“The BULRUSH in the plate, is cut by chair makers to form the seats of chairs, as it is both springy and strong enough to take a good deal of wear, and it is also used by coop¬ ers, who put it at the seams of their casks, to fill up the space which they allow for the ...
Chapter Five opens with the fateful year 1859, the death of Humboldt (and so the pass- ing of an era), Darwin's challenge, the laying of the cornerstone of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (which Agassiz hoped would hold the answers to Darwin), and the plans for a natural ...
She said we were cute enough to eat, now we're in the fruit basket? [votes: 4] Vicki R Honorable Mentions Which side of a Jack Russell has the most spots? The outside! [votes: 3] Waiter, there're Jacks in my soup... [votes: 3] Jokes on them...we ate the grapes and they...
It reminds me of a dark version of one of those still life paintings of fruit in a bowl. Sitting on the panga while they hauled in their longlines was a tough gig. 1400 hooks. Four km of lines. Seven tiny sharks. One empty ocean. Not such a pretty picture. Support ocean conservation...
I discovered SMTM through its fascinatingdiscussions of scurvyandcitrus-fruit taxonomy. But what’s really been absorbing me recently is a series of twenty long, detailed posts under the banner “A Chemical Hunger“, in which the author contests that the principle cause of the modern obesity epid...