Chickens! Celebrating Wildflowers - Plant of the Week - pink ladies slipper. Range map of pink ladies slipper. States are colored green where the species may be found. Pink ladies slipper (Cypripedium acaule). Photo courtesy of Susan Trull, U.S. Forest Service. Pink ladies slipper (Cypripedium acaule Ait.) By Patricia J. Pink lady's slipper is a large, showy wildflower belonging to the orchid family. The species name acaule is Latin, meaning, "stem less", referring to the plant’s leafless flowering stem. Orchids often have swollen, ball-shaped tubers that were regarded in traditional practices as having medicinal value. In order to survive and reproduce, pink lady's slipper interacts with a fungus in the soil from the Rhizoctonia genus. Pink lady’s slipper takes many years to go from seed to mature plants.
Cypripedium acaule. Pink lady's slippers also require bees for pollination. For More Information.
Ecology. Biomimicry. Climate Disruption. Biodiversity. Micro. The Toxic Gene Spill: What You Should Know About GMO Pollution. Aided by the government, biotech companies like Monsanto are pushing the commericalization of genetically modified crops without consent from the public. Without laws that require the proper labeling of GMOs, the government has denied families the right to choose what they eat. In this video released by Natural News, Institute for Responsible Technology founder Jeffrey Smith explains the genetic pollution of the world that’s being caused by GMOs. “Never before have we fed the products of an infant science to the entire population, or released it into the environment without a way to fully recall it,” Smith points out in the video.
“So we need to cap the gene spill. Put it back in the laboratory where it belongs” Watch more below: The Institute for Responsible Technology is a world leader in educating policy makers and the public about genetically modified (GM) foods and crops. Related Reading: FDA Caught Hiding The Truth About GMO Salmon.
The eyes have it: Dinosaurs hunted by night. The movie Jurassic Park got one thing right: Those velociraptors hunted by night while the big plant-eaters browsed around the clock, according to a new study of the eyes of fossil animals. The study will be published online April 14 in the journal Science. This conclusion overturns the conventional wisdom that dinosaurs were active by day while early mammals scurried around at night, said Ryosuke Motani, professor of geology at UC Davis and co-author of the paper. "It was a surprise, but it makes sense," Motani said. The research is also providing insight into how ecology influences the evolution of animal shape and form over tens of millions of years, according to Motani and collaborator Lars Schmitz, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at UC Davis.
Motani and Schmitz, a former graduate student of Motani's, worked out the dinosaur's daily habits by studying their eyes. Day-active, or diurnal, animals have a small opening in the middle of the ring. Tricks to Remember Bird calls. Rene Ebersole Published: 12/02/2010 Over the holidays you might be cooking up a big, juicy bird to feed your brood, but there’s another type of bird who seems to squawk all the time about how he’s slaving away in the kitchen: “Who cooks for you?
Who cooks for you all?” Which bird says it? Find out if you’re right, and test how well you know other bird call mnemonics, like “Drink your tea!” And “Quick, free beer!” Deciphering a bird call is much easier when it sounds like a catchy phrase. 1. 2. 3: “Quick, free beer!” 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 11. 12. Answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. September 2009. Biomimicry is a new discipline that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems.
Technology and the world has finally stopped trying to re-invent the wheel, and is starting to look at the source for new ideas that are truly sustainable, and god forbid - actually work. By looking at Evolution - you are studying a 3.8 Billion year process of trail and error that has defied what we understand as physics. (* so long as you understand the process of evolution. Then again - there are others - who ... ummm... Lets just say as I understand it - Dinosaurs are related to birds, and from around 250 million years ago to 65 million years ago really had this whole life thing down. Others - have their own version... and make coloring books about it: There is a color called "Flesh of Christ"?
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