Well, this week we have Liz Lees as our Artist of the week.Liz paints people pictures and textured Oil paintings which se describes as "One person’s look at life through visual images. Every picture has a story." Liz has been drawing and painting all her life. Her first work to be noticed were the little houses she drew on the wall beside her bed in a hotel while the family were on...
Michael Pollan has really been in the news lately. His best selling book, Botany of Desire, was made into a PBS television documentary and broadcast at the end of October. He has had several feature interviews in The New York Times. In the Nov.-Jan. 2010 issue of Organic Gardening magazine, he is interviewed by editor [...]
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November 7, 2009 Many years ago, when I was an undergraduate microbiology student at McGill University in Montreal (Canada), I took a mycology course given by the Botany Department. Unlike courses in clinical mycology that I have taken, the Botany Department course surveyed fungi that live and grow in fields and forests. The professor marked our final lab session by preparing for us a dish of mushrooms...
Creative non-fiction by Brian SpareJohn and I met during a course we were both taking at Lakehead University and we became good friends over the next 11 years. John was keenly interested in botany, especially flowering plants. These were followed closely by birds. John was an avid bird watcher. Next was the natural world in general. I can’t say I shared his enthusiasm for any of these, but it...
Mycology Group AGHARKAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ARI Pune) G.G.AGARKAR ROAD PUNE - 411004 Research Associate @ Rs.16000/- + HRA. p.m ARI Project `Studies of lichenized fungi including in vitro culture and bioactive metabolites’ (MYC-1, duration up to 31.03.2011 ) Essential : MSc & PhD Biochemistry/ Botany/ Biotechnology Desirable : Knowledge of lichen collection and preservation, tissue culture...
Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants PO CIMAP Near Kukrail Picnic Spot Lucknow 226015, UP CSIR’s New HRD Initiative “ CSIR Diamond Jubilee Research Interns Awards ” ADVERTISEMENT NO.06/2009 Moving steps ahead on the new HRD initiative of CSIR stemming from Diamond Jubilee year celebration, CIMAP, a constituent national laboratory of Council of Scientific & Industrial...
Last night I had the great privilege to see and hear two of the most influential and inspiring figures in the sustainable food movement in conversation. While Michael Pollan has become a household name through books like Omnivore's Dilemma, and most recently, films like Food Inc. and The Botany of Desire , he took the interviewer's seat and gave the stage to a man who has touched so many of us who...
KERALA STATE COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT Sasthra Bhavan, Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram 695004 Kerala KSCSTE PhD FELLOWSHIPS 2009 The application will be invited from the first five rank holders in Agricultural Sciences, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology , Chemical Sciences, Earth System Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical...
"The Botany of Desire" is a very interesting PBS documentary - The program shows how four familiar species (the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato) evolved to satisfy our yearnings for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. The tulip, by gratifying our desire for a certain kind of beauty, has gotten us to take it from its origins in Central Asia and disperse it around the world....
Sorry, this is a bit late. I was so tired after my midterm last night that I couldn't write one more word. And I slept in this morning. The bad news is that I can't imagine I did well on my botany midterm since I didn't finish it, and became hopelessly confused after days of studying.The good news is I decided I need to change my orientation--after so many years as a high achiever in school--and
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Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission: Hyderabad Notification No. 12/2009 Applications are invited On-line for recruitment to the post of Lecturers in Government Degree Colleges in A.P. Collegiate Education Service. Job Details 1. Lecturer No of Posts : 1017 Pay Scale : Rs. 8000-13500 Qualification : i) Good academic record with a minimum of 55% of the marks or an equivalent Grade of B in the 7...
Here are some of the TV on DVD options available today. Art:21 ( Season 5 ) The Botany of Desire Craft in America ( Season 2 ) Doctor Who: The Black Guardian Trilogy Doctor Who: The War Games Edge of Darkness ( Complete Series ) Fraggle Rock ( Final Season ) Here’s Lucy ( Season 2 ) Mission Impossible ( Final Season ) The Rockford Files: Movie Collection The Shield ( Complete Series ) Spin City...
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Staff Selection Commission (Central Region ) Allahabad Advertisement No. CR-1/2009 Applications are invited for the following posts in the prescribed format Job Details 1. Botanical Assistant Gr. II in Botanical Survey of India , Central Circle , Allahabad No of Posts : 03 (UR) Pay Scale : PB-2 Rs. 9300-34800 with Grade Pay Rs. 4200 Age : Not exceeding 25 years (Relaxable up to 35 years for govt. servants)...
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