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Un site rencontré sur la toile il y a peu, sur les erreurs de montage des films, les anachronismes, les détails qui fachent (micros et caméras, mèches rebelles etc)… Les commentaires ne sont pas toujours intéressants mais certains valent le coup. Alors amusez vous, c’est le week-end!
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(Some English below) Lecteurs francophones, vous pouvez lire chez Tom Roud l’anatomie d’un essaimage mémétique. C’est assez intéressant, et en fait, ca fait un certain temps que je me demandais si ce genre d’analyse pouvait se trouver (j’avoue n’avoir jamais vraiment cherché cependant). Voici chose faite. Si vous avez connaissance d’autres analyses de génération mémétique, [...]
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Bathing is somewhat about preventing parasites, its solvant be it water, dust or mud. Some species like using soap. I was thinking about plants, didn’t you? Yep, certain plants use soapy mucilages and are keen on bathing…
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While I’m currently overloaded, you may read some plant stuff from BGR#3, just posted at Greg Laden’s Blog. Maybe my plant bias, but this is one more very interesting edition way worth a look if not more…
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If you still don’t know about this famous blog carnival, then I guess you’ll have the basics at Tangled Up In Blue Guy here… Moths, horses, and dicyemids are served, or you’ll fall for the possible placebo effect of quackery (everyone should have a duck as pet). This is one more interesting edition, so go read!
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Discover a very interesting painter: Olivier Clavel. Découvrez un peintre intéressant: Olivier Clavel.
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Two more planty blogs: The Reluctant Botanist Slice of the day (Thanks to Gravity’s Rainbow!) Adventures in Ethics and Science (Should’ve added this one a long time ago, and since I’m on my way becoming a regular reader… it’s time now!)
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First thought as two distinct species, the artichoke (Cynara cardunculus L. subsp. scolymus) and the cardoon (Cynara cardunculus L. subsp. cardunculus) vegetables are currently grouped together into a single species along with their wild ancestor (Cynara cardunculus L. subsp. sylvestris). Though the taxonomical debate was no way easy (just like it was for the origin of [...]
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Did you know the difference between pollenizers and pollinators? I learned it on wikipedia today. The pollinator is the animal, usually an insect, that brought up the pollen to a flower. The pollenizer is the plant that produced the pollen that was carried over. In self-compatible species, plants are thus self-pollenizers. Okay, I understand this may be [...]
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