Wordless Wednesday: Autumn & Agriculture

post from Urban Science Adventures! © on 07 October 2009 01:05:00 AM. © Urban Science Adventures! ©

Autumn is harvest time and perfect time for us all to reflect on the importance of agriculture, especially us city-dwellers. Though the city has a lot of exciting amenities, we still depend on agriculture for our food needs; and agriculture is still a mostly rural activity. However, there are some great efforts to shift some food production to urban areas; and I am in support of that.

In the meantime, enjoy my autumn & agriculture adventures.

From the Best of Missouri Markets at the Missouri Botanical Garden Pumpkins for decorating.
cute baby calves.

B&B - the Animal Science Club for college students. Yes, I was member of my college chapter many moons, ago. Go Aggies!

Standing next to a Guernsey Dairy cow.
Read more about my Farm-tastic adventures at the Best of Missouri Market here.

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Mrs. Boyd's Garden her cabbage

her cucumbers - which we ate.
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My mom's bounty. Moving to Racine from Memphis was great for my mom's gardening efforts. For years, the squirrels ate everything. Now she has a pretty good harvest.
Red and purple Chili peppers. These can be eaten fresh or dried.

Yellow, red, and green tomatoes.

Snap beans and green tomatoes. Yes, we had fried green tomatoes - my mom makes the best.

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The Cackling Grackle Migration

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 07 October 2009 01:01:00 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

What's a bird to do when the weather turns cool and fall foliage begins to drop? For many species of birds, the answer is to migrate south for the winter! I was at work one cool, gray morning when I heard a harsh chirping outside the window. I saw a few dozen black birds hopping ar

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Home Renovation for Newbies, Part 1: Don't
Panic

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 07 October 2009 01:01:00 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

My husband and I recently purchased our first home. Upon first glance, we knew it would be a bit of a fixer-upper; for instance, we knew that we'd need to replace the furnace and hot water heater, so we adjusted our offer to reflect that. But until we got in the house and started working on

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Dungeons & Dragons: Geeky Fun or Gateway to
Hell (Part 2)

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In addition to extreme "geekiness", Dungeons & Dragons has been linked to psychological instability, suicide, and cultism. The rumors surrounding D&D, a game still popular with many engineering students, caused something of a moral panic in the 1980s. The origin of this hysteria began wit

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Cool Cars: The Baja Bronco

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Ford's first sport-utility vehicle got a lot of exposure thanks to Bill Stroppe's racing efforts in the Ford Bronco in the late 1960s. To commemorate the success, Ford in 1971 began offering the Baja Bronco, a "limited production duplicate" of Stroppe's racing Broncos. Ford painted the

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Changing Their Stars: Third World Women and
Microcredit

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In 2006 Muhammad Yunus and the bank he founded, Grameen Bank, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below." The success of Yunus and Grameen Bank would have been impossible without the hard working, impoverished women of Bangladesh.

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you can hear einsteins ghost weep

Two of my favorite things about blogging are reading comments and talking to my readers, especially when it leads to a fun and engaging debate. However, some of the replies I get just beg for the kind of response that can only be done in a full blown[...]

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2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Ribosome

The winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry have been announced, and the prize will be shared equally between Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz, and Ada Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome." The information encoded in DNA is decoded to produce functional proteins in two stages: transcription (DNA --> RNA) and translation (RNA --> protein). This prize was awarded for the work that described this second stage in atomic detail, and you can read more about it in the scientific background document released with the prize announcement. This prize complements the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which was awarded for atomic-resolution work on transcription (although the transcription prize was specifically for work on eukaryotes, and the work recognized by the translation prize was carried out on prokaryotes).

This prize marks the sixth time in eight years that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for biological work, and most of these have been for atomic-resolution structural biological work (X-ray crystallography in three cases, NMR in one). As I've noted before, crystallography and NMR involve a mix of biology, chemistry, and physics, so it's reasonable that such work is often recognized by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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