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irstly], it should be understood that a conflict between brushed & brushless electric motor technologies had been a long-standing old trope, before the modern electric bicycle arrived on the scene. This is an old argument. Thus, the argument (or trope) actually came into being in the relative primeval mists of electrical-technology evolution. It’s a bit …
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oybean Taboo was noticeable to average people in the American sphere, no later than the early 1970s. (This will likely prove to be the case in Europe, too.) Especially the processed protein component (aka TVP Textured Vegetable Protein) that becomes available (and even a disposal problem) following grinding for the more-valuable oil-component (and its attendant …
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cientific Naming Follies is one of an ecosystem of systemic social & psychological diseases of the institution of science, and its associated individual temperaments. Lumpers vs Spltters is the old term for a high-profile struggle that marred earlier stages of Science. Some workers thought variations on a theme of animal or plant species (and other …
dible Pod Radish makes an enlarged, succulent, crunchy pod, in the same fashion as green-beans and snap-peas. The tip of the pod tapers to a fine point, giving it a fanciful resemblance to a rat-tail … a name by which it was formerly found in seed-catalogs etc, but is now not often seen. Seed-pod vegetables …
Jet Assisted Take-Off units became famous on the pages of , in the course of their photo-coverage of Antarctic cargo-plane supply-operations. Are there JATO-units for small aircraft such as the Super Cub? For example to get off a short airstrip with a heavy load?
The term Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T), for the boundary or transition between those two geological periods, has been in use for many generations. Then one day it was unilaterally decreed, by an unelected, unaccountable and generally unknown entity or person (a Professor, or group of them), that henceforth everyone should use the term Cretaceous-Paleogene, instead. This is …
enealogy for Plants cannot readily be done with the same software that we use for human families (and which can be used for other animals, though perhaps with difficulties), for two reasons. One, many plants are self-fertile. There are flexible and variable versions of this, such as with apple trees which may require a pollinator-variety, …
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This is the book that typical and normal hikers & backpackers will want for the Olympic National Park. I bears every sign of having been a labor of love by author Robert Wood, and has been a fixture of local outdoors & tourist book-racks, since the 1980s.
ount Seattle, in , is on the west side of the between the headwaters of the to the north, and the to the south. The trails in these two river valleys, joined at the Low Divide pass, forming the primary north-south route through the Park.