Pumpkin Autumn wallpaper
A One-Ton Pumpkin?
You can almost see them grow – 35 pounds a day during the height of the season. It can take a village to pick a pumpkin these days, or lots of friends with heavy equipment. For members of the Southern New England Giant Pumpkin Growers Association, for whom fall [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Pumpkin Autumn wallpaper, Super Whopper Pumpkins, Planning important for wind turbines
Posted in Environment-Energy, News, Society & Culture on October 30, 2007 | Comments Off
Nebula wallpaper, Supermassive black holes found, Rare population of grey-shanked doucs found
Posted in Environment-wildlife, History, News, Science on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
NGC 604 in the Triangulum galaxy M33 wallpaper. Or simply nebula wallpaper. Not a new discovery; Giovanni Batista Hodierna discovered it some time before 1654. The it was discovered again by Charles Messier in 1764, assigning the M33 designation in August 25. While William Herschel discovered M33 on September 11, 1784. I’m putting up the [...]
Beautiful Jellyfish wallpaper, Quick notes on Cnidaria, Scientists denounce Whitehouse
Posted in Environment-wildlife, News, Science on October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Beautiful Jellyfish wallpaper
Jellyfish lack spines. That doesn’t mean they’re not brave just that they’re invertebrates. They belong to the Phylum Cnidaria, Class Scyphozoa. Like many common names for critters jellyfish is something of a misnomer as they are not in any way true fish. They not exotic either. You don’t have to go to [...]
Alaska Fall Tundra wallpaper, Some butterfly wing secrets revealed, 16,300 species threatened
Posted in Environment-wildlife, News, Science, Society & Culture, Tech on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Alaska Fall Tundra wallpaper
Secrets Behind Butterfly Wing Patterns Uncovered
The genes that make a fruit fly’s eyes red also produce red wing patterns in the Heliconius butterfly found in South and Central America, finds a new study by a UC Irvine entomologist.
Within one species of the butterfly genus Heliconius, more than 20 distinct wing [...]
Dew on Moss wallpaper, Madagacar in Peril, Is your furniture making you sick
Posted in Environment-General, Health, News, Politics, Society & Culture on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dew on Moss wallpaper
Mosses (Bryophytes) are non-vascular plants. They don’t go to all the bother of producing seeds or even flowers for that matter, but rather reproduce by spores.
CNN has been doing a series of reports called Planet in Peril. The one on Madagascar is here with a report by Jeff Corwin who joins [...]
