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Geology: Hudson River Valley Pictorial

Original post by @agmoore

Bear Hill Preserve on the Shawangunk Ridge, in New York State. For those who have never visited the mountain regions of New York State, this pictorial will be an eye-opener. Most people have heard of the Sierra Nevada in California, Bear Hill Preserve on the Shawangunk Ridge, in New York State. For those who have never visited the mountain regions of New York State, this pictorial will be an eye-opener. Most ...

Ecology: *Trifolium* and its billions of helpers: A holiday themed nitrogen festival

Original post by @effofex

This tiny plant has been our helper for millennia and I was inspired today to go out, take a sample, and get a few close-up images on my dissecting scope. Can you guess what this is?

I adore the water drop here, magnification ~ 13x. . A digression into hydrophobicity As the title hints at, Trifolium spp. has many tiny and large friends, and they're the ones I want to write about, but I can't just gloss over the gorgeous little water drop. A lot of times when you're exploring the natural world stuff other than what you were looking for crops up and if you keep your eyes open, you can see some wonderful things. The water droplet was a side effect of me washing some dirt off the le...

Archeology: History of Medicine: medicine of the extinct archaic cultures. Medicine of ancient Egypt

Original post by @eleyda78

The Persian invasion on 539 B.C. marked the end of the Babylonian Empire but today we will go back 3,000 years to analyze the medicine of another great civilization already extinct: ancient Egypt

 

Ancient Egypt, located between deserts and all along the Nile River, fertile land that was inhabited by a hardworking, creative and very organized people, which not only made possible the construction of great monuments but also the development of a great four-thousand-year-old civilization, whose information was recorded in its monuments or in papyri, where scribes related in hieroglyphic writing everything that happened in the life...

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