by Rick Coste | Aug 31, 2021 | Post
Captain, Governor, and Weatherman Robert Fitzroy became captain of the HMS Beagle at the ripe old age of 26. This was because the previous Captain, Pringle Stokes, had shot himself in 1828. The life of a naval captain wasn’t an easy one. The voyages away from home and...
by Rick Coste | Aug 29, 2021 | Post
What’s Stomata With You? Here’s something I bet you’ve never thought about. At least if you’re not really into the mechanics of plant biology. Did you know that plants carefully regulate the loss of water depending on humidity? They do this through small,...
by Rick Coste | Aug 28, 2021 | Post
A “Whiff” of Oxygen Ready for a whiff of oxygen that’s 2.5 billion years old? Our Earth wasn’t always the oxygen-rich planet it is today. That didn’t happen until 2.4 billion years ago. That’s the time complex organisms marched onto the scene and evolved...
by Rick Coste | Aug 23, 2021 | Podcast
A friend of mine recently posed a question on his podcast about carrion plants. If you don’t know what one is, the carrion plant emits an odor that is very similar to rotting flesh.This odor attracts flies which serve to pollinate the flower. The question posed...
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