University of Northern Iowa
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2010
Viewed up close, the sloth appears as a hallucination, an ecosystem unto itself that softly vibrates with hundreds of exoparasites.spirulina The animal’s mottled appearance is due in part to a blue-green alga that lives symbiotically within its hollow hairs.
Symbiotic Sloths
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2010
Healing Our Planet, Healing Ourselves is an ambitious collection of powerful ideas from some of the most advanced thinkers of our generation. In a series of interwoven essays and interviews, it explores the link between our individual wellness and the overall health of our ecosystems and planet, showing that they are inextricably linked. The thirty [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2010
Sea slug surprise: It’s half-plant, half-animal – LiveScience- msnbc.com
Posted in Medicinal Plants on Jan 6th, 2010
Eating pomegranates or drinking pomegranate juice may help prevent and slow the growth of some types of breast cancer.A new study shows a group of phytochemicals called ellagitannins found in abundance in pomegranates inhibited the growth of estrogen-responsive breast cancer in laboratory tests.
Pomegranates May Stall Breast Cancer « Biosingularity
