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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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Seed of hope - a Valentine reading by the Trevor Romain (2-8-2008)
¡§Do you think anything can grow in this dirt?¡¨ I said, letting the soil trickle through my fingers.
¡§No,¡¨ said the boy.
¡§But, if you dig a little hole right here and plant a seed in the hole, will it grow?¡¨ ¡§No.¡¨ said the boy, bluntly. ¡§Nothing can grow in this dust.¡¨
¡§How about if you water the seed and take care of it every day?¡¨
¡§It will grow,¡¨ said the boy, smiling sheepishly. » read more |
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Valentine - be a tree hugger by the Gardener (2-1-2008)
Flowers cut from branches.
Branches cut from trees.
Trees cut off soil,
Sliced into little cards with pink hearts.
How long since we starting caring each other?
Why do we dedicate one day a year to love?
and the other 364 to fight? » read more
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Garden in the dark by the Gardener (1-31-2008)
I did met a blind lady in Nankang once.
It was in the garden of the courtyard.
Where I saw her touching a petunia.
She had black hair and a pink scarf. » read more
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A Felicitation by Venkatraman Kasiviswanathan (12-16-2007)
I am really happy about my interaction with such a soft-natured and tender-hearted professor. What I liked most is the humor and mischief in you, the genuine break-fast and coffee-break. When I find in you the disappearance of indomitable trait ¡§Aggressiveness¡¨, I must appreciate your parents for their technology in knocking out that traditional gene¡@» read more
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Flower watching : skunk cabbage (Veratrum californicum) by Wei-chin Chang (10-05-2007)
Each Fourth of July Parade, students and stuff of the Rocky Mountain Biology Laboratory, Crested Butte, Colorado, always make consumes of local skunk cabbage (Veratrum californicum), its pleated leaves becoming skirts, hats and halter tops (source). But it¡¦s a poisonous plant.¡@» read more |
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Place a flower for Luciano Pavarotti who brought a piece of heaven to us. by Wei-chin Chang (09-18-2007)
The opera will go on but in heaven.Website ¡§Online Memorial Tribute¡¨ prepared 12 flower images allowing people to place a flower in memory of Luciano Pavarotti.
I witnessed a concert he gave in Taipei and always have been a fan of his. He touched my life. But I prefer to place an exotic Showy Lady¡¦s-slipper(Cypripedium reginae)
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