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To be a botanist today is to choose your words carefully. In her new book, The Light Eaters, Zoe Schlanger details the caution with which botanists ascribe intelligence to plants. Some only dare say plants can “sense”—they are like machines receiving stimuli and outputting an appropriate response. Other botanists take a small risk in the eyes of their peers to ascribe plants with “behavior.” There are fewer still who are …

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Review by Frances S: Violet Trefusis, (1894-1972), was the daughter of Alice Keppel, wife of George Keppel, a son of the 7th Earl of Albemarle. When Violet was four years old, her mother became the favourite mistress of the then Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). Violet grew up as a cosmopolitan socialite and became a writer, part of the notoriously avant-garde ‘Bloomsbury Set’. She was fluent in French …

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (November 18, 2024 - November 25, 2024). Enjoy! Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure - Other Software Dev - Tech and Science - Leadership - Project Management / Agile - Social Media - Non-Tech / Random - Videos - GitHub Repos Here are some posts I’ve written in the …

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All Insights | Strategy How To Build A Robust Retirement Portfolio: A Data-Driven Approach Larry Swedroe Last Updated: November 25, 2024 Share: Larry Swedroe Last Updated: November 25, 2024 Share: Introduction to Monte Carlo simulations for Retirement Planning Retirement is a time when financial planning becomes critical—there’s less room for error once you’re no longer earning a paycheck.While mistakes during your working years can often be addressed with higher savings, …

A Conversation by Todd Craig and LeBrandon Smith Happy Hip Hop History Month! Last week writer, educator and DJ Todd Craig and cultural curator and social impact leader LeBrandon Smith kicked off their three part series parsing out this past spring’s beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, Hip Hop history in the making. We left off in the breath-holding moment just after Kendrick released “Euphoria” and “6:16 in LA” after …

On a recent parabolic flight, ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański tested a novel robotic gripper that could grapple space debris or gently grasp a living plant.

I’ve been blogging longer than I’ve been on social media. While posts here go back to 2008, I started writing online around 1997 and it took me a while to realize I could migrate between platforms rather than start over. Other than this blog I’ve ran a few others on specific topics. Blogging is the one medium where I feel like I can be myself, online or off and for …

I’ve seen Wicked twice on stage and both times been impressed by the way the show transcends its fantastical roots to deliver a narrative about friendship, prejudice and understanding within such an unlikely premise. It’s an unapologetic musical in the truest sense. This big screen version has done a great job in upgrading the limited production available on stage to give the tale a full cinematic experience. Yet this is …

May 19 or 20, 1864. "Fredericksburg, Virginia. Burial of Federal dead. Photograph from the main Eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864." Wet plate glass negative, Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress. View full size.

This week’s theme: Lou Donaldson Memorial on Blue Note: Featured artists include Lou Donaldson, Clifford Brown, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Blue Mitchell, Herman Foster, Donald Byrd, Peck Morrison, Arthur Taylor, Dave Bailey, Ray Barrett,Sonny Clark, Curtis Fuller, George Joyner, Gene Harris, Andrew Simkins, Bill Dowdy, Horace Parlan, and moreThe post Podcast: Lou Donaldson Memorial first appeared on jazzcollector.com.

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’m pretty sure there’s a Peanuts comic strip in which Linus works out how many of each gift was given in the “Twelve Days of Christmas.” I’ve been unable to Google it, because the search results are overwhelmed by links to “A Charlie Brown …

The bacteria known as Campylobacter are a common cause of food poisoning in people. The majority of Campylobacter infections are linked to the handling and consumption of chicken meat as chickens can carry the bug in their guts and faeces. The emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is also a threat to infected patients who require antibiotic treatment as there is a risk that these medications will no longer be effective. …

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