Guildwood tour opens eyes to scale of ash-borer threat

Source: Inside Toronto

People interested in Toronto's trees will be welcomed to the jungle of ash this Saturday, May 26, in Guildwood, a Scarborough subdivision where almost 80 per cent of the green canopy will be dead in five years. The emerald ash borer is spreading ...
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Activists in UK plan to trash crop experiment

Source: Ars Technica

For researchers at the UK's Rothamstead research center , the past few weeks must have felt like a train wreck in slow motion. The team engineered a strain of wheat to carry an enzyme, found in many other plant species, that will produce an aphid-repell ...
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Pep Guardiola's swansong: Copa Del Rey finals today

Source: Soccer Blogs

The world saw the genius of Leo Messi flower under Guardiola And so the coach of the Blaugrana, the one who won in his four years every title that needed to be won, appears in his final match, the Copa Del Rey fin ...
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True Love: How Do You Know?

Source: Psych Central

Years ago a psychologist by the name of Robert Sternberg came up with a pretty good explanation that is difficult to improve on. What Sternberg did was to break down true love into three parts. I will try to share them so th ...
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Do Plants Smell Other Plants? This One Does, Then Strangles What It Smells

Source: WNYC | New York Public Radio

"Plants smell," says botanist David Chamovitz. Yes, they give off odors, but that's not what Chamovitz means. He means plants can smell other plants. "Plants know when their fruit is ripe, when their [plant] neighbor has been cut by a ...
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Beekeeping Basics: Installing a Package

Source: Apartment Therapy

The moment has finally arrived! Your bee yard is set up and your hive bodies are ready. A gleaming white bee suit is awaiting its first use. You have picked up a package of bees from your local bee shop or beekee ...
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Synthetic pheromones used to help alleviate canine stress

Source: InsideHalton.com

Pheromones are naturally occurring chemicals that can trigger a social response in members of the species from which they are derived. There are alarm pheromones, food trail pheromones and sex pheromones and many others that affect behav ...
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An Ant Ballet, Choreographed By Pheromones And Robots

Source: Fact or Design

A tracing of the path that the ants are taking. Ants are daunting and fascinating. Somehow, nature has bred the archetypal society at the smallest of scales, one in which every entity knows their role and contributes to the greater good. T ...
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People will starve to death because of anti-GM zealotry

Source: The Telegraph

In 1968 Paul Ehrlich wrote in his book The Population Bomb that “mass starvation” due to “burgeoning population growth” was inevitable. “It is now too late to take action” to avoid hundreds of millions of deaths in ...
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