Connaissances (Free subscription) | yesterday
Title: "A Field Guide to Surreal Botany" Edited by: Jason Erik Lundgren and Janet Chui Publisher: Two Cranes Press Format: Paperback, 76 pp ISBN: 978-981-08-1017-7 A Field Guide to Surreal Botany is an illustrated guide to 48 species of surreal plant from all corners of the globe. The guide is organised by geographic region which will prove useful for quick look up purposes. A few of the species are...
Mulholland Drive (Free subscription) | yesterday
Interesting article in Granny Herald today. All sorts of things for a campaign manager to digest.I am not too worried about the straw poll. The sample is small and the campaign has only just begun. I remember that at this...
Code Monkey Ramblings (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
New Zealand makes an inadvertent, but powerful, argument against universal suffrage:Some voters in Botany are scared to vote against the ruling party for fear of reprisal, and others think National and New Zealand First are the same party because they...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Nagercoil: The Department of Botany and Research Centre of Scott Christian College, including eminent scholars and students, conducted a survey of the sorry state of temple tanks and ponds in different parts of the district ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
COIMBATORE: The Department of Botany of Bharathiar University entered into a memorandum of understanding with Suguna Poultry Farm Limited recently. The company will provide a grant of Rs. 4 lakh to cover research inputs and remuneration ...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
In the electorate where immigrants and Asians outnumber New Zealand-born voters, confusion reigns. Some voters in Botany are scared to vote against the ruling party for fear of reprisal, and others think National and New Zealand...
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
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 [...]
Family Research (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
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 [...]
Mulholland Drive (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
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....
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
He was the botanist who earned acclaim with the discovery of dozens of rare plants in his beloved Scottish isles. In the placid world of botany the name of Professor John Heslop-Harrison generated a frisson of excitement whenever it was mentioned. But doubts about the professor's work - the discovery of a rare sedge Carex bicolor and the rush Juncus capitatus on the Hebridean island of Rhum, among...
Unqualified Offerings (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
By Thoreau Over at Scienceblogs, they’re discussing the case of a chemistry grad student who turned out to be REALLY good at organic synthesis. To me, the real issue here is not drugs and background checks. The last thing I want to do is tell a person with a criminal conviction that he cannot go to school [...]
Mulholland Drive (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
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...
ChanVinson.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
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...
Hungry Hyaena (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
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...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
Former Act MP Kenneth Wang thought launching his campaign in the new electorate of Botany with the slogan "vote Wang, get Wang and Wong" would be a clever way to re-enter Parliament on November 8. But what he is getting instead...
