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“This device is very precise, and will allow a plant to receive just the right amount of water,” said Hans-Dieter Seelig, a research associate at the University of Colorado-Boulder’s BioServe Space Technology Center, in a news release. “If a plant can tell a water valve when to open and when to close, farmers are going to save a lot of money.” With Colorado producing four leading crops of corn, wheat, hay, and potatoes, it is no wonder that their 30,000 farms and ranches and 30.7 million acres of agriculture land are able to produce about 105,000 agriculture jobs. With this in mind, it is ... Read Full Story
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Xylem and phloem course the rich sugars up and down the maple, the quenching salts, up and down the celery stalk in such vivid, bewildering array. The cartoonlike vector fields dimple and crease as the variables are adjusted and the parameters tweaked. Vascular tissue is likely impervious to the superficial effects of discrete exterior calculus and cosine transforms. It is deep, pliable, and effervescent. The rigid strands cohering the stalk face forward while the microtubules exert their force over the entire being and the entire biome. The design of image processing algorithms has become a sated undertaking. There are more designers than winnowers. There ... Read Full Story
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2 back-back interesting articles about research that has found that roots act like brains , about slime that changed its growth pattern to grow towards food. Which in an oblique way opens the mind to the possibility of holistic theory, viz., that whole extracts of plants carry intelligent information to the whole human which is why they are capable of treating the body's imbalances. Excerpted: “The tip of the root (of plants) acts like the brain of one of the lower animals,” Darwin said. Roots that act like brains? Does this mean plants have memory? Collect data, store it, interpret it, and then act ... Read Full Story
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What does Waxmyrtle mean? Waxmyrtle ( Wax Myrtle ) is also known as Southern bayberry or candleberry because early American colonists used the fruit's pale blue, waxy covering to make fragrant bayberry candles. This custom is still carried out today by crafts people here and in other countries. Read Full Story
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As a new area in the Department of Art and Art History, Art and Ecology creates a signature discipline for the University of New Mexico. Building from the successful Land Arts of the American West program, Art and Ecology provides a full curriculum based on the environments and communities of the southwest. Courses are designed to further students' understanding of representation, land use, ecology, and classic Land Art in the Southwest. Art...  
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The Most Important Book of Our Time In this tour de force of scholarship and vision, Ken Wilber traces the course of evolution from matter to life to mind and describes the common patterns that evolution takes in all three of ... “Galaxies gave away their ingenious ideas and told us of their private body functions. So man, too, eats, burps and excretes more worlds. How is it that invisible thoughts can lift heavy matter and build cities and...  
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The planet has a fever and how we cool it down is the challenge of the century. How do we start? According to advocates of a branch of scientific techniques known as geo-engineering, the only approach is to think big and change the planet's ecosystem before it changes us. Are we ready for these four scientific experiments on a truly global scale? More on Green Technology  
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Modifications enforcing a cleaner burn inside the engine. The result is a reduced carbon footprint exiting your engineGlendale,CA,USA -Engine Ecology (PR), by Dan Renner -18 Nov 2009: ... Engine Ecology brings about greenhouse gas pollution reduction very simply with our engine air intake system modifications... Burn more fuel inside of your engine rather than spitting it out of your exhaust with Engine Ecology's modifications to your...  
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ANN ARBOR, Michigan — The Ecology Center's latest testing of children's toys and apparel is still finding lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic and other harmful chemicals in items on store shelves.For the past two years the annual toy test results have...  
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