Category: Nature & The Environment
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I just posted this on Facebook and thought I should share the photo here. An African butterfly bush which I planted in early spring is flourishing in my front garden. I had never seen this plant until I found it in a nursery and decided to bring it home. This bush is not to be confused with other common butterfly bushes which attract…
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I am currently in New Delhi, staying where I always stay, in my parents' old house where I spent a large part of my youth. At the request of a friend I photographed the inside and outside of my home and posted some of the pictures on Facebook as three albums showing different parts of…
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The motto below the cat picture, "He who dislikes the cat, was in his former life, a rat." seems no longer apt. We have been seriously maligning rats, who apparently show empathetic behavior and even a degree of altruism that was hitherto unsuspected. Or maybe just unnoticed and unstudied. "The first evidence of empathy-driven helping…
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From giant oval storms on the surface of Jupiter to colourful wispy remnants from a supernova explosion and the dazzling green curtain of the Northern Lights – nearly 800 images were submitted for the latest Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
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“…Tropical Storm Irene triggered the worst natural disaster in Vermont since 1927. At least three people drowned, and two are missing; hundreds of homes were damaged or destroyed; the state’s road system was broken in so many places they have not yet been counted.”
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Up to now, the water went no farther than my counter top and the sink. The forecast is for rain starting at 6:00 PM, and going non-stop for about 14 hours. After that, my apartment in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA will get rain for 9 of the next 15 hours, bringing us up to 11:00…
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Long live the replicators — whatever and wherever they are.
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There's been plenty of rainbows and peaceful green fields juxtaposed with happy faces and natural gas logos and clip art on the TV ads from the Marcellus Shale Coalition. But some companies have been taking this a step further. Catch 'em young is the motto, so here comes the Fracosaurus, or actually Talisman Terry .…
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Post tsunami Japan, 2011 & Nagasaki, 1945: (image via Dean)
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Perceptions from Japan. Sendai, Japan WHEN the earthquake struck, I was at the hot springs in Sakunami, about 15 miles from my home in Sendai. I was playing host to a couple from Britain, and as I soaked in an open-air bath with Ben, the husband, powdery snow began to shake off the surrounding boulders.…
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In the Scientific American. (via 3 Quarks Daily)
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