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www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Life Sciences: A life science project examines some aspect of the life or lifestyle of a non-human organism. Life science projects include botany and zoology, as well as psychology Source: apps.ysf-fsj.ca NYS 4-H Animal Science Youth Programs - Cornell University school and after school activities such as Incubation and Embryology, In Touch [...]
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Family Research (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Source: Original data: Chanter, John Frederick.. A history of the parishes of Lynton and Countisbury : their antiquities, manors, churches and families, and some account of the natural history and botany of the neighbourhood. Exeter: J.G. Commin, 1907. Notes: “With illustrations, plans, sections and genealogies.” Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Lynton [...]
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Mulholland Drive (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Thanks Pansy! This is now on the front page of the local rag all over Botany.Can't wait for that complaint to come through - and now you've publicly committed to it, you have to do it. Good luck with that....
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Mulholland Drive (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Credit where credit is due, and Labour's Botany Candidate has come up with a very amusing press release:Labour Honoured To Receive National Party EndorsementI acknowledge and accept the endorsement of the National candidate for Botany, Pansy Wong, who yesterday in...
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ChanVinson.com (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Barbate Barbate means tufted or furnished with hairs; bearded. The Psalms note that Aaron possessed a barbate face. (Psalm 133:2) It is like the precious oil upon the head, Coming down upon the beard, Even Aaron's beard, Coming down upon the edge of his robes. (Psalm 133:2, NASB) In botany, Cymbalaria muralis, Hypericum calycinum, Saxifraga stolonifera, and Opuntia leucotricha all can be known as "Aaron's...
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Hungry Hyaena (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Michael Pollan working his garden Curator Jodie Vicenta Jacobson cites Michael Pollan 's The Botany of Desire as inspiration for " Implant ," a Horticultural Society of New York exhibition sponsored and hosted by the international financial firm UBS . Jacobson is especially interested in Pollan's assertion that plants "use us" to further their evolutionary objectives. Although the notion that "plants...
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Sandwalk (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
First we had a link to the oldest living thing on Earth [Botany Photo of the Day and the Oldest Living Organism] and now we link to the oldest thing on Earth [Oldest Rocks on Earth Discovered']. These rocks are found in the Nuvvuagittuq region of Hudson Bay in Northwestern Quebec (Canada). As part of the Canadian shield they have long been known to be among the oldest rocks on Earth. Some of
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Sandwalk (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
The oldest known organism on the planet is about 4,800 years old. Find out what that has to do with the Botany Photo of the Day. It is often very hard to tell the difference between various species of pine. One of the distinguishing characteristics of this species (left) is that it has five needles per cluster. Other species have one, two, or three. I don't know if there is a species with four
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Hooting Yard (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
You will be familiar with the slow food movement, particularly if you are a Guardian reader living in an ecotown. Less high profile, but more amenable to the Hooting Yard demographic, is slow botany. So I am going to tell you all about it. Slow botany developed as a reaction against all those people who go [...]
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ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Dubai-based hospitality management group Jumeirah has been appointed by Timbers Resorts to manage a luxury multi-use resort on St. Thomas, one of the US Virgin Islands.
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www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Life science projects include botany, zoology as well as psychology and kinesiology of non-human organisms. Examining plant growth or animal behavior are examples of a Source: www.cysf.org Copenhagen an attractive region for life-science investments Life science projects in top-15 European city regions, 2004-2006 Note: Copenhagen includes Frederiksborg and Roskilde Source: Ernst & [...]
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Sterling Adventures (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
I've dived on the Great Barrier Reef before, but never anywhere else in Australia, so I figured a couple of days in Sydney would be educational. Today I did two dives at a site called Voodoo...
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Police State Britain (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Britain's biggest anti-terrorist investigation was seen by police as an opportunity to pay credit card bills, take luxury holidays and stay at The Savoy Hotel. Volunteers were told that shifts, believed to be paid at £300 each, would give them time to "read a good book, take up botany or ornithology, study for your sergeant’s exam (or) work out the compound interest on a rest day’s pay". Emails circulated...
