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Posts Tagged: LASER
When Science and Art Meet
When entomologist Diane Ulman, professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, and self-described rock artist Donna Billick of...
Jonas Salk (1914-1995), who discovered the polio vaccine in 1955, speaks to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1988. (CDC Photo)
Pardon Me, But You're Eating My Relative!
If you're a sagebrush and a predator (such as a grasshopper) is eating your nearby kin, another sagebrush, it's good to be closely related....
Ecologist Rick Karban with sagebrush.
Linking Art with Science
So, you want to know more about butterflies and art, and the link between art and science. You’re in luck. Butterfly expert Art Shapiro,...
Butterfly expert Art Shapiro of UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gulf Fritillary butterfly on passion flower blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Death of a Pop Up Greenhouse
Well, it seems nature has thrown yet another monkey wrench into the garden. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed the zipper on my pop up greenhouse was torn from the seams. So of course, I set about patching it. When that was done, I zipped the inner screen closed wondering how much abuse from the wind, myself, and the cats this thing was built to take. Only then did I realize I'd forgotten to water the tropicals inside before reclosing it. Instead of chancing the zipper again so soon, I watered them through the screen, like I sometimes do.
The screen reacted to the water like it was a laser beam. It just disintegrated. As I stood there working my way up to a full blown tantrum after the work I'd just done, Jiuseppe my cat, came out of nowhere, scaled the fence, ran across the roof beam of the greenhouse and back, as if to make a really mean point, and was gone again. He split the roof clean in two. From laser beam to roof collapse, it was just a matter of seconds. Like a really rude cartoon.
