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somewhat cute coin purse
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This is such a gorgeous shot.
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Month: July 2006
I was walking in the park behind the house today and, just growing in a little scrubby patch, found a sunflower and a hemp plant. Both of them are probably growing from seed I put out for the birds.
I’m slightly suprised that no bored local youth has taken the hemp plant for personal use. Don’t the young people of today learn any botany in school? I shouldn’t think birdseed cannabis is the connoiseur’s choice, but I shouldn’t think many South London teens are especially fussy.
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Geeky but somehow admirable. via Core77
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Non-news story of the week
From the BBC: “A cloned human would probably consider themselves to be an individual, a study suggests.”
Well duh.
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via Arts & Letters Daily. Check out the slideshow
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Dredgers! The quarry lorries of the sea.
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via via negativa
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A mayfly hatch on radar. via Pharyngula
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beetle
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globes
Sherry mentioned my wasp nest on her blog and via the comments was revealed this hand-made hornet’s nest by papermaker Gin Petty. You can read her full account of making it here.
And browsing around Flickr I found these pictures by Andrew Dill of a wasp nest built on a window:
Here’s something I learned today. ‘Hymenoptera’ (i.e. bees, wasps and ants) are not called that because of all those virgin workers, as I’d always vaguely assumed. Rather it’s
from Greek humenopteros ‘membrane-winged,’ from humēn ‘membrane’ + pteron ‘wing.’
Which perhaps I should have realised, since Hymen wasn’t god of virginity but marriage.
And here’s a good word: haplo-diploid.