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• Botany of Desire - bonus video

  
  Garden Fresh Living — Authority: 113
  I dont know how many of you saw The Botany of Desire on PBS, but it was fabulous. It is based on the book by Michael Pollan.If you missed it, you can watch the full-length program HERE. You can also...
  7 hours ago

• Cat Ladies

  
  Fire In The Bones — Authority: 106
  So it turns out that in some places with wise city fathers it will soon be illegal to own more than three cats at a time . This is: a)     Good. My cat allergy + my current hosts’ four cats (also a drooling, shedding dog ) + the person who lives here who likes cats threatening to get more cats + the person ...
  17 hours ago

• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 106
  You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
  20 hours ago

• Michael Pollan’s plant’s-eye view

  
  Open Learning — Authority: 99
    Michael Pollan’s best-selling book, Botany of Desire , is now a film, and you can watch it online, courtesy of PBS . (Click to watch complete film.) The film takes you inside our relationship with the plant world, and shows “how four familiar species — the apple, the tulip, cannabis and the potato — ...
  3 days ago

• Keeping Things in Perspective

  
  Bipolar Wellness Writer — Authority: 122
  Sorry, this is a bit late. I was so tired after my midterm last night that I couldnt write one more word. And I slept in this morning. The bad news is that I cant imagine I did well on my botany midterm since I didnt finish it, and became hopelessly confused after days of studying.The good news is I decided I need to ...
  5 days ago

• November 4, 1855 (a Sunday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 122
  On this date, the botanist Frederick Orpen Bower was born in Ripon, England. His study of primitive land plants, especially the ferns, contributed greatly to a modern emphasis on the study of the origins and evolutionary development of these plants. A man who did not shy away from theorizing, one of his most ...
  5 days ago

• This Week In DVD: November 3rd

  
  Film School Rejects — Authority: 660
  Rob Hunter loves movies.  He also loves working as Roger Thornhill’s personal drycleaner… between the dust-ups and the crop dusters, Thornhill has lots of suits in need of cleaning. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more ...
  6 days ago

• TV on DVD: November 3, 2009

  
  TV Envy — Authority: 439
  Here are some of the TV on DVD options available today. Art:21 ( Season 5 ) The Botany of Desire Craft in America ( Season 2 ) Doctor Who: The Black Guardian Trilogy Doctor Who: The War Games Edge of Darkness ( Complete Series ) Fraggle Rock ( Final Season ) Here’s Lucy ( Season 2 ) ...
  6 days ago

• Lesson of the Ancient Nazcas: Deforestation Can Kill a Civilization

  
  80beats — Authority: 656
  From an ancient Peruvian civilization comes this warning: Don’t chop down all your trees, or there will be hell to pay. The Nazca people are famous for the enormous earthworks they carved into an arid plateau, in designs that range from simple geometrical forms to representations of animals like hummingbirds, ...
  6 days ago

• Deforestation the Death of Nazca Civilization

  
  Newsvine - MinnieApolis's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 427
  The mystery of the disappearance of the vanished Nazca people, the same ones who are known for the many fanciful designs etched into the desert plateau, may have been solved. Scientists found pollen from a vanished nitrogen-fixing tree, the huarango.
  6 days ago

• TV on DVD for 10/3/09 – The Shield Redux and Disney’s Zorro

  
  seanax.com — Authority: 124
  The Shield: The Complete Series Collection (Sony) – The Shield debuted on the FX cable channel early in 2002 and almost immediately shook up television by pushing the boundaries of violence and sexual content on commercial cable and blurring the line between good cop and bad cop with the most morally spellbinding ...
  6 days ago

• A Strange System: Food: Blue Baby Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 106
  Time to get back on the horse after a week of midterms. Nitrogen was the primary limiting nutrient in terrestrial ecosystems.  Nitrogen levels could be increased by using composted organic material, but that took a long period of time and was hard work.  Keep that in mind.  World War II is raging and ammonia is ...
  1 week ago

• Nature Study - Pond Resources

  
  Our Journey Westward — Authority: 417
  What a wonderful month studying ponds!  Here are the resources that have been in the sidebar.  November = rocks!
  1 week ago

• (Español): Título: “Pareja botánica”

  
  skineart.com — Authority: 158
  (Español): Título: “Pareja botánica”-”Botany partner”. Técnica: Rotulador negro Pilot 0′5 V ball grip y acuarelas de colores. —ooo— (English): Title: “Pareja botánica”-”Botany partner”. Technique: Marker black Pilot V Ball grip 0′5 and watercolors of colors.
  1 week ago

• Berry Go Round #21

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 515
  Welcome to Berry Go Round issue #21.  As a first time host of this – or any – blog carnival, I can tell you that it has not only been more work than I could have imagined, but also a lot more fun!  I’ve read, learned, and marveled at the diversity of knowledge presented by [...]
  1 week ago

• Learning About the Patent Bar Exam

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 154
  If you are intent on attending college and taking college courses throughout your education, there are definitely quite a number of possibilities after you graduate with a Bachelor’s degree. One of those possibilities is to follow a Patent Agent or Patent Attorney career path. This can only be achieved, however, ...
  1 week ago

• Botany Cemetery and Eastern Suburbs Crematorium

  
  Sydney Daily Photo — Authority: 127
  I wonder how it went? Sadly, I had other things to do!
  1 week ago

• The Botany of Desire Documentary

  
  More to Explore — Authority: 122
  by Katie Bowell, Curator of Cultural Interpretation A new PBS documentary, The Botany of Desire , premiered last night. Based on Michael Pollan’s book of the same name, the documentary follows the history of four domesticated plants: tulips, marijuana, potatoes, and apples, and looks at the ways those ...
  1 week ago

• Don’t Miss “The Botany of Desire” on PBS Tonight!

  
  Eden Makers Blog — Authority: 110
  Plant enthusiast alert: PBS television will be presenting the compelling show, the “Botany of Desire” tonight, Thursday, Oct. 29 (check for time in your local listing). “ The program shows how four familiar species (the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato) evolved to satisfy our yearnings for ...
  1 week ago

• Mosquito Plants Explained

  
  Gardening Resources — Authority: 138
  Since you are reading this, chances are you are wondering about these mosquito plants. They seem like a great idea, doing everything organically to keep away plants. The question is: Do mosquito plants do the trick? Before looking at how effective it is, let?s understand the mosquito plant itself. The mosquito ...
  1 week ago

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