After three days of almost incessant rain, I got up one morning to find that one of my cacti had gone berserk.
And just as suddenly, a couple of days later, all those flowers were limp and dessicated. That set me to wondering about the synchrony of flowering in cacti. Many are pollinated by bird...
Another great sciencish headline:
No, but it’ll probably speed the evolution of resistance.
Strategy: one, engineer HIV antibodies into maize; two, feed maize to people; three, halt transmission of HIV. Which is where the reasoning stops. Step four, I would sugges...
The whole question of framing science has passed me by, mostly because I have had nothing to add. But this headline brought me up short.
Researchers Identify Genetic “Fix” for Problem in Some Sweet Corn Hybrids.
A news story from the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of...
Luigi nibbled the fact that back in the UK Nettle Awareness Week started on Saturday 17th May. Who knew? He pointed to a lovely post at the CABI blog, which goes into nettles in more depth than many people might desire. We lapped it up, of course, and I am minded to share a couple of my own refl...
The winter here at Monteverde Mansions has been a little anxious in at least one regard. Just after we moved in late last autumn, knowing of my passion for them, dear friends gave me a fine, sturdy little frangipani. It even had leaves. All I had to do was see it through the winter and maybe, just m...
