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IPMB Science Features
Focusing on blogging personality, driven life and perspectives |
| IPMB science features are a platform that allow our colleagues and readers to post their thoughts on recent developments and ideas in their corner of their sciences. As a new site feature, these will grow and develop into living, breathing areas for the exchange of links, thoughts, and information. As time goes on, we'll be adding new features, blogs, and authors/bloggers, so come back often to find out what our bloggers are up to! |
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An Indian cattle egret enjoyed our front yard
by Wei-chin Chang (11-7-2005)
I was weeding in the flower bed of our front yard around noon last Friday. An Indian cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis conromandus) did a graceful landing five meters away right on a rock surround with flowers. This is the second time egrets appeared in our website. » read more |
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The last farmer of Nankang
by Wei-chin Chang (10-10-2005) |
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| Wen-chin Li (李文進), at that time about 69 in age, a veteran rice grower of our institute, handled a power tiller to prepare the ground for planting rice seedlings. Four Indian cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis conromandus) around seemed not affected by the machine noise ... » read more |
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Amazing beauty of fine structures
by Wann-Neng Jane (9-28-2005) |
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Living things are made up one or more cells, Dr Jane shows us here couples of really nice visualizations of all sorts fine structures of the nanoworld through his microscopes. An image gallery will be constructed in his in-charged Plant Cell Biology Center soon.
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| Any botany blog out there? |
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| "What is a blog anyway?" L (not that one who bakes sequoia) e-mailed me complaining Word and Powerpoint refuse to accept "blog" as a correct word. She noticed that I have put a BLOG column on our new homepage. ... » read more |
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Born free - save the sequoia
by Wei-chin Chang (8-16-2005) |
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Each time I passed by them, I sensed their quest for sunshine and cool breeze.
... Gee, just because they came from your test tubes, there is no reason to bake them.
... Do we really need the stainless tree?
... you just shut up! Let our lady do what ever she wants!
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Pollination in Barringtonia by Chih-Hua Tsou (8-16-2005)
"What a beautiful flowers and pictures!" "Would you print a copy for me?" These are nice responses from colleagues who started watching our web. Lady Tsou went to Germany to attend Botanical Congress couple of week ago ... » read more |
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A bamboo journey with high school elite students
by Wei-chin Chang (8-16-2005)
Webmaster Chang blogs what he saw, and people he met in a recent Summer camp for high school kids. A plant physiologist, especially plant tissue culture, and also a Mac geek in-charge of our institute computing service, will blog several essays on institute historical events soon. » read more |
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A journey to macrofungi
by Yu-ming Ju (8-15-2005)
Our resident microbial hunter blogs what he saw deeply in the woods, ...share his natural photos with us. He may give us another blog on what he collected in Hawaii couple of weeks ago. Check his lab web, know what he is doing, and also view his fungi website. » read more |
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