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POPSInsects Like Mammals Use Vision Rather Than Touch "Scientists have shown for the first time that insects, like mammals, use vision rather than touch to find footholds. They made the discovery thanks to high-speed video cameras - technology the BBC uses to capture its stunning wildlife footage - that they used to film desert locusts stepping along the rungs of a miniature ladder."
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POPSSunshine - Sparklehorse "there will come a time gigantic waves will crush the junk that I have saved when the moon explodes or floats away I'll lose the souvenirs I saved la la la"
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POPSThe Killer Tomatoes Have Returned Tomato plants -- as well as other veggie plants -- can trap small insects in those sticky hairs, and (I'm imagining, because the story doesn't say) holds them captive until they die. Then the plant can absorb the nutrients the insects give off as the bugs decay. When the insect is just a shell, it falls to the soil. I will never underestimate my vegetables again. I think they're watching me.
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POPSWinter Bird Feeding Provide cover. Birds need shelter from harsh conditions, and vegetation in your yard will help to furnish it. Don’t prune back dead vegetation like vines and stalks – these provide both valuable winter cover and nesting material for birds in the spring. Balconies have a special opportunity to attract nesting birds as they provide great shelter. Add habitat in your backyard in the form of a brush pile, which may attract foraging birds and mammals, and even over-wintering reptiles, amphibians and insects.
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POPSCrying Over Dead Trees - How Ignorant!!!!
My comment begins in the clip... it finishes here... I never thought I could BE an emotional hippie and it is something I wouldn't do in a group - but the emotions these people are expressing is no less than what I felt, when that jungle that "had been my friend and a friend to the native wildlife" that I loved, got decimated. No wonder the earth is as "in a state of crisis as it is" we really don't care, we are so "disconnected" to the life force that flows through the natural habitats of not just one species (human) but millions bacteria, insects, minerals, trees, animals in all their sub groups. I AM angered by "human belief" that we are the most important species on this planet and no other life form matters as long as humans survive. I would gladly leave this planet, if all I had to look forward to was humans, humans and more humans and their neurotic pets, all the neuroses, psychoses, their lack of harmony within themselves and hence the planet - Give me an "injectio
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POPSMen No Longer needed to Create Sperm OOOpsie! No wonder George W. and all those (male) church elders didn't like stem-cell research. But, don't worry, guys. If you'uns will just act right and clean up your own messes (including straightening out the more clueless of your sex), women will still love ya and want you around.
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POPSLadyBug Lore At one time, doctors would mash up ladybugs and put them in a cavity to cure a toothache. Some people believe that the number of spots on a ladybug indicates how many children you will have If you find a ladybug in your house in the winter you will have good luck.
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POPSFall colors fade in U.S. west as Aspen Trees die
Dale Bartos, aspen ecologist with the Rocky Mountain Research Station, is cautious about using climate-based forecasts to predict an end to aspen. "I see aspen moving up and down the hillsides with climate change," he said. "As it dries out, we may see aspen on the lower end move up the hill. I don't think the answer is cut and dried." Others foresee a grim outlook for a tree long associated with the appeal of the West. "What we think will happen is that aspen will disappear in some areas and there will not be anything we can do about it," said SAD expert Wayne Shepperd. A study by the federal Rocky Mountain Research Station presented just such a scenario. It predicted the near total disappearance of aspen in the Rocky Mountain region by 2090. The research, to be published in Forest Ecology and Management, concludes that up to 41 percent of Western forests would be unable to support aspen by 2030. That figure would rise to 75 percent by 2060 and as much as 94 percent
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