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MOVING DAY IS NEAR!
Published on 2011-10-04 15:06:00
STAY TUNED...I'll let you know my new url at informedbynature.org.... casey on twitter click here
Rainbow Campfire Makes You Think You're Hallucinating
Published on 2011-08-03 13:19:00
What's better than a nice, wholesome campfire in summer? Psychedelic flames! Toss 2 or 3 unopened packets of Mystical Fire into your inferno, and watch the rainbow dance around as if you were on acid. Stairway to Heaven, man, I can see the music. Outside, it looks like a bunch of little Sweet-tarts packets, but inside is a crushed mix of metal salts like strontium nitrate for red color and copper carbonate for blue color--the metal makes the hue, and the salt changes the flame temperature. But
Genetic Study Complicates a Classic Case of Mimicry
Published on 2011-07-29 16:12:00
It's hard to believe that these 3 Heliconius butterflies are completely different species. They have very similar wing shape, color, and patterns, and are all perched on passion flower vines, their food source and a cozy place to lay their eggs. Heliconius have a good reason for resembling each other: predators know that bright butterflies make a really foul-tasting meal (the good-tasting ones just mimic the bad-tasting ones so they won't get eaten.) Evolutionary biologists have studied Heliconi
