Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Llareta in the Andes, Corn in Kaua'i, and GMOs: Slow Versus Fast Growth

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     Llareta is the extremely slow-growing evergreen plant featured on yesterday's  NPR Science Friday blog:      Yes, llareta...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Tortoises, Putnisite, John Cleese, and Better Creativity Tools, According to SCIENCE!

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     This week I'd like to start with an article about creativity and writing which is, according to the Fast Company title, backed up ...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Blood Oranges, Crustaceans, and the Moon

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       Wow! The lunar eclipse last night was amazing. The moon was the color of a blood orange for quite awhile after the eclipse: ...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

M & M: Mercury & Mars: Erupting and Aligning

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      Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system (sorry, Pluto), is the site for numerous pyroclastic or volcanic eruptions:    ...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Happy April Fuels Day or There's no Fuel like an Old Fuel

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    Yeah, everyone talks about April Fools today but no one talks about April Fuels.       To you, Garamond font-savvy crew, I im...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Fossilized Swedish Ferns: Don't Step on My Toe, Sis!

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       The beauty of this 180 million-year-old fossilized fern from southern Sweden shows cells in various stages of mitosis. It combines...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Shamrock Shake, Waverly Person, and the Moment Magnitude Scale

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      Next week marks the 1/2 year anniversary of Partial Ellipsis of the Sun. Thanks for your support, humor, questions, and blog ideas. I...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Even If It's Greek to You, It's Greek to You: An Early Analog Computer

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      I have been dreaming of Greek mathematicians, blue waters, and green islands this week in our swirling March snowstorm. And, especiall...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

PP1: An Enzyme that Really Gets Around

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        My bogarted zircon article was explored in the comments last week so let's radically switch gears and party on...to the human e...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Barite or Baryte: A View from Cobachi, Sonora, Mexico

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          Barite (spelled baryte everywhere besides the U.S) is a heavy, non-magnetic mineral with very high s...
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