The mystery of the ‘ghost trees’ may be solved – SFGate Redwoods can also clone themselves, further complicating scientists’ understanding of them. Vast rings of related plants communicate via their roots, and during the hard months of winter and early spring, they’ll distribute nutrients evenly among themselves. Scientists have spilled dye onto trees at one […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-09-25
Size Matters – Futility Closet Olives counting 120-135 olives per pound: Standard Olives counting 105-120 olives per pound: Medium Olives counting 90-105 olives per pound: Large Olives counting 75-90 olives per pound: Extra Large Olives counting 65-75 olives per pound: Mammoth Olives counting 55-65 olives per pound: Colossal Olives counting 45-55 olives per pound: Giant […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-09-18
Welcome to the Dark Net, a Wilderness Where Invisible World Wars Are F | Vanity Fair , Look, we’re in the Internet business. We know we’re going to get hacked. We have to assume, always, that our network is already owned. It is important to go slowly and stay calm. We will soon know how […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-09-11
Teen Sues Parents for Posting Childhood Photos on Facebook | Mental Floss But it led to legal trouble for one Austrian couple when their 18-year-old daughter slapped them with a lawsuit for refusing to remove hundreds of embarrassing baby photos, The Local reports. The teen, whose name has not been released to the public, claims […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-09-04
The Myth of the Millennial as Cultural Rebel | New Republic Fusion’s Patrick Hogan counted 47 institutions and industries that millennials have been accused of destroying so far, including credit, car culture, the American Dream, relationships, and golf. Of course, in each of these cases, there is a real story to be told: Yes, young […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-08-28
Sent From My iPhone: how a humblebrag became a key piece of net etiquette | Technology | The Guardian And it works. The researchers Caleb T Carr and Chad Stefaniak found in their paper Sent From My iPhone: The Medium and Message as Cues of Sender Professionalism in Mobile Telephony that those receiving a message […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-08-21
Your drain on drugs: Meth seeps into Baltimore’s streams – CNN.com Here’s why: These plants and bugs are the base of the aquatic food web. Birds eat the bugs, as do frogs and fish. As emergent contaminants such as pharmaceuticals and endocrine disruptors become more common in ground and drinking water, they could affect humans. […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-08-14
Walmart’s Out-of-Control Crime Problem Is Driving Police Crazy To cut down on calls to police, Walmart has been rolling out a program where first-time offenders caught stealing merchandise below a certain value can avoid arrest if they agree to go through a theft-prevention program. At some higher-crime stores, the company is also hiring off-duty police […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-08-07
Amazon’s Interesting Finds/Prehistoric Invertebrates/Fraudster Calls / Boing Boing TIP: Any bones or skulls you collect can be whitened up without using chlorine bleach, which can weaken the bone. Use concentration hydrogen peroxide, which will fizz and brighten bone to a brilliant white very quickly. You need stronger stuff than the dilute peroxide found in drug […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-07-31
Ten Theses In Support of Teaching and Against Learning Outcomes | Jeff Noonan: Interventions and Evocations Lots of good stuff in here. “awakening in students a desire to think by revealing to them the questionability of things” h/t Amy Collier On extraordinariness — Code for America Blog — Medium I’m not a fan of the […]