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When some plants are attacked by sap-sucking aphids, they emit volatile compounds into the air. These volatiles serve as a defense mechanism, and in more ways than one. First, they serve to repel the aphids attacking the plant. Second, they attract the aphids natural enemies, wasps. But there’s more to that: a team from the University of Aberdeen and the James Hutton Institute show that some plants use fungi to communicate the presence of aphids, allowing those plants to emit wasp-attracting and and aphid-repelling  volatiles even before they have been physically attacked.


- jim 8-05-2013 3:01 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

object of the day du jour


- bill 8-05-2013 2:48 pm [link] [add a comment]


- dave 7-31-2013 4:16 pm [link] [3 comments]

Orchard Street Hell Hole Consumes 2 Parking Cones and a Biker
- dave 7-30-2013 3:21 pm [link] [1 ref] [5 comments]

texas in the 70s


- dave 7-27-2013 4:44 am [link] [add a comment]

fuck yeah, 66 & overcast. 


- dave 7-25-2013 8:46 pm [link] [1 comment]

mock mock. Who's there?
- bill 7-20-2013 5:05 pm [link] [1 comment]

Contents VOL. 1 NO. 1


- bill 7-16-2013 7:50 pm [link] [add a comment]

The oldest, tallest tree in NYC. Located in Alley Pond Park. Well, okay, "probably" the oldest. And the tallest that has been "carefully measured".


- jim 7-09-2013 8:06 pm [link] [add a comment]

Funny do, funny don't.
- bill 6-29-2013 8:26 pm [link] [1 comment]

yowza, i thought its been uncomfortably hot here.... 


- dave 6-28-2013 9:52 pm [link] [2 comments]


- dave 6-28-2013 5:25 pm [link] [add a comment]

aspect ratio


- mark 6-28-2013 3:05 am [link] [add a comment]

iphone users in red, android in green
- dave 6-22-2013 2:59 am [link] [1 comment]

Hey Alex look what showed up on our fire escape. Family roosing on neighboring bldg.


- mb 6-20-2013 7:40 pm [link] [4 comments]

Dave, didn't you go to school with her?


- alex 6-19-2013 10:31 pm [link] [1 comment]

2nd ave subway construction pix


- dave 6-17-2013 10:28 pm [link] [add a comment]

patton oswalt on joke thievery, heckling & rape jokes


- dave 6-16-2013 1:16 am [link] [add a comment]

venice underwater


- dave 6-16-2013 1:13 am [link] [1 ref] [2 comments]

some very bad iphone photos of Lorna's luscious show


- mb 6-15-2013 6:22 pm [link] [9 comments]

hot pink slug


- dave 6-13-2013 6:47 pm [link] [add a comment]

the irony was somewhat lost on my dentist that his story about needing to school his proctologist on bedside manner might not exactly be appropriate moments before he put his fingers in my mouth. that i gagged uncomfortably on the cotton dental rolls moments later was entirely coincidental. 


- dave 6-13-2013 6:19 pm [link] [1 ref] [2 comments]

first meal at aka my bike seat was stolen. second to last meal at alias the lights on my bike were stolen. got to hand it to the scumbags on clinton street, they are nothing if not devotees of symmetry. 


- dave 6-13-2013 3:53 am [link] [1 ref] [14 comments]

"OH NO!!!...Someone just sent me an itemized list of every phone call I've made or received,the length of the conversations,and their respective points of origin! Wait,..That's my phone bill. Nevermind."
- bill 6-11-2013 8:49 pm [link] [add a comment]

as i was riding by i just assumed there was an early hannukah sale at j & r. turns out it was a casting call for the next mel brooks zombie movie.

spoiler: the messiah did it.


- dave 6-10-2013 4:53 pm [link] [2 comments]