The July-August UGJ is at the printer and should be beginning circulation this weekend, if all goes according to plan. Today’s ETTGpro will be short. Here is this week’s news:
- Here is a somewhat bizarre piece about a parasitic flower that steals not just nutrients but actual DNA from its host, from Scientific American.
- Local science-y web journalist @dragonflyeye explains: “Blue-green algae is not algae. Its bacteria. But it photosynthesizes. Confused, yet?“
- The Port Gamble S’klallam Tribe, whose ancestral land is in the same location, has purchased Heronswood Gardens and Nursery and has pledged to preserve the landscape. Via Yahoo! Finance.
- Here is a sneak peek at the Cornell Plantations 2012 Fall Lecture Series. I try (try!) to get to all of them, but am probably most looking forward to Robert Raguso’s Whispering willows and lying lillies: the chemical dialogues of plant behavior, October 24.
- I went to the Herb & Flower Fest at Oneida County Cornell Cooperative Extension last Saturday, and it was a really neat event. Unfortunately we got rained out a little early, but it was fun to get to talk to some Utica-area folks I rarely see.
The skies were angry
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