Friday, 15 January 2021
quote [ The concept of 'a ville du quart d?heure' is that daily necessities are within a 15-minute reach on foot or by bike. ]
A little older article on the benefits of the design; Honeycomb-shaped streets would stop traffic from getting sticky
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Wednesday, 13 January 2021
quote [ The first complete map of a platypus genome has just been released, and it's every bit as strange as you'd expect from a creature with 10 sex chromosomes, a pair of venomous spurs, a coat of fluorescent fur, and skin that 'sweats' milk. ]
Symmetrical physique of disbelief
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Monday, 11 January 2021
quote [ Twenty-five recorded Pfeilstrorchs traveled 2,000 miles to Africa, got impaled, and then traveled 2,000 miles back. ]
Migrate till you drop.
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Tuesday, 5 January 2021
quote [ In Alaska, one of the longest-running and most comprehensive seabird monitoring projects is equal parts tedium, adventure, truth, and beauty. ]
When I hear those seabirds cry
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Thursday, 24 December 2020
quote [ Best known as a holiday trimming, the parasitic plant is a botanical luminary in its own right ]
And dance to the mistletoe jam
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Monday, 14 December 2020
quote [ The answer could help researchers detect bleaching events before they happen. ]
In the coral reef
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Thursday, 3 December 2020
quote [ When the wild salmon runs around Wuikinuxv, BC, were depleted, the local grizzly bears grew hungry ? and dangerous. Now, as the salmon are returning, the community is asking a challenging new question: can we include the bears in the management of the fishery? ]
''Where?" said the grizzly bear
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Tuesday, 24 November 2020
quote [ My quest to find the most endangered species revealed there are a LOT of species in big trouble ? and the most famous ones aren?t the closest to the edge. ]
You were my most endangered species
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Friday, 20 November 2020
quote [ ?Land ownership is hard to obtain for beginning farmers in general, but especially for farmers of color. Collective land ownership can not only give farmers of color the opportunity to own land and gain economic independence, but also to start building their own communities in a society that has ostracized them.? ]
The article is largely a critique of the ideas of Joel Salatin, a well known figure in modern organic agriculture, but it makes an important point about how the systematic exclusion of people of color from farming in the USA has led to fundamental problems with our food supply.
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Monday, 16 November 2020
quote [ In the past six months there have been at least 40 incidents involving Orcas off the coasts of Spain and Portugal. ]
Orca ninjas go rambo (rambo, rambo, rambo, rambo, rambo, rambo)
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