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12:00 PM | October 31, 2012
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The link between Halloween, corn, and pumpkins has more to do with harvest time than vampires or ghosts. But there is a lot of biology in Halloween, and it’s not because biology is scary.Dead (or undead) humans have often been associated with the "dying" of summer and the end of the growing season. The Celts believed that there was a link between the death of the growing period and the affects that the dead could have on the sun's life-giving power. Thus, Halloween and Fall have always […]
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