algae

Here's an interesting conundrum. I happened across a BBC Horizon documentary dated 2001 entitled, "The Killer Algae". eGcpjeuHvBQ It unrolls as a mystery story, with lots of creepy music, creepy CG and and hyperbole from the instigator of the plot, one Alexandre Meinesz. He dived in the...

When my father passed away in December, I inherited, among other things, his microscope. Lately, I've been going out and collecting bits of gutter water, moss, lichen, and such; mixing it together, and then looking at random drops of it through this microscope. Just last night, I felt...

Quick question - I've been googling around and trying to find out the relative proportions of different forms of plankton. What I really want to know is what proportion of them are photosynthetic - or to be slightly more honest, was I talking porkies when I said to a friend; "They're mostly...

Take a look at: youtube.com/watch?v=_ToojK_MJd0&feature=related (as a new member I cannot post the complete url address so you’ll have to add the missing prefix. Hopefully someone will repost with complete link.) Valcent Products Incorporated is now a penny stock trading publicly on the...

Okay, here is a solution to global warming I dreamed up when I was a grade school student. It is a very rough idea but I think there might be something to it and I am surprised I have never heard anything like it in the media. I am hoping to toss it out to those many a wiser than me in the JREF...

http://http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20061127/sc_space/galacticbabyboominfluencedlifeonearth An interesting article. It seems that studying cosmic rays and their effects on genes will help us go a long way towards understanding how life on Earth made the leap from bacteria and algae into more...