When did conifers first appear? When do conifers grow? What do the larvae of the moth eat? When did amphibians first appear? Do caterpillars live in the tundra biome or temperate rainforest? How do nematodes kill insects? What is the exoskeleton of a butterfly?
Sometimes referred to as bilharzias, bilharziasis, or snail fever, schistosomiasis was discovered by Theodore Bilharz, a German surgeon working in Cairo, who first identified the etiological agent Schistosoma hematobium in 1851.When did schistosomiasis first appear?The...
All mammals begin the same in the womb. ... Dolphins, for example,develop tiny leg-like limb buds during their first month in the womb, but the buds vanish within two weeks, and the animals swim in amniotic fluid for the next 11 months of gestation. What animal did dolphins evolve from?
Suppose you are told that the engineers who are asked to sign off on the safety of the launch have unanimously said, “No way can we launch today because, under the present circumstances, the launch is a live-or-die coin toss for which the astronauts did not sign up; if we launch, h...
Closer to the first day of the rest of my life. But back to being seven: I remember lying awake at night. I remember squeezing my eyes shut so tight that I would force tiny specks to appear, bright little lights that would shimmer and make me think I had dreamt up a magical place ...
Hundreds of plants, fungi, and animals can do it. Now scientists think bioluminescence may have evolved 540 million years ago in Earth’s ancient oceans.
Looking back on it, I still have to smile, because he did irresponsible things, like drown all the red worms. We gave him ONE responsibility – rebag the worms so they wouldn’t get immersed in melted ice, and he just couldn’t do it. This led to several unplanned Walmart stops. At...
The second day – the first day open to the public – was less interesting for me. With such a crush of people booking cruises and filling out entry forms for free trips, it was hard to have conversations or do business. So I did what any sane person would do. I entered every single...
Did you watch the video? It genuinely speaks for itself. But here are the steps: Launch test/fullscreen with 2 or more displays Rescale the window on at least one display so that the scaling is sufficiently different between the two displays (in the video I scaled down on the left displa...
The neighbors walk by and wonder what I am doing as they see the gardener and me dig and dig and dig and unearth more earth more dirt and soil for the worms and the birds. There is still so much grass and I am chopping away at the grass chopping away like a Sculptor chipping away...