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Science & Soul
http://scienceguy288.wordpress.com
A mixture of science news and information with "a lil' bit o' soul."
- Added on: Oct 4th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: scienceguy288
- Listed in: Science Activism
- Tags: science Ecology Nature zoology biology bioengineering
Recent Posts
A Strange System: Food: What We Can Do
I’m all ranted out for now, so I shall bring this series to a close. I have hinted at a number of things we, the average consumer, can do to improve the system. So, to finish off the series, I am posting a list created by a professor of Env...
A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues
You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket. Apples in June. Watermelons in February. Oranges in December. Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season. So how do we have these ...
A Strange System: Food: Blue Baby Blues
Time to get back on the horse after a week of midterms. Nitrogen was the primary limiting nutrient in terrestrial ecosystems. Nitrogen levels could be increased by using composted organic material, but that took a long period of time and was hard w...
A Strange System: Food: Too Corny
Too Corny Corn is a wonderful vegetable. Admittedly, the stuff we consider corn is actually maize, but I’m not here to argue semantics. The kernel of maize is a mature ovary of fruit fused with a seed coat. Corn can be eaten raw, cooked...
New Series: A Strange System: Food: The Stage is Set
It has been a while since my last official series on this blog. I have been reading several books and watching several films on this subject. Food is an important facet of our existence, for obvious reasons. And yet, for some strange reason, fe...
Science and Soul: Earthquakes
This year’s Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to three Americans for their discovery of the importance of telomerase in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer. Elizabeth H. Blackburn ...
