When coming back from lunch this afternoon, I happened to notice this moth on the wall just outside the building where I work in Northwest New Mexico . Is this a cottonwood sphinx? That’s what the local biologist said it was, but I cannot find any information on a “cottonwood” sphinx...
What country gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991? What countries were colonized during New Imperialism? What was the last Central American country to gain independence? What happened in Angola and Mozambique after independence? What kind of government did Brazil have after independence?
Interestingly, event schemata can vary widely among different cultures and countries. For example, while it is quite common for people to greet one another with a handshake in the United States, in Tibet, you greet someone by sticking your tongue out at them, and in Belize, you bump fists ...
“We’ve got so many details with this site that tell us what happened moment by moment, it’s almost like watching it play out in the movies. You look at the rock column, you look at the fossils there, and it brings you back to that day,” Robert DePalma, the University of Manche...
Your life is organized like an orbit. I know. 了解了这点,就知道为何四年于相隔千里的我们,似乎只是弹指一挥间而已。 我其实了解小女儿的心理,是希望多一点surprise多一点romantic多一点傻里吧唧的指天划地的。可惜我这方面的才能似乎多用在0,1组成的无机世界里了,于是只能委屈她了。大多数的时间,她就一...
Lifestyle Inflation at work: A curious thing happened when I was “living the life” in Toronto. Having crossed over into the six-figure income bracket, I didn’t seem to actually be taking home any more money or enjoying a substantially higher quality of life than when I earned half as...
as yer virus protection, let me relate what happened to me once: They informed me of a new version and so I downloaded it, followed all of their requirements to the letter, but had problems getting it to work correctly (I seem to recall that I kept getting an error message stating it...
it is therefore possible to analyze the enrichment of functional pathways in groups of species that have undergone independent transitions to similar diets. For example, transitions to frugivory occurred in two bat families, the Phyllostomidae and Pteropodidae, independent radiations that happened over...