Science News / Obama's New Directive On Energy Efficiency
President Obama gave a brief lunch-time pep talk to Department of Energy staff today. It contained a lot of the bromides that he spouted during his campaign. Like the fact that we must end the tyranny of oil, spark the creation of a clean energy ... [... more]
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Science News / 2008: Science News Of The Year
Home / January 3rd, 2009; Vol.175 #1 / Feature 2008: Science news of the year Science News editors and writers survey the top news from the world of science in 2008. The selected stories are featured in this year-end issue, with links to the ... [... more]
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Duck difficulties
Enlarge OPPOSITES ATTRACT?Mallard duck anatomy shows signs of an escalating battle of the sexes. The male has a long phallus (bottom), but the female genitals (top) corkscrew in the opposite direction.P. Brennan That kind of scenario might have ... [... more]
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Making Sense of Botanical Names
There was a story going around recently about an English-speaking woman who was visiting China and felt very lost because she could not communicate with the people very well. Being an avid gardener, she, of course, visited some of the beautiful ... [... more]
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Science News / Heat Waves Stunt Grassland Growth
One hot year can create a scenario that stifles prairie plants even after the heat wave Home / News / News item Heat waves stunt grassland growth One hot year can create a scenario that stifles prairie plants even after the heat wave By Sid ... [... more]
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Science News / Parasite Godzilla
Parasites are small but have a big impact. An estuary study reveals that these little annoyances add up to a lot of biomass. Home / News / News item Parasite Godzilla Parasites are small but have a big impact. An estuary study reveals that these ... [... more]
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Science News / Why Turn Red?
Home / October 26th, 2002; Vol.162 #17 / Feature Why Turn Red? The autumn leaf is toast, but it still redecorates [... more]
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The Meaning of Trees: Botany, History, Healing, Lore
 The Meaning of Trees: Nice photos and good discriptions of trees. The accompaning mythological lore is quite interesting also. A substantial, weighty and high quality book in terms of print and paper quality also. A very nice coffee table volume. [... more]
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Exploring Creation With Botany (Young Explorers)
What? We're through the book already?: Not a bad science curriculum, but you do the math. 13 lessons total. There are normally about 36 weeks in a typical school year. We tried to stretch it out as long as possible but we've already finished with this [... more]
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Botany for Gardeners
Book Description: A bestseller since its debut in 1990, this indispensable and handy reference has now been expanded and updated to include an appendix on plant taxonomy and a comprehensive index. Two dozen new photos and illustrations make this new [... more]
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A Photographic Atlas for the Botany Lab
Wonderfully illustrative and informative: This book has been a great help to me for Botany, especially Botany labs. It has pictures on the micro- and macroscopic levels of plants with captions that label and describe function. A great book to have [... more]
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Botany Illustrated: Introduction to Plants, Major ...
Very user friendly botany book: Very pleased that this is both a botany book, covering basic principles of botany, and at the same time an 'adult' colouring book (a la Anatomy or Physiology colouring books), which allows you to actively reinforce your [... more]
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