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Neither fingers nor art, these projections come from Xylaria polymorpha , a saprobic fungus. It is a common inhabitant of forest and wo...

The text consists of first lines from books, alphabetized by the first word.  Distributed by the Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Geor...

Ganjifa Art from Prashant Sharma on Vimeo . The video offers glimpses of a dying traditional art form - the creation of handcrafted...

YouTube link . To learn something from this, we need to look up the etymology of "welcome" - From Middle English welcome , ...

Marine scientists this week reported finding an immense sea sponge in a marine preserve near Hawaii.  They described it this way: “It’s pr...

"At least 47 farmers in Wisconsin died from tractor rollovers from 2001 to 2010, said Cheryl Skjolaas, agriculture safety special...

Fulltext is a long read, but you can browse through the article at Texas Monthly to see what it's like to live (or vacation) in the ...

Beware of caramel apples at room temperature : "researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Food Research Institute ...

From a column at The Guardian : On a Sunday in the spring of 1981 Douglas Adams was typing a letter. "Dear Ken," he began. ...

Some readers of this blog may be unfamiliar with community gardening .  So I thought today I'd walk everyone around the Badger Prairi...

Last year I planted pipevine ( Aristolochia macrophylla ) in our back yard.  My goal was to attract the fabulously beautiful but rarely-s...

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day , from NASA: An enhanced-color view, this image covers a 350 by 750 kilometer swath across the...

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" H olidaymakers wishing to take a road trip in New Zealand should be required to take a driving test and display “T-plates” on their ...