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by whyenot 7y ago
The tree mentioned in the article, Ficus elastica is actually a plant that you may already know: it's the fig that is grown indoors as a houseplant, commonly called a rubber tree or a rubber plant. In general tropical figs are rapid
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Aren't all the employees who are now being laid off also hurt?
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Sudden oak death spreading fast, California’s coastal forests facing devastation(sfchronicle.com)
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You can get a very good education at a pubic university, for example in California's State University system, for about $6,000 a year. It wouldn't put college out of reach, it would put going to an expensive liberal arts school ou
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A digital subscription to either of them is $1 a week. I think that's actually pretty reasonable.
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That tweet is snarky, but it's also wrong. Growth chambers have indeed been commercially available for over 50 years, but a "food computer" appears to be a little different, because it also includes the plumbing and reservoir
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by whyenot 7y ago
Amazon, Apple, Disney, HBO Max, Hulu, Peacock, ..., oh, and Netflix. How many monthly memberships are people going to want to pay for, especially when there is already a huge library of free content on YouTube? Interesting times...
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by whyenot 7y ago
It could also be that this was just something he was using to look more sincere.
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> Penicillin works by killing other similar things Pencillin is an antibiotic derived from fungi (Penicillium spp.). It kills bacteria. Bacteria and fungi are in two different kingdoms on the tree of life. These two groups of organisms a
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by whyenot 7y ago
If you look at the trunk of a tree, almost all of it is actually dead. There is only a relative thin layer of tissue (the cambium) under the bark that is alive. The same is true for roots (with minor differences).
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My university is not a top tier research university like UC Berkeley by any means, but our co-generation plant is able to power the whole campus in the case of a power cut. Even when the central plant gets knocked out (a squirrel did that l
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or both, or neither. Apple’s review process is pretty opaque so we may never know. What we do know is that they changed their minds. That’s a good thing.
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bikes have tires too
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by whyenot 7y ago
This is sad, but it was also bound to happen eventually. I went to one of his talks a few years ago, and what had been billed as a one hour talk dragged on for almost 2 1/2 hours. After the first hour, people were getting up and leavin
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I never would have expected to see a Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't videos posted here. He has a whole series of videos. The language can be a little rough, but the videos are filled with interesting and accurate botanical information.
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Is there a study or something that backs up your assertion?
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> they encourage more strong high school students to apply for admission By encouraging more students to apply, they have the opportunity to turn down more applicants and appear more selective, boosting their position in college rankings
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by whyenot 7y ago
immigration detainees and prisoners are two different groups.
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by whyenot 7y ago
Photographers. Many will choose a smartphone that would work as a "b" camera. Is it really that difficult for you to come up with other examples? Here is one: I'm a botanist. I take a lot of pictures of herbarium specimens (p
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Why "random chance"? Instead, Uber could encourage more people to be "on the clock" at high demand times by increasing hourly wages during those times. It feels like you are making mountains out of molehills.
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...and yet those in the life sciences who took a more practical path, for example, nurses, are both well paid and in high demand.
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by whyenot 7y ago
The Guardian is a British newspaper, not Australian. Also, the trial took place in the United State.
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For anyone that doesn't know, the startup (Gimlet Media) was purchased by Spotify for $230M this past February.
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There is what appears to be "real competition" in the airline industry. It doesn't seem to help.
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by whyenot 7y ago
Because these are all pictures of juveniles. Not even children who were convicted of a crime, those who were arrested. Children should be able to make mistakes and to learn and recover, without a bad decision following them for the rest of
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by whyenot 7y ago
Maybe I'm being too cynical, but the ASCE giving infrastructure a D+ feel a little self serving. It's a little like the American Plastic Council highlighting people getting food poisoning from using reusable shopping bags.
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Open it in a web browser and then copy and past it into the editor as plain text.
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When I lived in San Francisco, during the aftermath of the first dot-com boom, it was not uncommon to find used syringes at the playgrounds in GG Park. I was living in an apartment in the Inner Sunset, and every could of days the building m
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by whyenot 7y ago
There is nothing wrong with genetically modified food. People in the US eat it all the time, even if they don't know it. What annoys me about articles like this is that they skirt around an obvious solution to this and other environmen
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That’s possibly true, but a position paper from a group whose stated goal is to promote the vegan diet should be regarded with some skepticism when it comes to presenting unbiased scientific facts.

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