationists thought was...
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Garden views - wisteria and yellow flag iris
Our gardens are settling into summer mode and other than a bumper crop of silver maple fruits/seeds, now germinating everywhere, adding to the unharvested sugar maple seedlings from last year, things...
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Date the 200th plant flowered
Wow! It was not quite a month ago that TPP posted his 100th-plant-flowered blog. Here in the northern temperate zone, May is a really busy month for flowering plants, and while May still has another 6...
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