Whether you are the Captain of an aircraft carrier with orders to launch an air strike, a meteorologist tracking the development and progress of an hurricane in the Caribbean, or a power company technician monitoring a natural gas pipeline, some…
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Unless the way we name hurricanes changes again you will never be hit by Hurricane Quinn, Hurricane Ursula, or Hurricane Zelda. You can take those names right off the list. Since there are so few names that start with these…
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Human beings, by our very definition, are still a part of nature – as much as some of us might not like to admit it. There is no escaping that fact, no matter how technologically advanced we may be now….
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As the owners of a wholesale nursery in Oregon, we are always looking skyward to see what our gifts will be. Longer warmth into the fall and our growing season is extended. Early cold and it is stunted. Too much…
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The following is a troubleshooting guide to the most common problems encountered when trying to view specimens with a compound microscope. There are many reasons why someone using a compound scope may have difficulty seeing the specimen. Once the microscope…
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BY ANY OTHER NAME Year after year us weather hounds watch the hurricanes come blowing though the different parts of the globe. We hear the alphabet of names start on “A” and run the gamut until the end of the…
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Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. They accomplish their infection and propagation with two cycles that work in concert: the lytic cycle and the lysogenic cycle. These life cycles are the driving force for the spread of bacteriophage infection. LYTIC…
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How the human race will truly end. The rate of which people are being born is higher then the rate of which people are dieing, all due to the fact that people are having more coitus, because it is deemed…
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Global warming, like so many other things in today’s topic list, is controversial. People go both ways saying it is and isn’t true. Then once you’ve been convinced either way the debate gets deeper. If you choose to believe it…
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One of nature’s most beautiful sights and known as a living museum that holds thousands of years of marine history is the coral reef. But what exactly is a Coral Reef? Having been formed more than 50 million years ago…
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