When I was growing up, I always had a certain affinity for mosquitos. Not so much that I liked them, or kept them as pets, but given me and a group of people I was their goto buffet. You always hear theories of “they like blondes” or “you ate a banana for lunch”, but be […]
Botany Thought Of The Day: Little Shop of Horrors
Today’s post is adapted from Dr. Hans-Hermann Thulke of the University of Gottingen study published in The American NaturalistPlants are able to make complex decisions and assess risks and adopt strategies based on the circumstances to maximize chances of producing offspring.The study focused on the European Barberry (Berberis vulgaris) plants and a specialized species of […]
Astronomy Thought Of The Day: Small Bang?
I didn’t get to this earlier today as I had hoped, and really wanted to talk about probablity or NASA funding, but that will have to be saved for the future.A few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, hydrogen gas started to heat up and the first stars were formed. One of these first […]