I received an interesting scam email this morning from a person claiming to a representative of “Domain Registry China”. I thought I’d post it and hopefully prevent any business owners…
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This article relates to where bees prefer to build their hives. Back in the 1970s, there was a bunch of research conducted at Cornell surveying where bees build hives in…
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Sometimes missing data can tell you its own story, while other times missing data can lead you in completely the wrong direction. As I’ve been working on a PhD studying…
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One of the drawbacks of the modern domesticated tomato is the presence of a joint on the stem – this is a weak section which allows the fruit to drop.…
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An international team of researchers have recently published a paper in the journal Nature announcing that they had successfully sequenced and assembled a complete reference genome of the domesticated sunflower…
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The Argentine stem weevil is a pasture pest that has caused significant damage to crops since it was introduced to New Zealand in the 1920s. In an effort to control…
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Note: this article was published a few years ago on one of my other blogs. Striga is a parasitic weed that causes significant damage to a number of important agricultural…
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I saw this guy who works at the campus bookstore the other morning: My initial reaction was that it felt a little dehumanising to employees, but after I chatted with him (and he…
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A couple of years ago I started my PhD at the Australian National University working to quantify honeybee behaviour. We wanted to build a system that could automatically track and…
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Nothing feels as good as checking something off a to-do list. In fact, I have added completed tasks to my to-do list purely to enjoy the feeling of checking them off a moment…