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		<title>Charlie&#8217;s Rose</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2011/12/14/charlies-rose/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=charlies-rose</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Darwin wrote about roses in his The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, but I&#8217;m guessing he didn&#8217;t expect a variety would be named in his honour. I stumbled upon these today in the gardens of the Huntington (Library, Art Collection, Botanical Gardens) Estate in San Marino.    According to this rose dealer, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flower Atlas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This beautiful flower arrangement I stumbled upon today has got to be the world&#8217;s most colourful interpretation of the Atlas myth. In Greek mythology, the punishment meted out by Zeus to Atlas for his siding with the Titans against the Olympians was to carry the heavens on his shoulders for all time. We&#8217;re familar with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return to the Land of Charnia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[However impressive my best Bear Grylls outdoorsman pose might be, it&#8217;s nothing compared to the rocks I&#8217;m standing on. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; For this is Leicestershire&#8217;s Charnwood Forest, whose +600 million year old outcrops are some of the oldest on the planet. It&#8217;s also the area where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huxley and Tyndall,  Ill-Prepared Alpinists ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s many years since that winter weekend I met up with friends in the UK&#8217;s Lake District National Park, intent on hiking the slopes of Helvellyn. Helvellyn (Photo: Simon Ledingham, WikiCommons) We&#8217;d arrived in groups from various locations, and it was during the traditional kitting-up ritual, managed out the back of our respective vehicles, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unlikely Ink?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good few Zoonomian posts are based on things or events I just happen to stumble onto.  And that&#8217;s certainly the case with these oak galls I snapped on a trail walk this week. These hard woody growths, about 1.5 inches across, are induced by insects interfering with the oak plant&#8217;s bio-chemistry. Typically a wasp, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bit of a Stink at The Huntington</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=5732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always thought I&#8217;ll someday meet a celebrity if I visit Los Angeles often enough; I just didn&#8217;t expect it would be a plant. Meet Amorphophallus titanum, or Titan Arum, or &#8216;Corpse Flower&#8217;, or simply &#8216;Big Stinky&#8217; to it&#8217;s friends at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in Pasadena. The deal with Stinky, one of the largest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What were they thinking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just received this photograph from my good mate Sven, showing Alfred Russel Wallace&#8217;s grave and &#8216;tombstone&#8217; in Broadstone Cemetery, in Dorset. Now I know as a member of the &#8216;Carry-On&#8217; generation my sensibilities are tainted, but all the same, in the spirit of low-brow citizen scientific journalism, it&#8217;s good to see A.R. can still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Shrinkage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back to the (more) serious stuff soon.  But to finish the apple story, how scary is this? Hot on the heels of the Amazing Shrinking Head, I&#8217;ve dug this out of the archives.  Taken last year at Hampton Court Palace,  it&#8217;s an apple that has naturally dried out after someone stuck it on a spiked  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make It An Araucaria heterophylla Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s never too early to plan for next Christmas, so here is my insightful and environmentally friendly recommendation for next year&#8217;s christmas tree. Without calculating  the detailed carbon footprint of that temporarily living  piney off-cut standing beglittered in your lounge, or the plastic alternative you picked up for £20 at Woolies&#8217; terminal sale, it&#8217;s probably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Darwin Genius</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll hardly need reminding that next year is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of his best known work – On The Origin of Species. It’s already a big deal: special events, new book editions, talks, tee-shirts, diaries, calendars, and commemorative mugs &#8211; the lot.  And rightly so [...]]]></description>
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