Posts by sarcozona
Panda Plant
Panda Plant, Kalanchoe tomentosa, is a close relative of Mother of Thousands. It’s called a Panda Plant because the leaves are very very fuzzy and have red tips and they supposedly resemble panda toes. Though both pandas and Panda Plants are very cute, I do not think there is any real resemblance. Mother of Thousands […]
Mother of Thousands
I promised to show you pictures of my plants a few weeks ago. I’ve taken pictures of a few of them, but not all. The weather has been so strange here and is making picture taking difficult. This plant is a Mother of Thousands, a kind of Kalanchoe. It forms little plantlets on its leaves […]
Berry Go Round #16
I’m usually late advertising new Berry Go Round editions, and this month is a particularly good example of that – in just over a week I’ll be hosting BGR 17. Drop off your submission and then head over to Quiche Moraine for BGR 16. I enjoyed the focus on mutualism in this edition – for […]
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Science and Chronic Illness
I’ve complained about having migraines here before, but I haven’t talked much about how I expect them to affect me in the future. Part of that is because it terrifies me. As an undergraduate with classes that aren’t too challenging and teachers that don’t mind letting me make up tests, migraines don’t really hurt anything […]
Being condescending
I have a hard time talking to non-scientists about science: I assume they know more or less than they actually do – I never seem to get it just right. I think assuming they know less is a better strategy. If I assume they know more, they normally don’t even bother to ask about what […]
Still missing…
I have several posts waiting to be written (or half written) and had grand plans of finishing at least one today. Unfortunately, I’m sick again today. For the last several weeks I’ve been nauseated for several hours almost every day for no apparent reason. It isn’t bad enough to make me miserable, but it keeps […]