How to get chickens in Amazonia.

Amazonia. If you want chickens, there are several possibilities. One is to go to the next grocery, one that have a freezer (that is, at least a medium size grocery), and buy there a frozen chicken. You may also buy a live one to your neighbour, but that’s more expensive and you have to kill [...]

Budding bodies

Sometimes, you have to look twice to get what’s happening. Of course, this is an advice for still life only. Or is it? Here is what I found a few days ago. Got striked by the brown body growing out of this plant. Asked myself twice, weird, it really looks like the plant was parasitised [...]

Greening cities

It’s been already pointed out in here about green plant layered walls and how it gives a very interesting look to classical architecture. (e.g.). Last Octobre, while walking with a friend visiting France (too shortly), we found this by chance (random walks are sometimes quite fruitful): -This is the vertical garden from Quai Branly, and [...]

Got. scholared. collared.

Thanks to this post at This Week in Evolution, I discovered one can have a personnal page in google scholar, to group and “revendicate” her/his papers: a recurrent issue when you jump from a field to the other is that you decrease the odds of being acknowledged as an author (“is that really the same [...]

Happy 2012!

Happy new year to you all. Joyeuse nouvelle année tout le monde! May Seeds Aside reappear* on a regular basis… :-) * I don’t know if that’s the correct orthograph, but I damn like it!