Archive for March 2011

Seedless Cherimoya

This item is important because wemay just have a genetic protocol for producing seedless plants on demand. Itmay not be ready yet for prime time, but the possibility is now with us.We forget that the seedlesscultivars we do have were never anyone’s first

Using Wind to Stabilize the Grid

It appears the idea is to usesmall local energy sources such as windmills to allow islands to be cut out ofthe grid to prevent a failure mode from propagating further.  I do not see how that could work but we maypresume there is a good reason for

Importance of Old Trees

I have posted many times on theneed for forest refugia.  Here we getanother lesson.  The older trees grow mossesand these mosses actually fix nitrogen which is then dropped onto the forestfloor.In fact, proper forest husbandrymust include refugia

Chilean Mastodon

This is the first intact mastodonskull found in Chile.  Yet it is a reminder that the genus made itnot just into North America, but also into South America.The extinction of large animalsin the Northern Hemisphere can be explained by the event that

Seedless Cherimoya

This item is important because wemay just have a genetic protocol for producing seedless plants on demand. Itmay not be ready yet for prime time, but the possibility is now with us.We forget that the seedlesscultivars we do have were never anyone’s first

Using Wind to Stabilize the Grid

It appears the idea is to usesmall local energy sources such as windmills to allow islands to be cut out ofthe grid to prevent a failure mode from propagating further.  I do not see how that could work but we maypresume there is a good reason for

Importance of Old Trees

I have posted many times on theneed for forest refugia.  Here we getanother lesson.  The older trees grow mossesand these mosses actually fix nitrogen which is then dropped onto the forestfloor.In fact, proper forest husbandrymust include refugia

Chilean Mastodon

This is the first intact mastodonskull found in Chile.  Yet it is a reminder that the genus made itnot just into North America, but also into South America.The extinction of large animalsin the Northern Hemisphere can be explained by the event that