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On the Origin of Flowers

December 15, 2009

A few posts ago, I told you that star anise is interesting because it belongs to a group of plants that split from the rest of the other flowering plants early on, and that for a long time, scientists felt plants like these retained a lot of the features of the first flowers.
Scientists think that [...]

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Darwin in Love

July 3, 2009

He had two loves: biology, and his wife Emma. They didn’t always agree.

Yes, sometime this year, we will get to see two talented actors, Paul Bettany (Master and Commander, A Beautiful Mind) and Jennifer Connelly (who was the young girl in Labyrinth, and also in A Beautiful Mind, for which she won a Best Supporting [...]

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My First Biodiversity Talk

June 14, 2009

The title of this post was inspired by John Cleese (with a dash of Scrubs). When I was in school in Ithaca, Cornell named him an honorary professor and invited him to speak at our interfaith chapel. I showed up on Sunday to find the title of his talk in plastic stick-on letters on the [...]

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A Stirring and Beautiful Journey Through Time

June 4, 2009

It’s been 4.5 billion years since Earth formed, and oh, what a long, strange trip it’s been. National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting has created a beautiful slide show set to music about the evolution of life on Earth to help you experience it in considerably less time.
The online version consists of 86 photographs with crisp [...]

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