If you care about flowers for the pollinators, supporting ecological biodiversity, clean water and air, healthy soil, low-maintenance landscaping, or climate change, native plants are you allies! This is a bit of background, a look at invasives, and some how-to's.
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This is a deeper dive into carpenter bee ecology, supplemented by first-hand observations and my own speculations. We look at native flowering cycles in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, remember the American chestnut, and consider the resources for climate change offered by such a widely adaptable generalist pollinator as the carpenter bee. More deeply, we acknowledge the transformative power in relating with a bee-ing for its own sake.
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This is a master teaching about the adamantine particles, the smallest irreducible particles of matter, which quantum physics calls the Higgs boson and popular culture has dubbed "the God particle."It is a cornerstone of cosmology and will form the basis of much of my map-making work.
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Okay, so I'm kind of obsessed with the fourth dimension. Neil deGrasse Tyson has some fascinating things to say on the subject.
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