Second Berry!

It’s with a great pleasure that I announce today a second edition for BG! Berry Go Round #2 is up at Further Thoughts. This crop is amazingly diverse. You’ll read there about yicks and yields, be it strawberry in your eyes or… cycling tides. Or… Hahem, well, go read anyway!

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Freegan Cool Logo

I found a really cool Logo associated with freeganism. Just to add colours to this blog… :-)

Voici un Logo supposé représenter le déchétarianisme. Ca rajoute des couleurs à ce blog, en tout cas je le trouve sympathique… :-)

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La salade du déchétarien…

Bien que sympathisant acquis à la philosophie déchétarienne, je ne maraude pas activement outre-mesure au cours de mes journées (ne me privant certainement pas au demeurant de garder un oeil intéressé aux poubelles à la recherche de meubles divers). A l’exception d’aujourd’hui, mais il faut avouer que des baies rouges ont un attrait quasi irrésistible (quoique que ce soit finalement leur principale raison d’être). Je n’ai donc pas su résister au charme de sauver ces légumes appétissants, pour leur bien et pour le mien…

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A freegan ride, or why “junk food” can be quite healthy…

Though somewhat sympathetical to the freegan philosophy, I usually don’t actively forage my way through (while on the other hand I always keep a look into garbage for furnitures). Today is a notable exception, for red berries have an incredible mouth-appeal (indeed, that’s what they’ve been selected for). So I could not resist to save these veggies and took my pick.

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Why beer is bad for me…

I would do even worse if I were drinking more beer, so that it’s not worth. That’s just it!

(HT This week in evolution).

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Effect of global warming on plant communities

There are many ways to consider the ongoing and futur consequences of global warming. Surveying for temperature increases is a physicists way, biology needs more of course. Especially, dealing at broad scales such as the community level, involving response and interaction of multiple species, is somewhat not always obvious. In the following study*, this was actually fairly simple (hey, in terms of protocole I mean, I don’t argue that undertaking the experiment was just easy): going through transplantations (local as a control and via a decrease in latitude to simulate climate warming as the test).

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A bit for bat

Massimo Pigliucci summarizes a recent paper in nature about the long standing question as to whether bats evolved flight or echolocation first. Answer developped there. Case closed. Or is it?

You’ll find in his post a marvellous point about science:

But that is what’s truly amazing about science: you can literally wake up one morning and find that someone has figured out the answer to a question that has vexed people for decades, sometimes centuries.

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Cool tods lot

Found today. A way cool game for kids. That’s a safari game and you have to make pictures of animals. It’s amazing, and my daughter had some really good shots with several animals side by side. I didn’t do better than she did.

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Tangled Bank #99

The 99th edition of Tangled Bank is up at Greg Laden’s Blog. Lots of good posts. Just go read…

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Hide the Truth!

Funny but unfortunately so true…

(HT Pharyngula).

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