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The flower sets man a gigantic example of insubordination, courage, perseverance and ingenuity "News of Spring" Maurice Maeterlinck, 1862 - 1949

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My neighbour, -- the preliminaries before one starts the work day

Carl Woese compared the genetic sequence of many different organisms, especially, microbes, to construct phlogenetic tree of life. He found three distinct branches of life, including the previously unrecognized Archaea. The majority of the most deeply rooted organisms are extremophiles living at high temperature

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Watch a TV documentary set in an African game park and the response of prey animals like a herd of gazelle to the presence of predators seems unbelievably strange from the human viewpoint. If a lioness is lying at the edge of the herd, watching intently, picking out a target, this fearsome predator is likely only to be eyed briefly, if nervously, but its potential victims before the gazelle return to cropping the coarse grass. We would be thinking, "I've got a problem here. That lioness could hurt me or even kill me. I think I'll sneak away, just in case. Or at least I'll make sure there's a fatter, slower gazelle between me and the lioness." But this ability to project into the future, to be aware of potential circumstances and analyze consequences, isn't present in the gazelle. It is only when the attack commences that a flight response is triggered. ~ Page 9

Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere "Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria," ~ "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air" ~ Torricelli

"There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.” ― Ed Gorman, Everybody's Somebody's Fool