Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 51. Sunrise is 7:20 AM and sunset 5:57 PM for 10h 36m 49s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 86.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1946, a camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket [from White Sands…
Plants
Film, Nature, Plants
Film: The Life of Flowers
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Cats, Plants, Science/Nature
Friday Catblogging: ‘Nip
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[Leonora Enking, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.] Inverse has an article on The science behind catnip’s potent powers: Catnip’s pungent odor comes from a chemical called nepetalactone. It helps the plant repel insects. But this research takes us further into the evolution of nepetalactone using genetic analysis. According to study co-author Benjamin Lichman, a…