December 2011
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November 2011
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Stop it, Stop it
None of this pot shit
Everybody know I’m a mother fuckin’...
– Lobster (via noonemanshouldhaveallthatflour)
Yet, when we read of his [Darwin’s] personal struggle to understand, the breadth...
– Stephen J. Gould, “Darwin’s Middle Path” (1980)
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Experiments were conducted that examined how leaves of Vitis aestivalis, Quercus...
– Reiskind, M.H., Green, K.E., and Lounibos, L.P. 2008. Leaf species composition and identity affect performance and oviposition choice of two container mosquito species. Ecological Entomology.
What it takes to come alive
– Rhi-Rhi
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October 2011
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"variation" is one of the neatest concepts...
variation late 14c., from O.Fr. variation, from L. variationem (nom. variatio) “a difference, variation, change,” from variatus, pp. of variare ”to change” (see vary). The musical sense is attested from 1801.
Microbial artwork →
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Moreover, if your view is limited to a small space, many objects possess beauty.
– Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
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Boria Sax, animals in literature →
September 2011
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When you’re young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to...
– Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics
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This feeling, an inexplicable renewal of enthusiasm after storytelling, is...
– Barry Lopez
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more...
– Pablo Picasso
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