Freedom of pish

People may look at you, wondering. But there’s more: birds may also look at you, wondering. If you want to know what pishing is all about, there’s even a training video for you! Just here. And I know, I should explain more what is to be expected after the link, but that would really spoil [...]

Ouvrez les frontières!

Une chanson de Tiken Jah Fakoly, accompagné par Soprano. (Open the borders!). Nice song and clip from Tiken Jah Fakoly with Soprano.

Pour garder la pêche, il faut voir rouge!*

Les fruits. Les fruits c’est bon. Les fruits c’est bon pour toi. Et tu le sais bien (il suffit de regarder la télévision, écouter la radio, voire prendre le métro. Pris d’une soudaine envie de pêche (et manque de bol, la saison vient de s’achever), il me vient cette question saugenue: est-il des fruits meilleurs [...]

Breaking news: Plant autophagy

Well, breaking news for me at least. Weird things happen when you’re busy searching for references. You may be stuck by some really peculiar development of scientific research, one you would barely have thought of. Like this one. Plant autophagy. Typically a nominee for the “word of the week” category.

You should look twice…

But don’t think twice! This might happen to you!

Freakin’ true…

Well, I didn’t as much (only one post-doc), but still would do so. CLICK HERE. J’en n’ai pas encore fait autant, mais suis quasiment dans la même situation.

Rock pink rocks! A tale of two sexes

Rock pinks, members of a species known as Dianthus sylvestris, are long-lived perennial herbs that are rather common throughout the Alps. The species is gynomonoecious-gynodioecious, and now that you know about plant sexes, you translate this rather tedious jargon into the following greeny sexy sex taxinomy: this species has female-, hermaphroditic individuals, and “undecided” (gynomonoecious) plants [...]

Easy Fast Good Recipe

(En français ci dessous/French below) I love science because the success rate for experiments is greater than in cooking, and even when results do not match expectations much, you can still publish something. Imagine a second people publishing their worst kitchen experiments (hopefully with warnings such as “don’t try this at home”) … But here [...]

Stick insects stick to their diet

That is, they don’t leave their leaves… A recent study* tested the influence of leaf age on choice in four species of phasmids from Malaysia, two specialist species (i.e. choosy insects feeding on a few specific plants), and two generalists (feeding on a broad spectrum of plant hosts).

La réformabilité est-elle soluble dans la grève?

Un peu de lecture, fort intéressante au demeurant… Sur le déclin de la France, ici. Si cela ne tenait qu’à moi, je vous dirais bien que la situation Outre-Atlantique n’est pas aussi fameuse qu’elle en a l’air, mais bon, ici vous avez des chiffres en plus! Et c’est bon, ça, les chiffres. Est-il temps pour [...]