LICHEN EATS UP STONESBut how could such feeble creatures. Mr. Lichen always travels light. On the surface of the lichens are what seem to be little grains of dust, and these serve the purpose of seeds. A puff of wind will carry away thousands of them, and so start new colonies in lands remote. You see, the fact that he requires so little baggage must have been a great advantage to Mr. Lichen in those early days, when he had to discover not only America but all the rest of the world map, spread out so wide and far. You can just imagine how the grains of lichen dust, the seed of the race, must have gone whirling across the world with the winds.
But if a breath of wind would carry them away so easily, how could they _stay_ on a rock, these tiny lichen travellers? As we all know, little people are great eaters in proportion to their size, but it is said the lichens are the heartiest eaters in the world. Yet, you'd wonder what they do with the food they eat--most of them grow so slowly.
Rusty's Reading List. Rusty Rockets recommends the following reading material for your edification. Simply the best of the crop of recent science related titles... Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?) Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw (2009) ISBN: 0306817586 E=mc2 is part of pop culture, but how many of us know what it actually means? There have been many attempts to explain this snippet of a larger equation, but few if any have done so in such a lucid, accessible and entertaining manner as professor of particle physics Brian Cox and professor of theoretical physics Jeff Forshaw. Cox and Forshaw break down the equation into its basic constituents to discover the iconic equation's true meaning, which come down to three fundamental questions: What is mass?
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist Thomas Levenson (2009) ISBN: 0151012784 Here's a story that is sure to get your goat. If people on acid see pink elephants, what do elephants that take acid see? Audible.com.