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Several years ago a long-time employee of TPP's favorite neighborhood garden shoppe was offering us several perennials at significant discounts rather than trying to over winter them and sell them the next spring. And three fern-leafed peonies (Peonia tenuifolia) were among the lot, at least 3 pots labelled as such. They were a bit slow to get started but now all three produce 2 foot high mounds of very finely dissected foliage. Their single flowers are bright scarlet red,
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Alternatives to waste, alternatives to over consumption, alternatives to filling more land-fills are always welcome ideas, and here's a very nice and interesting video of upcycling in Greece. Now TPP figures that many of you are pretty conscious of and maybe even conscientious about recycling. Further many of you are in one way or another associated with universities. Now where else would be a better place to initiate the concept of upcycling than in a university town?
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Crossposting this from the microBEnet blog.
Two new papers out from the microBEnet Undergraduate Research: Built Environment Reference Genomes project:
Coil DA, Doctor JI, Lang JM, Darling AE, Eisen JA. 2013. Draft Genome Sequence of Kocuria sp. Strain UCD-OTCP (Phylum Actinobacteria). Genome Announc. 1(3):e00172-13. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00172-13.
Diep AL, Lang JM, Darling AE, Eisen JA, Coil DA. 2013. Draft genome sequence of Dietzia sp. strain UCD-THP (phylum
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Well, the "winner" of this months YAMMGM award is Beyond the Genome 2013 | Mission Bay | San Francisco
Alas, YAMMGM stands for "Yet another mostly male genomics meeting" so it is not an award to covet.
This meetings listed speakers are below with women highlighted in green.
Nicholas Navin -The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Sunney Xie – Harvard
Xu Xun – BGI
James Hicks -CSHL
Fuchou Tang – Peking
Itai Yanai – Israel
Thierry Voet - Sanger
Jacob Kitzman –
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Should we purposefully transmit messages to space? That is the question posed by a team of earth and space scientists due to an increasing number of independent groups sending purposefully directed high-intensity messages into the cosmos.
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A new fossil discovery is telling scientists more about where hummingbirds came from, and how they evolved.
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I know of only one case in the history of the modern dog fancy in which a fanciful story of a dog breed origin was rejected. And that is with the golden retriever. For first half the twentieth century, golden retrievers were said to have the following origin: The Golden Retriever is a descendant of […]
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Islands are evolutionary laboratories providing genetic isolation of any organism that disperses there with the result that new and novel species often arise that grow no where else. Then there are those species (just 1) that build boats so that they may disperse more easily, and bring with them their pigs and goats, much to the detriment of endemic species that arose in isolation from such organisms. Here's a story of a near brush with extinction, the St. Helena's ebony. Long
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From Sarah: Here are ten ways your house is like an ant’s. And here are ten cool recent dinosaur discoveries. And, also from Sarah: a new international study shows that students need sleep. I think we underestimate the impact of sleep. Our data show that across countries internationally, on average, children who have more sleep […]
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In the journals Dudley, J.T., Chen, R., Sanderford, M., Butte, A.J. & Kumar, S. 2012. Evolutionary meta-analysis of association studies reveals ancient constraints affecting disease marker discovery. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29: 2087–94. doi: 10.1093/molbev/mss079. We find that the current … Continue reading →
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This week, I tell you about these books: Jane Austen, Game Theorist; A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt - And Why They Shouldn't; The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics; The Psychopath Test; and Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts.Below the jump, I mention the books that I received recently in the mail or purchased. These are the books that I may review in more depth later, either here or in print somewhere in the world. When I
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In which I take a crack at social science. I'm collaborating on a survey of queer folks working in STEM fields! Have you taken it yet?Which history goes back farther than you knew. A historical perspective on colony collapse disorder in bees.Chicken, egg? When Republican voters understand climate science, they want someone to do something about climate change.Not even the real-world-possible version from 2001. Why the International Space Station doesn't have artificial gravity.Holy poop!
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Links this week: Marshall Sahlins says goodbye to the NAS. A review of Jared Diamond’s The World Until Yesterday that is well worth reading (HT for these first two links: Andrew Badenoch) There’s been bit of a storm over the last few days over a report by the Heritage Foundation on the cost of unlawful [...]The post A week of links appeared first on Evolving Economics.
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What do moldavium, WWII and Easter egg hunts share in common?This week's element is francium, which has the symbol Fr and the atomic number 87. Francium is a highly radioactive alkali metal that is vanishingly rare in the wild. It is the most unstable naturally-occurring element, and one of the most unstable synthetically-manufactured elements. To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever seen francium with the naked eye, and if they had seen it, they certainly would not live to tell the tale.
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