Monday, April 10, 2006
It's finals. Finals are lame. I had forgotten. everyone makes a big deal out of how lazy college students are and how easy they have it, but I think teaching school was easier than attending it. At work, doing a good job was good enough. There wasn't this abstract pressure to be doing a better job than everyone else around you.
nugget from studying: trees talk (or listen) to each other and to mites.
damage to sagebrush releases volatile methyl jasmonate into the air. nearby plants (not just sagebrush) show increased levels of defensive chemicals (toxic phenolic compounds) in their leaves even though they are undamaged.
an attack of herbivorous spider mites on a lima bean plant triggers the release of another volatile phenol as well. this chemical not only attracts a species of mite that preys on the spider mites, but also causes the spider mites to disperse in anticipation of predatory mites.
volatile means readily vaporizes at low temperature
nugget from studying: trees talk (or listen) to each other and to mites.
damage to sagebrush releases volatile methyl jasmonate into the air. nearby plants (not just sagebrush) show increased levels of defensive chemicals (toxic phenolic compounds) in their leaves even though they are undamaged.
an attack of herbivorous spider mites on a lima bean plant triggers the release of another volatile phenol as well. this chemical not only attracts a species of mite that preys on the spider mites, but also causes the spider mites to disperse in anticipation of predatory mites.
volatile means readily vaporizes at low temperature
# posted by 8yearoldsdude @ 6:20 PM 
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I always thought that when women engaged in nonverbal communication, the message was "might." Now I understand that what they really wanted were mites. Also, I have heard that Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush are all volatile -- perhaps they decided to put their heads together on a skiing trip. That would explain alot.
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