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It was, of course, often done—but rarely said so boldly and without apology. In any case, Caldwell eventually found the eggs of the platypus (usually laid two at a time ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Jane Goodall

And Now “Superweeds” Monsanto has also created GE crops (soy, corn, canola, alfalfa, and sugar beet) that are tolerant of its own brand of herbicide, Roundup, now the most widely ...

epub |eng | 1993-01-28 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

Towered cities please us then And the busy hum of men. Several years ago I visited India on a trip sponsored by Harvard’s Natural History Museum. My colleagues delighted in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Bill Hayes

Dr. Ehrlich never actually got to view the drama within the blood. But what was to him the most likely scenario involving the most likely suspects can now be clearly ...

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I had, once again, meant for this whole essay to be numbers: a landslide of numbers, like brittle talus. But I cannot tolerate them, at present. There is a space ...

mobi |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Terri Irwin

Chapter Twelve The Crocodile Kid Stephen Robert Irwin was born in Upper Ferntree Gully, outside of Melbourne, in 1962, on his mother’s birthday, February 22. Lynette and Robert Irwin—the people ...

epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass [Bass, Rick]

July is its own month too, in addition to being a bridge between others—July is the hammock, July is a crowded West, happy people on vacation, crowded gas pumps in ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:McCalman, Iain [McCalman, Iain]

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epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Asma, Stephen T. [Asma, Stephen T.]

The monsters from the sequel Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Warner Bros.). Image courtesy of Jerry Ohlinger. Though from a very different perspective, some liberal monsterologists also see civilization hanging in ...

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epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Hoare, Philip [Hoare, Philip]

Up on the rocky headland that overlooks this spectacle, I sit alongside Marcelo on a wooden stool in his concrete cell. Silently, we watch the waves unroll. A few moments ...