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by gizmo59
on Sun Oct 27, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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These�vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same ...
by Lenny Flank
on Tue Oct 29, 2024 at 12:55 PM PDT
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One of the reasons that public education is often hated in this country is that many people like simple answers to difficult questions. As I noted in a diary on outreach a while back, when I was invited to speak on insects at a fundamentalist school, I...
by Desert Scientist
on Mon Jun 03, 2024 at 01:17 PM PDT
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I've followed the general outlines of artificial abiogenesis experiments for decades now, but I did not see this coming. (And my apologies to any actual biologists who knew about this line of reseach ages ago and find this old news.) First some...
by JMcDonald
on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 01:45 PM PDT
with 200 Recommends
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This is footage from a hearing on a Transgender Bathroom bill in Ohio. All of it is fascinating but the most relevant portion 13:55 when Ranking Member Joe Miller (D) contrasts this bill with Racist Jim Crow laws, and the tendency to otherize people...
by Frank Vyan Walton
on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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While I’ve been filming the birds at my Huntsville feeder, I’ve also been watching the squirrels. One of the biggest and baddest of the lot is a male with a torn ear. This boar seems to be the dominant male, and I’ve watched him chase other males away...
by backwoodsbob
on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 10:36 AM PST
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Sympoesis Despite the widely inaccurate view that we live in or on an environment and must therefore protect what we depend on, we are made up of environments (4 billion years worth of co-evolving associations, living and non-living) and moreover,...
by Campion
on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 01:19 PM PST
with 3 Recommends
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Like Christmas trees, Santa and reindeer, the poinsettia has long been a ubiquitous symbol of the holiday season in the U.S. and across Europe.
But now, nearly 200 years after the plant with the ...
by Associated Press
on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 01:00 PM PST
with 161 Recommends
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I honestly don’t remember when or how I found out how human reproduction works. By the time my mother made my father have “The Talk” with me — because that is how that dynamic generally works, errr, I’ve been told — he asked me if I knew how that went...
by skralyx
on Fri Nov 24, 2023 at 10:24 PM PST
with 248 Recommends
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I came upon a pile of feathers a few days ago while walking my dogs through Hutt Park . Hutt Park is a small pocket of allegedly remnant old-growth�forest no more than 2 acres in area nestled among ...
by BrownsBay
on Wed Oct 25, 2023 at 06:30 AM PDT
with 48 Recommends
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Autoimmune disorders — where the immune system mistakes something harmless in the body for a pathogen or threat — are not much fun for the people who are stuck with them. And these disorders have been gradually increasing in prevalence over the last...
by skralyx
on Fri Sep 15, 2023 at 08:32 PM PDT
with 712 Recommends
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Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors...
by Rise above the swamp
on Sat Jul 29, 2023 at 08:58 PM PDT
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Four birds named Ōtepoti, Bunker, Motupōhue, and Māhutonga were released July 19 onto Te Ika-a-Māui (the North Island) of New Zealand. They are the first kākāpō to walk the mainland in four decades. Kākāpō live nowhere else in the world. New Zealand...
by skralyx
on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 08:19 PM PDT
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More than 500 million years ago, the three living groups of chordates — the ones with backbonish structures — went our separate ways. These are the cephalochordates (lancelets), the tunicates (sea squirts, salps, and some others), and the vertebrates....
by skralyx
on Fri Jul 07, 2023 at 09:11 PM PDT
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It’s been a really good week for bivalves. Why, just a week ago in the journal Science we found out that the shell hinge from the freshwater cockscomb mussel can be opened and closed 1,500,000 times in succession without suffering any fatigue damage...
by skralyx
on Fri Jun 30, 2023 at 10:08 PM PDT
with 266 Recommends
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I’m sure you remember the Cassini mission to Saturn. What I remember most about it is that my daughter, who is about to attend college in the fall, used to love to watch videos about it when she was barely old enough to speak. “Cassini!” she would...
by skralyx
on Thu Jun 15, 2023 at 08:03 PM PDT
with 381 Recommends
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When I was first hired at the university as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, I was expected to conduct and publish new research on biological control, teach occasional classes, and monitor college and graduate students through their projects....
by Desert Scientist
on Thu Jun 29, 2023 at 01:07 PM PDT
with 26 Recommends
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by gizmo59
on Sun Jun 04, 2023 at 07:07 PM PDT
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We’ve been trying to mount an effective response to Alzheimer’s disease for about a century now, but unfortunately we haven’t made a whole lot of progress in understanding it, let alone curing it. But a study whose very nature meant it would take...
by skralyx
on Tue May 16, 2023 at 07:34 PM PDT
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Personal Experience: What it is and why we have it (a treatise on consciousness) By Thomas Crown A non-fiction book that solves some of the hard problems of consciousness 150 pages Preface I am not qualified to write this book… on paper. I am not a...
by 40ford
on Tue May 09, 2023 at 03:50 PM PDT
with 4 Recommends
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