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Busy preparing academic applications. Coming back soon…
Occupé à préparer mes dossiers de candidature. Je reviens bientôt…
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(un peu de français ci dessous…)
MALE PEREGRINES FIGHT FOR NESTING RIGHTS AT PITT’S CATHEDRAL OF LEARNING. On Sunday, March 18, beginning shortly after 9 a.m., two male peregrines locked talons and engaged in a battle to claim ownership of the peregrine nest atop Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning; a nest that has successfully hatched peregrines since 2002. [...]
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PS. Dites moi si vous tenez absolument à voir tout traduit ici? (hé, ça prend du temps tout de même! *) … Combien d’entre vous sont absolument réticents à la lecture d’un peu d’anglais? (Dans la même série, utilisez-vous le Tag “français” sur le menu à droite pour trier illico le contenu français de ce journal-pas-si-intime?). [...]
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Darwin avait raison (bon, je sais, on le savait déjà! Mais il en est qui voulaient une traduction…).
Tout comme la plupart des plantes à fleur, les orchidées produisent des milliers de grains de pollen. Mais au lieu de les larguer aléatoirement aux pollinisateurs de visite, elles en font un seul paquet cadeau (Bon… heu, en [...]
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Flowers have to attract pollinators. They cannot escape this basic necessity. Something has to bring pollen grains onto stigma anyway, to fertilize ovules and let them produce seeds. In most plant species, this is done by insects…
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Les fleurs ont l’impérative nécessité d’attirer à elle des pollinisateurs, c’est indéniable. Il faut bien que quelqu’un s’occupe d’apporter les grains de pollen qui vont fertiliser les ovules qui n’attendent que cette occasion pour reprendre leur développement et donner des petites graines. Et chez la plupart des plantes, les vecteurs du pollen sont les insectes…
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Darwin was right.
Just like any flowering plants, orchids produce thousands of pollen grains. But instead of releasing these through random patches to visiting pollinators, they offer them as a single package (err… hum, actually as two packages, but as a single gift).
Pollinia. This is the name for this orchidian oddity. Actually, asclepiads is the other [...]
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Yep, probably nothing clover to say… And yep again, pink is the colour for elephants, even more on leprechaun’s day! I wish you to solve the issue of speciation today! Hallo?
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Update (March 13th): I wasn’t there for I don’t have much time these days, but you can have a look at the posts or the chatting transcript. Hopefully I come back soon…
Lynn Margulis will be hosted on blogs for a few posts, and will adress questions from internautes. She will at least be hosted at [...]
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I’m featured (hey, I volunteered ;-) so that’s it!!), on COTS #18 (cot cot cot codec! Stands for Circus of the Spineless), there on Pharyngula, the blogest blogish blog. This circus’ edition is highly picturesque, and has a big gallery. I don’t tell: go see and read!
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