October 2011
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Our Childbirth Experience →
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Stages of Fetal…
September 2011
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ideonexus: "Diamond Planet" discoverer glad he's... →
9/11 by the Numbers →
[It is] easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaeda, in…
The Science of Social Welfare →
Malnutrition Affects the Mind
Credit: REL Waldman
For thousands of years civilizations have extended social safety nets to its most disadvantaged members in order to ensure a…
ideonexus: Venus is the closest planet and... →
Norfolk Botanical Gardens: Azaleas in Bloom →
Vicky with Azaleas
The azalea is unique among species of rhododendron in that, rather than blooming in clusters or “stripers” as they are known, every terminal branch on the azalea…
Science Etcetera, Moonday 20090928 →
Anchiornis huxleyi is yet another dinosaur-bird transitional species; however, researchers have recently figured out that it is firmly in the dinosaur category, which dramatically pushes back the…
Science Etcetera, Saturnday 20090926 →
Six Billion People going about their everyday lives are pushing the Earth to its sustainable limits in several biophysical thresholds, some already crossed, that are causing environmental…
Science Etcetera, Venusday 20090925 →
The flatworm Acoelomorpha is the deepest species we can go down the evolutionary tree for bilateral animals, animals that have symmetrical body forms.
Flatworm Acoelomorpha
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Hybrid Rhododendron "Capistrano" Ericaceae →
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Science Etcetera, Jupiterday 20090924 →
Like living on Mars as eastern Australia gets consumed in a dust storm brought on by rain storms and extremely dry conditions in the continent’s interior. All of which are exacerbated by climate…
Science Etcetera, Mercuryday 20090923 →
Fall colors in Europe and America are different, owing to a 35-million-year-old evolutionary split that meant North American trees had to produce the color red to ward off insects, but European…
Science Etcetera, Marsday 20090922 →
A whale carcass creates an entire ecosystem on the ocean floor, and some species found around them live on nothing else.
Dead Whales Feed an Entire Ecosystem
Credit: Craig R Smith
Norfolk Botanical Gardens: Rose Garden →
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. ~ J. M. Barrie
Norfolk Botanical Gardens Rose Garden
Shakespeare wrote, “What’s in a name? That which we call a…
Science Etcetera, Moonday 20090921 →
In honor of They Might Be Giants’ new album Here Comes Science, I’ll be posting videos for songs from the album all week (HT John).
They Might Be Giants: Here Comes Science
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Charisma Rose, Rosa "JELroganci" Floribunda... →
Rose "Theodore Roosevelt" Hybrid Tea →
Charisma Rose, Rosa "JELroganci" Floribunda... →
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Rosa "Royal Sunset" Large-Flowered Climber →
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Rose, Rosa "Picnic" Floribunda Rosaceae →
Rosa "Royal Sunset" Large-Flowered Climber →
Rosa "Handel" Large-Flowered Climber →
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Unknown Rose →
Rose, Rosa "Don Juan" Climbers Rosaceae →
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Unknown Rose →
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