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In brief vignettes accompanied by her brother’s beautiful illustrations, Margaret draws attention to common occurrences happening with the birds and the squirrels, the trees and the bees, the plants and the pollinators, week by week, while also reflecting on her own life and the parallels these...
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Oh how I would like to get one done professionally, but how on earth could I do this, when on Monday – the day I had to send it – I would be looking after the children, and we wouldn’t be back in England until Saturday night. He agreed to have a go, rather grudgingly. Sunda...
The protein that they were not expecting to see in the Z-disc was myosin, which is integrated at the opposite site of the sarcomere. When a muscle is triggered to move, myosin walks along actin bringing neighboring Z-discs closer together. This sliding of actin andmyosin filamentscreates the...
I try not to fetishize where I work. All I really need is quiet and enough light to see by. When I find myself longing for a New England sea breeze I try to remind myself of this: The most consequential feature of any potential office is that I’ll be the one sitting in it. ...
Through Dad’s binoculars, we saw a fire tornado sucking flying debris into itself, while a line of advancing flames stretched as far to the east and west as we could see. Fire engine sirens wailed almost constantly, near and far that night, along the streets below us. The LAFD were ...
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Over ten years ago,a family of beavers turned up in a part of the river Otter,in Devon.No one knew exactly where they came from.It was a big surprise,wild beavers hadn't lived in England for around 400 years! In 2015,the government allowed the beavers to stay ther...
At the recent COP21 climate conference in Paris, delegates reached an agreement that plans to limit global warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius. This stems from the fact that scientists and politicians now agree: the global average temperature mus