Blogger Bio-Blitz 2008

The 2008 Edition of Blogger BioBlitz took place the previous week, from september 20th to the 28th. I was not sure as to how I would be able to blitz myself this year (I did it last year at Pittsburgh, and in Northern Pennsylvania), but I eventually had the opportunity for a couple of hours [...]

BGR #9 is posted!

Berry Go Round #9 is posted at Gravity’s Rainbow. There are a lot of botanical pictures to enjoy, and this BGR edition is taking in with the best gardening has to offer: botanical gardening. Enjoy your reading there!!

Plenty plant urbanism

Okay, you’ll remember Patrick Blanc’s vertical gardens, or vertical farming (not vertical framing!), and a friend wondered about the green building thing in the previous ad. So let’s add some more green architecture after the following link…

Domestication, quickly

There’s a top post on top models there at Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog. Interesting ideas have been developped on key questions about the origin of agriculture and may be the time for a thinking shower. How fast can domestication syndrome be driven? What about multiple or single domestications? Etc. Enjoy the reading… I may have a [...]

Augenblick

Well, I’m a PC, but not to the point of advertizing it on a blog. Well, sort of. Why on hell would I do that? This might be the next Seeds Aside game… Two readers can guess “quite so fairly” easily. Unfair? Guess why! (this is a hint, and there’s another in the categories, and [...]

Blogging too much?

Blogging can turn into a very addictive obsession, not only wasting time but also potentially harming actual (as opposed to virtual) social relationships, etc (there’s even a word for this, and it’s bad!). Thanks to… fruits, I’m not completely zombified, as suggested by the following test result measuring my blogging addiction (though this is in itself [...]

Miltomate -1-

There’s a green sauce in your tacos. Fresh, acid, fruity. This sauce is traditionally made from a little American fruit, the miltomate. Or tomatillo, your taste. And guess what? This is a post all about this strange crop.
Even the species scientific name is sweet: Physalis philadelphica. This is a member of the economically star botanical [...]

Veggie meme

There’s a veggie meme running these days, and surprisingly, there’s been a number of stuff listed that I’ve eaten already, so I’m not too ashamed of taking my turn. Given prices for meats in France, I’ve been practicing ‘vegetarianism’ by economic necessity as a late student, so I guess it somewhat helped a bit. What’s [...]

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Music sharing. Amadou and Mariam (official website here):
Senegal fast food (with Manu Chao)

Je pense a toi

Homology arguments of others

Could an utterly irritating site like Conservapedia *, be a useful resource for teaching (and thus deserve the original meaning of encyclopedia)? Well, as weird as it seems at first sight, there’s a post up there at Botanizing showing that, yes, it can…

* As a note to my few readers who are ignorant of this very [...]